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Connection Tab

The Connection Tab has the following fields:

Use Passive Mode: Indicates whether or not the FTP connection will use Passive or Active mode. Specify
Yes
to use Passive mode. Specify
No
to use Active mode. If neither value is selected, then the default mode of Active will be used.

There are two modes in FTP communications: Active and Passive.  In Active mode, the FTP server will attempt to connect back to a port on the
Managed File Transfer
FTP client in order perform the data transfer. The challenge with Active mode is that your firewall may block the FTP server from trying to open a port back into your network.   In Passive mode, the FTP server does not need to connect back to a port on the
Managed File Transfer
FTP client, which is a more firewall-friendly mode. Therefore, if you have problems with connecting to the FTP server, you may want to change the mode to Passive by selecting
Yes
for this option.
Data Connection Start Port: The starting port number to use for the data connection. This should be used when Active (non-Passive) mode is specified and there is a limited range of open ports on your firewall allowed for data connections.
Data Connection End Port: The ending port number to use for the data connection. This should be used when Active (non-Passive) mode is specified and there is a limited range of open ports on your firewall allowed for data connections.
Timeout: The number of seconds to wait when attempting to connect to the FTP server. A timeout will occur if the connection cannot be established in the specified amount of time. If left blank, the default timeout is 120 seconds.
Connection Retry Attempts: The number of times to retry the FTP connection if it cannot be established. This setting is used for both the initial connection and any reconnect attempts due to lost connections. If left blank, then no retries will be attempted.
Connection Retry Interval: The number of seconds to wait between each connection retry attempt.

For instance, if you want
Managed File Transfer
to retry the connection up to 10 times with a 5 second delay between retries, then specify 10 for the Connection Retry Attempts and 5 for the Connection Retry Interval. 
Initial Remote Directory: The initial directory to start in after connecting to the FTP server. If left blank, then the initial directory will be the home directory assigned to the user on the FTP server.
Control Encoding: If left blank,
Managed File Transfer
uses the ISO standard ISO-8859-1. If supported by the FTP server, other encodings like UTF-8 can be specified to support more international characters.
Throttle Bandwidth: Limit the inbound and outbound bandwidth used for file transfers based on the policies set on the Global Settings Bandwidth tab.
Pool Connections: Enable connection pooling to optimize connection performance. When you enable the connection pooling,
Managed File Transfer
reuses active connections for the file transfer. When the connection pooling is disabled,
Managed File Transfer
creates a new connection for each file transfer job.
For more information about connection pooling and defining the connection pooling parameter, see Connection Pooling.

Default is false.
Max Idle Connections: The maximum number of idle connection instances that a pool maintains.
Managed File Transfer
refreshes the pool of idle connections after the maximum number of idle connections are met and creates a new connection.; Default is 8.
Max Active Connections: The maximum number of active connection instances that the pool maintains.
Managed File Transfer
creates a new connection for the file transfer if the number of active connections is met.; Default is 8.
Min Idle Connections: The minimum number of idle connection instances that a pool maintains.
Managed File Transfer
creates a new connection for the file transfer if the minimum number of idle connections is met.; Default is 0.

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