Monitor file-based systems for files or objects on a file system or other type of storage. You can retrieve files and process the contents of the files or perform file operations like moving or reading file metadata. For example, you can parse comma-delimited file, make the file contents available in a process object as XML, and archive the processed file in another directory. The file or object metadata, such as the number of rows or time stamp, is also available in a process object. The File, FTP, and Amazon S3 connectors are in this category.

Access event services to perform tasks like reading XML from a process object and creating comma-delimited files or reading binary files from a process stream and writing that binary content to the target file system.