Can a File Watcher look for a file on a different server?

grogahn · Post by **grogahn** » 23 Apr 2014 8:22

Can a File Watcher run on one server and look for a file on different server.

steve_r · Post by **steve_r** » 27 Apr 2014 11:34

You don't say what version you are using - I don't know if it's possible in versions later than 6.3 but we use a filewatcher and a shell script combination on server A lo look for the presence of a file on server B. If the shell script finds the file on B, the it then touches a zero length trigger file on A for which the filewatcher is looking and exits tidily - then the rest of the processing on A is started by the filewatcher.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » 28 Apr 2014 11:14

I think, that there is no problem, if you map the other server-drive to the server, where the agent works.

Regards

Klaus