ASM SFTP monitor failing with error : 9279 Could not open remote file for reading: Operation failed (Error in the SSH layer)

Products

• CA App Synthetic Monitor

Issue/Introduction

ASM SFTP monitor failing with error 9279: Could not open remote file for reading: Operation failed (Error in the SSH layer)

It gives this error, when we specify the file path. If we remove the file path, it runs fine (gives an OK message)

Environment

DX ASM

Cause

This is a known issue as described here

File names are assumed to use the slash ('/') character as a directory separator.  File names starting with a slash are "absolute", and are relative to the root of the file system. Names starting with any other character are relative to the user's default directory (home directory).

Resolution

Replace \ with /

For example: change from e:\test\test.txt to /e:/test/test.txt