FTP job fails with the error "PORT is unsuccessful"

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

The ftp job fails with the error "PORT is unsuccessful"

The Job definition is as follows

/* ----------------- TEST_FTP1_C ----------------- */ 

insert_job: TEST_FTP1_C job_type: FTP 
machine: dalaaaaa
owner: xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx
permission: 
date_conditions: 0 
description: "FTP" 
alarm_if_fail: 0 
ftp_transfer_type: B 
ftp_transfer_direction: UPLOAD 
ftp_local_name: "/data1/XXXX/YYYY/ZZZZ/abc/def/test.properties" 
ftp_remote_name: "/tmp/test.properties" 
ftp_server_name: x.x.x.x
ftp_server_port: 21 
ftp_use_ssl: 0 
ftp_local_user: local 
ftp_user_type: Simple 

 

In the autorep outout we see the following error

$ autorep -J TEST_FTP1_C -d 

Job Name Last Start Last End ST Run/Ntry Pri/Xit 
________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ __ ________ _______ 
TEST_FTP1_C 07/27/2015 16:29:45 07/27/2015 16:29:46 FA 2348890/1 500 

Status/[Event] Time Ntry ES ProcessTime Machine 
-------------- --------------------- -- -- --------------------- ---------------------------------------- 
STARTING 07/27/2015 16:29:44 1 PD 07/27/2015 16:29:45 dalaaaaa

RUNNING 07/27/2015 16:29:45 1 PD 07/27/2015 16:29:46 dalaaaaa <Executing at dalaaaaa> 
FAILURE 07/27/2015 16:29:46 1 PD 07/27/2015 16:29:46 
<"PORT is unsuccessful"> 

 

The spool file had the following output

 

$ pg 41082.2420077_1 
Attempting to connect to x.x.x.x:21 
Connection established to x.x.x.x:21 
USER xxxxx
331 Password required for xxxxx 
PASS (hidden) 
230 User xxxxx logged in 
SYST 
215 UNIX Type: L8 
Uploading binary /data1/XXXX/YYYY/ZZZZ/abc/def/test.properties --> /tmp/test.properties 
PORT x,x,x,x,174,173 
500 Illegal PORT command 
Upload failed: "PORT is unsuccessful" 

 

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ATSYS

Resolution

There are two types of ftp. The active mode and passive mode. The system agent by default uses active mode. In environments where there is a firewall between the ftp server and client the ftp active mode can fail.

In order to switch to passive mode add the following parameter to the agentparm.txt and restart the agent:

ftp.passive=true