FTP Image Logging

To use the FTP Step, you need an FTP server set up on an external device. Omron Microscan recommends using the FileZilla FTP server. Install FileZilla on the repository PC and then continue below.

 


Precautions for Correct Use: Omron Microscan recommends adding your FTP server as an exception to your system's firewall.


 

Enter any name you choose, and click Finish. This should allow FileZilla server through the windows firewall.

 

To configure the FileZilla server after install, click the Edit menu item, then Settings:

 

 

Be sure the Listen On These Ports is set to 21. If you don’t plan to not use the Connect Every Cycle option, No Transfer Timeout must be set to 0. Make these changes, then click OK.

 

 

Now click IP Bindings and set the IP addresses to which you want to bind this server:

 

 

Now configure the users. Click Edit, then Users, then Add:

 

 

 

Click OK, then click on the Password checkbox and add a password for this user.

 

Now click Shared Folders, then Add. Browse for the folders to give this user access to, then click OK.

 

 

 

 

As with the Digital Outputs and the String Format Tool, FTP image transfer is available under the Inspection Outputs Tool.

 

 

This feature is disabled by default. If you open the editor and click the Enable button, an FTP Output step will be added after the Digital Output steps.

 

The Input Buffer datum of the FTP Output step is automatically connected to the output buffer. You do not need to make this connection. The editor provides all the settings required to configure the FTP connection.

 

FTP Server

These are the settings required to make a successful connection to the remote FTP server:

 

 

Transfer Options

These options control when an image is transferred to the server.

 

 

 

 

File Options

 

 

Once fully configured, the editor will look similar to this: