CSP Report FTP Push (FT-1007.007)
About this document
Scope
This document provides background information as well as a functional description of the FT-1007.007 CSP Report FTP Push advanced feature. The described feature is supported from the release version 5.1 onwards.
Note
CSP Report FTP Push is an advanced feature and requires a special license. Ensure that you have agreed with Mavoco about the usage of this feature before taking it into use.
This feature is part of the CSP Dashboard & Reporting functionality with number FN-1007.
Feature Availability
Feature Version | Available from | Summary of changes |
|---|---|---|
v1 | CMP Release 5.1 | Initial release |
Feature overview
Goals
The aim of the CSP Report FTP Push feature is to enable CSPs to receive the reports assigned to them via FTP push.
Out of scope
FTP Push of Account Reports
Other delivery mechanisms for CSP Reports
Any one-off check of the endpoint credentials when configured in the CMP instance
Preconditions & Assumptions
The feature will push all CSP Reports to one FTP destination for a CSP with the feature configured
The feature will not allow to select the reports to be pushed, i.e., either all CSP Reports are pushed or none
Functionality of the feature
Push CSP Reports is an advanced feature. When the feature is
disabled, no Push CSP Report capability is provided by CMP,
enabled, Push CSP Reports feature can be configured per CMP instance.
If Push CSP Reports is enabled in CMP, FTP parameters and credentials can be captured using a set of CMP configuration items.
After each report creation cycle, if configured accordingly, all of the CSP Reports are pushed to the chosen FTP destination. In the case of a failure, CMP will retry the report transfer up to the maximum number of retries specified in the CSP FTP parameters.
CMP will report on the status of the Report Push and the CSP User will be notified via Resource Manager Notifications. The notification will display
the total number of reports included in the push attempt,
the number of successful reports,
the number of failures, and
the reason for the failure (error message).