Hi Readers,

We got a requirement to upload files to ftp from an application server that will drop files to particular folder.

So we have created a nice shell script to do this job & scheduled it via windows task manager.

Script does the following:

1. It will check if the source folders have files to process , if not than it will exit
2. Upload those files to FTP
3. Files that have been uploaded are moved to processed folder (folder name is time stamped)
4. Error checking–> if there is error while processing it wll email.
5. Detailed logging has been added.

Download & extract the script, below are the variables that I have used , you can change them accordingly

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Upload-files-to-FTP-server-8373e632

###########################Variables######################################
$smtpServer = “smtp.lab.com” # Change

$fromadd = “DoNotReplyftp@lab.com” # Change

$email1 = “Vikas.Sukhija@lab.com”  # Change

$ftp = “ftp://127.0.0.1/” # Change

$user = “vikas”  # Change$pass = “password” # Change

$uploadfpath = “C:\Uploadftp\ftpfiles” # Define the Folder from where files will be uploaded
###########################################################################

here is what it will look like, after changing the variables, you just have to run the batch file

##################################################################################### 
##           Script will Upload files to FTP    
##           Author:  Vikas Sukhija                                                            
##                                                                     
##           Date: 02-24-2013 
##           Modified Date:- 02-26-2013 (included loging & monitoring) 
##################################################################################### 
#############################Define Log Files######################################## 

$date = get-date -format d 
$date = $date.ToString().Replace(“/”, “-”) 
$time = get-date -format t 
$month = get-date  
$month1 = $month.month 
$year1 = $month.year 
$time = $time.ToString().Replace(":", "-") 
$time = $time.ToString().Replace(" ", "") 

$log1 = ".\Logs" + "\" + "FTP_" + $date + "_.log" 
$log2 = ".\Logs" + "\" + "FTP_" + $month1 +"_" + $year1 +"_.log" 
$log3 = ".\Logs" + "\" + "FTP_" + $date + $time + "_.log" 

$logs = ".\Logs" + "\" + "Powershell" + $date + "_" + $time + "_.txt" 

#Start-Transcript -Path $logs  
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Script Started" 

###########################Variables###################################### 

$smtpServer = "smtp.lab.com" # Change  
$fromadd = "DoNotReplyftp@lab.com" # Change  
$email1 = "Vikas.Sukhija@lab.com"  # Change  
$ftp = "ftp://127.0.0.1/" # Change 
$user = "vikas"  # Change 
$pass = "password" # Change 
$uploadfpath = "C:\Uploadftp\ftpfiles" # Define the Folder from where files will be uploaded  

########################################################################### 

$checkitems = Get-ChildItem $uploadfpath 
$countitems = $checkitems.count 
if ($countitems -eq 0) 
{ 
Write-Host "No items to process" -ForegroundColor Green 
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : No items to process, script will exit" 
exit 
} 
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Total number of items to process $countitems" 

$processed = ".\processed\$date" + "-" + $time 
if((test-path $processed) -like $false) 
{ 
New-Item -Path "$processed" -type directory 
} 

##################################################################################### 

if ($error -ne $null) 
      { 
#SMTP Relay address 
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage 
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) 

#Mail sender 
$msg.From = $fromadd 
#mail recipient 
$msg.To.Add($email1) 
$msg.Subject = "FTP Script error" 
$msg.Body = $error 
$smtp.Send($msg) 
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Script Terminated because of error: $error" 
$error.clear() 
exit 

       } 
  else 

      { 
    Write-host "no errors till now" 
      } 

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient  

$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)   

#Upload each file in upload directory... 

foreach($item in (dir $uploadfpath "*.*")){  
    Write-host  "Uploading $item..."  -ForegroundColor Green 
    $dt = Get-Date 
    Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Uploading $item..." 
    $uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp+$item.Name)  
    $webclient.UploadFile($uri, $item.FullName) 
      if($error -ne $null) 
        { 
    Write-Host "Items will not be moved" -ForegroundColor Red 
        } 
        else 
        { 
    Write-Host "Moving $item to processed" -ForegroundColor green 
    Move-Item "$uploadfpath\$item" $processed 
    $dt = Get-Date 
    Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Moving $item to processed" 
        } 
 }  

if ($error -ne $null) 
      { 
#SMTP Relay address 
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage 
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) 

#Mail sender 
$msg.From = $fromadd 
#mail recipient 
$msg.To.Add($email1) 
$msg.Subject = "FTP Script error" 
$msg.Body = $error 
$smtp.Send($msg) 
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Script encountered error: $error" 
$error.clear() 
       } 
  else 

      { 
    Write-host "no errors till now" 
      } 
$dt = Get-Date 
Add-Content $log3 "$dt : Script Processing finished" 

#Stop-Transcript 
##################################################################

Regards

Sukhija Vikas