Hello All,

Does anyone have experience using BTS to "poll" an NFS-
based file system on a Unix server?  I imagine that direct
polling is not possible, but what solutions have people
come up with?

Any advice or comments are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

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Hello Jim,

BizTalk Server File Receive functions require Windows file change
notifications to work so the underlying file structure needs to support
Windows file change notifications.  The BizTalk product group only provides
QFE (quick fix engineering) support for any problems that may be
encountered when using a true Windows based file system.  (ie. if your file
receive function is failing and you request support from MS to resolve the
failure, MS will ask if you can repro the failure on a Windows file system)
With that said, a number of people have had success with BizTalk File
Receive functions monitoring Unix file shares when using SAMBA on Unix to
emulate a Windows file system.

Regards,

Trace
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| Hello All,
|
| Does anyone have experience using BTS to "poll" an NFS-
| based file system on a Unix server?  I imagine that direct
| polling is not possible, but what solutions have people
| come up with?
|
| Any advice or comments are appreciated.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Jim
|
|

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You could try FTP.

"Jim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have experience using BTS to "poll" an NFS-
> based file system on a Unix server?  I imagine that direct
> polling is not possible, but what solutions have people
> come up with?
>
> Any advice or comments are appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jim
>

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It is fairly easy to write a .NET application that will poll the Unix
location, copy the file to a temporary location, delete it from the Unix
share (which will fail if the file is still open) and if successful, copy it
to a share that Biztalk is monitoring.  You can run this app from a
scheduling service, or make into a service yourself.

That would be my direction.  Hope this helps,
--- Nick
Biztalk bum

"Jim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have experience using BTS to "poll" an NFS-
> based file system on a Unix server?  I imagine that direct
> polling is not possible, but what solutions have people
> come up with?
>
> Any advice or comments are appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jim
>

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