At my current project incoming data files, located at a third party FTP server, have to be read using SFTP.
Despite of several blog posts and the FTP Adapter documentation of Oracle, it took us a full day to get a working SFTP configuration. I use this blogpost to document this for myself in case I have to do it again, and for others who need to do (about) the same.
Prerequisite
First of all start with ensuring that no firewall is blocking traffic from the weblogic server to the FTP server using the specified SFTP port (default this is 22). On a linux (or unix) server you can verify this by opening a command prompt on the weblogic server (eg. with Putty) and use command “ssh “.
Two configuration steps are required now:
A. Create a private and public key file
B. Add a FTP Adapter Outbound Configuration for SFTP
A. Create a private and public key file (linux/unix):
In a production environment these files should be write protected (even for the oracle account itself).
B. Add a FTP Adapter Outbound Configuration for SFTP:
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