Hi Belen,

The correct way is the one you mention, install an agent on each IIS server and configure a sensor to the ftp folder. (if all your FTP server are the same config the product configuration can be shared)

There is a possible way to do this also is to map via windows and pointing each sensor to \\servername\patthtologfile, however you need to be careful with permissions and authentication. Also the traffic to all these web server from the collector machines is netbios which is certainly not allowed as most web servers being normally in DMZ. (and it is never advised to have this kind of traffic into DMZ)

Laurent

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