IBM Secure Diagnostic Data Upload Utility restricts the upload to a few IBM ftp server. Select the ftp server from the drop down list. If there are problems with the name resolution of the ftp server, it is possible to enter the ip address of the server in the input field.
Timeout for the connection to the server and for command responses.
Type of the network connection. Defines if the connection is done direct or thru a SOCKS or HTTP Proxy Server. If a ftp proxy is used, select direct and specify the ftp proxy on the FTP Proxy Settings tab.
Hostname or IP Address of the SOCKS server or http proxy. Default port of SOCKS server is 1080. Default port of HTTP Proxy is 8080.
Userid and password used to authenticate to the SOCKS or proxy server. Keep the fields empty if the SOCKS or proxy server do not require an authentication.
If the transfer speed starts with incredible high values and breaks down after a few seconds, and the transfer does retry because of transfer failures after a few minutes, try to use the caching proxy fix.
This fix is not working with the ftp server testcase.boulder.ibm.com. It opens an additional ftp session per thread. On the other hand, some firewalls do limit the number of connections. In this case you may notice decrease of transfer threads after the transfer of the first few data slices.
Recommendation: use this switch only in case of transfer problems