I have an SSIS package that is supposed to read a folder and if the folder contains any text files, it will read them and store the data into a database. The package works flawlessly from the file system, however when I deployed it it fails.
The package uses a project level variable that remains consistent that acts as a folder path to see which folder to look in for files.
The SQL Server Agent gives me this error:
After looking at the execution report I see following error messages if I execute it with the service account through SQL Server Agent:
"The file name property is not valid. The file name is a device or contains invalid characters"
"The file name '(path here)' specified in the connection was not valid"
"The Flat File Connection manager failed validation"
However, if I run it myself by directly right clicking on the package in the catalog and executing, the execution report will come back as successful but it will contain a warning that says: "Read Files From File Input Folder Warning: The For Each File enumerator is empty. The For Each File enumerator did not find any files that matched the file pattern, or the specified directory was empty"
I suspect it is a permissions error, but I haven't dealt much with the permissions in Microsoft SQL Server and the service account that I am using was not created by me. I have tried changing the security of both package and project from the default "Encrypt sensitive data with user key" to "Do not save sensitive data", rebuilding and redeploying but that didn't help at all.
It is most likely a permissions error but I've been puzzled on how to go about it. Any help is much appreciated!
EDIT: After setting the "Delay Validation" on tasks in the control flow and executing the package with SQL Server Agent it now comes back with 2 less errors
For filesystem task to work the executing account need permission to the folder in question. When you execute the package via the SQL-agent the package is executed under the account running the SQL-agent account, when you right click the package and press execute the package is executed as your account.
One problem could be that the SQL-agent account doesn't have permission to the folder, and can't enumerate the content. You can verify this by changing the SQL-server account to your own account temporary and running the job again:
Open Sql Server Configuraiton Manager
Under SQL Server Services double click SQL Server Aggent
Change the account to your own account
Restart the service
If this resolvs the problem, change back to the SQL-server account and check the folder permissions on the folder you are trying to enumerate. Add the SQL-agent account or group the account is included in to have permission to read the folder. Obviously you can also just check the folder permissions to begin with, and make sure the executing account have permission to it.
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I've been stuck on this for sometime now. I have an SSIS package thats supposed to read a file and populate a database. I need to run it from a SQL Server Agent Job and the source files to read are located on a folder in another server that I have shared with this server.
The shared path to the folder looks like like this: \\server\D\folder\folder
However when I run agent job through a service account it tells me File name property is not valid. Filename is a device or contains invalid characters
The SQL Server Agent uses a service account to run this job. It runs just fine if the source path is located somewhere on the machine where the database instance lives, however I can't get it to run from a shared folder. If I run it myself by right clicking on the SSIS catalog I can run it just fine. I am aware that it is most likely a credentials issue, but all of these servers and accounts were not set up by me. Can someone help me explain how I should go about adding appropriate permissions to the said SA account so it can read the files successfully? Some examples/references would be greatly appreciated!
Things I've tried: Going to the folder security tab and adding all permissions to everyone on both the server where the folder originally is from and the server that the folder is being shared from. I can confirm everyone has the permissions with the windows PowerShell Get-Acl command.
Switching owner of the job task in SQL Server Agent to my account (I don't think its supposed to work ever to begin with) - this makes Agent complain about being "Unable to determine if user has server acces" with SA account it does have server access, it just can't read the folder.
I saw a post where someone suggests to change the SQL Agent Job advanced step option to "execute as user" and change the user with appropriate credentials, but I don't even see that option in my MSSQL.
I have stumbled upon this thread here , it was never really solved it seems but it looks like the 3 steps given should help me:
Assume that we need to write \serv\share\dir1..\dirN\targetDir\somefile.txt using SSIS throught SQL Agent Job and nonadmin proxy account MyDomain\TestAccount
MyDomain\TestAccount need read/write access to share \serv\share
MyDomain\TestAccount needed at least FILE_READ_DATA permission for all folders (share,dir1,..dirN)
MyDomain\TestAccount needed the CHANGE rights + FILE_DELETE_CHILD permission for folder targetDir
However, me being new to this, I have no idea how to properly check whether or not all these 3 conditions are true and if they are even completely relevant to the problem
EDIT:
There is a project-level variable in SSIS that determines where to read from (in this case set to \\server\d\folder\folder)
This variable is passed into forEach file enumerator in a for loop.
There is also a fileName variable used to check if file name was already loaded in the db as I store them in the table. The variable goes like this:
DECLARE #FileName VARCHAR(50) SET #FileName='' IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM FileLoadStatus WHERE fileName = #FileName) BEGIN SELECT 1 AS FileExistsFlg END ELSE BEGIN SELECT 0 as FileExistsFlg END
If variables are at fault, I still don't know why it works if I execute it manually through catalog myself, but SQL Server Agent is unable to execute it through an SA account
EDIT 2: Exact errors say the following:
EDIT 3: Now that I have set a windows system task to execute the SSIS package instead of a SQL Server Agent Job it just tells me that the "for each file enumerator is empty" basically meaning it can't find any files in the destination to read, even though files are there
it might be a late respond, for all who come to check for an answer to this issue:
the main thing is to be sure that the SQL agent has the authority to read from the shared folder:
1- hold down the Windows key and press R on your keyboard to open the Run command in windows.
2- type services.
3- search for SQL Server Agent.
4- as in the screenshot shows on the logon option you will find which user the agent is using, be sure that this user has the authority to read from the shared folder.
or change the user to another one with the right credentials.
5- you can check the users of the shared folder by right clicking on it and choosing properties --> security. From this window you can change the credentials of the users.
I've seen this question asked several times but never with a satisfacory answer. I have read through all the posts I can related to this and tried as much as I possibly can.
I have an SSIS package that loops thru a network folder of Excel files, I won't explain what it does inseide the loop container as that is not relevant.
I refernce the folder via a UNC \servername\folder
The package works fine from within Visual Studio.
I deployed the package to the Integration Services Catalogs on the
server
After I deploy, I connect to the server from my local pc via SSMS and then I execute it from SSMS via "Integration Services Catalogs"... Execute - This fails.
However If I remote desktop onto the SQL Server box, then start SSMS, connect to the SQL Server using my own credentials and execute the package using exactly the same method as above it works fine.
When I look in the logs of the failed attempts I see a warning that "The For Each File enumerator is empty". I'm not sure if this is telling the full story as, if I rename the network folder, I get the same message, (I expected to see an error that the folder was not found) - this may or may not be relevant.
I've sketched up a quick overview of what works and what doesn't
NOTE The "script execution" method is just a t-sql script for running these packages. This is the method I will use eventually but at the moment I'm focusing on the simple right-click execute method as this essentially does the same thing.
Since I did this I have tried a few more things...
I've tried accessing the folder as a UNC, a mapped drive and also UNC using IP address instead of server name.
I recreated the issue on our development server so I could change
service accounts etc.
I tried the default accounts on both SSIS and SQL Agent services.
I tried changing these to domain accounts and network service accounts.
I get the package to log the folder name which is and expression - this always looks correct. I do the same with the user name which always shows me as the exection user.
I can change most things as I can test on the development server with the excpetion of testing with a domain admin account so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cannot seem to find any concise information on this at all so trying my luck here.
Recently have setup Integration Services Catalogs because at present all our SSIS packages are stored within a folder and just ran as a File. We wish to move these, which has worked fine.
I have created a basic SSIS Package that puts a Username into a SQL Table and then also a File System Task to Delete a File.
When the package is ran from the Catalog via SSMS it completes the SQL side of things perfectly fine, placing both the Username running the package and the data into the SQL table, however it fails on the File System Task with
"File System Task: Error: An error occured with the following error message : "Access to the path "xxxx" is denied.
I have changed the SQL Agent Job on the SQL Server to have the permissions of our Administrator Account with no luck.
I can confirm the folder in question is Shared, it has FULL Read/Write Permission to "Everyone" and yet I still get this error.
I even went to the trouble of creating a new folder and just enabled full sharing to everybody on it - I still get the same access is denied.
Seen a previous post on stackoverflow about NETWORK SERVICE being added, can also confirm that this has full permission to the folder and thus it rules this out also.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I have a SSRS solution that contains 20 reports all of which utilise a shared data source called "DataWarehouse". This datasource has been configured to use Windows Authentication. These reports have been deployed to a server.
I have a requirement where I need to be able to automatically run these reports once a data warehouse has completed loading overnight. Sometimes the warehouse load might take 5 hrs, sometimes it might take 10 and so I don't want schedule these reports at a particular time using reporting services, I want the warehouse load to determine when its done and trigger the reports.
Now, I have a mechanism to do this:
I have written a c# console application that accepts a report name and a file path which runs the report and saves it do wherever it needs to.
I have an SSIS package that executes the console application from (i). I use an SSIS package because the DBA where I work will not enable xp_cmdshell.
I have an agent job that runs the SSIS package when the warehouse load completes.
Now if I run the SSIS package on my local machine (as me) the package executes successfully and the report is generated and saved. When I deploy the SSIS package to the server and try and run it through the agent job it fails with the following error:
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The permissions granted to user 'NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT' are insufficient for performing this operation. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.AccessDeniedException: The permissions granted to user 'NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT' are insufficient for performing this operation.
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ReportExecution2005Impl.LoadReport (String Report, String HistoryID, ExecutionInfo2& executionInfo)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.WebServer.ReportExecutionService.LoadReport (String Report, String HistoryID, ExecutionInfo& executionInfo)
My initial guess was that this means the SSIS job gets executed as 'NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT' and this user does not have access to run reports on the report server. So I jumped on to the report server and tried adding NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT as a user who could run reports but I was still getting errors. Can anybody help me figure how I can get this working?
Thanks
This will help you execute the SSIS package in the command prompt, and you can run the package on the server in scheduled tasks from the batch file (you may need special permissions to run a batch file in scheduled tasks). What you will want to do is create a windows batch file to allow you to automatically run the SSIS package via Command Prompt and you will need to use Dtexec. Here is what your batch file will look like:
#ECHO OFF
Some comment about what the package is doing
Dtexec /f "C:\some\file\path\YourPackage.dtsx
Then once you save the notepad as a windows batch file you will be able to open the batch file and it will run your package in the Command Prompt. I hope this helps
I edited the console application to connect to the SSRS server as a specific user. I've added what I did below incase its useful to somebody else.
To do this I created a file called account.config which just contained the username on the first line and password on the secondline:
MyUser
MyPassword
Then in my console application I have the following code:
// Read in the config file and add the lines to a list
List<string> accountDetails = File.ReadAllLines(Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "account.config")).ToList();
ReportExecutionService myReportExecutionService = new ReportExecutionService();
// Add the credentials
// accountDetails[0] is the username, accountDetails[1] is the password
myReportExecutionService.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(accountDetails[0], accountDetails[1]);
So, I have an SSIS package that checks for file existence on the server, copies data from the file onto a table on sql server and moves the file to a done folder.
I have created environment variables and since I have full access to folders and to the server..the package got executed successfully. But, When I selected QA environment in the configuration manager and when I run the package..it's failing to move the file to the done folder and the error in execution result is - [File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Access to the path is denied.".
I have used user variables within the File system task
and the package overview
My question here is - since the file is present in file explorer on QA box and I don't have access..is it the reason for it to fail. But, I am not using my credentials to login at the connection manager level. I am using SQL server authentication (got a service account created).
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
My question here is - since the file is present in file explorer on QA box and I don't have access..is it the reason for it to fail.
This is the reason for the failure, yes.
When running a SSIS package in Visual Studio most things will run under your credentials. Yes, you need to specify credentials for some connection managers, but File System Tasks use the Local User's credentials. If you, personally, do not have access to a file, neither does an SSIS package you are running.