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## Prerequisites

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150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody            0 Jan  1 00:00 chunkdocs/
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody            0 Jan  1 00:00 testdir/
...
```

Following example shows how to list an object and download it locally via `ftp` client:

```
ftp> ls runner/chunkdocs/metadata
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||44269|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list

The steps below show how to use this notification target in `namespace` format. The other format is very similar and is omitted for brevity.

### Step 1: Ensure Elasticsearch minimum requirements are met

`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/resource`.

To use this endpoint, setup Prometheus to scrape data from this endpoint. Read more on how to configure and use Prometheus to monitor MinIO server in [How to monitor MinIO server with Prometheus](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/metrics/prometheus/README.md).

### **Deprecated metrics monitoring**

Use the following commands to compile and run a standalone MinIO server from source. Source installation is only intended for developers and advanced users. If you do not have a working Golang environment, please follow [How to install Golang](https://golang.org/doc/install). Minimum version required is [go1.21](https://golang.org/dl/#stable)

```sh
go install github.com/minio/minio@latest
```

The main limitation is that to update or delete content of a file inside a ZIP file the entire ZIP file must be replaced.

## How to enable S3 ZIP behavior ?

Ensure to set the following header `x-minio-extract` to `true` in your S3 requests.

## How to access to files inside a ZIP archive

```

Default config includes most common highly compressible content extensions and mime-types.

```bash
~ mc admin config set myminio compression extensions=".pdf" mime_types="application/pdf"
```

To show help on setting compression config values.

```bash
~ mc admin config set myminio compression
```

To enable compression for all content, no matter the extension and content type