IBM Aspera HST Admin Manual page 8

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The Aspera Transfer Server
Your Aspera transfer server is a powerful, customizable hub for your high speed transfer activity. Configuration
settings allow you to control which clients have access for uploading or downloading data, how much bandwidth their
transfers can use, the priority of those transfers, and how data is secured during and after transfer. The transfer queue
can be managed on the fly, enabling you to adjust as priorities change. You can also monitor transfers and receive
email notifications when transfer sessions or individual file transfers start and stop.
The Aspera Server GUI
The Aspera desktop GUI is primarily a client transfer tool, but it also offers a user-friendly interface for managing
users and configuring your server on supported platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS). Security settings, bandwidth
use policies, and file handling rules can all be set in the GUI. Configurations can be applied to all users (globally), to
groups, or to individual users.
HST Server Web Portal
Your HST Server can be made even more accessible to clients by hosting a web-based storage directory. Authorized
clients can browse files by using any modern web browser, and transfer using the free, automatically-installed
Connect.
Asconfigurator: The Aspera Configuration Tool
If you are unfamiliar with the XML formatting required for your Aspera server's configuration file, you can edit your
configuration with confidence by using asconfigurator. These commands ensure that the XML structure is
correctly maintained when you add or change settings.
Tap into the Aspera Ecosystem
If you have a variety of data storage systems and internal and external customers who need access to the content in
that storage, HST Server can be incorporated into a scalable Aspera data transfer ecosystem that meets your needs.
Your Aspera server can be monitored and managed by IBM Aspera Console, and added as a node to IBM Aspera
Faspex, IBM Aspera Shares, IBM Aspera on Cloud, and IBM Aspera Application for Microsoft SharePoint.
The Aspera Client Transfer Tools
Your installation includes the following transfer tools, some of which require an additional license for activation.
The FASP Transfer Engines: ascp and ascp4
These command line tools enable you to run transfers to any server to which you have access, and to customize
the transfers (within the parameters set by the server). They are scriptable, supporting unattended data transfer and
custom pre- and post-transfer file processing.
Hot Folders: Automatic Data Transfer in the GUI
Sending or receiving files can be even easier and faster by using Hot Folders. Available only on Windows, you can set
up a Hot Folder to watch for and automatically transfer any new files that are added to that folder. Automatically send
files to a server as they are added to a folder on your own desktop, or receive files as they are added to a folder on the
server. Transfers use Ascp and are easily managed from the GUI.
Watch Folders: Automatic Content Delivery at Any Scale
Using asperawatchd and Watch Folders creates a powerful, efficient file system monitoring and automatic transfer
tool that can comfortably handle millions of files and "growing" sources. Automatically transfer files as they are
added to a source folder. With a REST API interface, you have full programmatic control for custom, automatic
transfer processing.
Watch Folders offer the same transfer and bandwidth management options as ascp, and can be monitored and
managed through Console. Watch Folders are enabled in your HST Server or HST Endpoint.
IBM Aspera Sync: Directory Synchronization at the Speed of FASP