The Aspera Watch Service; Starting Aspera Watch Services And Creating Watches - IBM Aspera HST Admin Manual

Note: Users can have a docroot or restriction, but not both or Watch Folder creation fails.
To set up a docroot from the command line, run the following command:
# asconfigurator -x "set_user_data;user_name,username;absolute,docroot"
Restrictions must be set from the command line:
# asconfigurator -x
"set_user_data;user_name,username;file_restriction,|path"
The restriction path format depends on the type of storage. In the following examples, the restriction allows access
to the entire storage; specify a bucket or path to limit access.
Storage Type
local storage
Amazon S3 and IBM Cloud Object Storage - S3
Azure
Azure Files
Azure Data Lake Storage
Alibaba Cloud
Google Cloud
HDFS
With a docroot or restriction set up, the user is now an Aspera transfer user. Restart asperanoded to activate your
change:
Run the following commands to restart asperanoded:
# systemctl restart asperanoded
or for Linux systems that use init.d:
# service asperanoded restart

The Aspera Watch Service

Automatically detect file system changes with the Aspera Watch Service.

Starting Aspera Watch Services and Creating Watches

The Aspera Watch Service (asperawatchd) is a file system change detection and snapshot service that is
optimized for speed, scale, and distributed sources. On file systems that have file system notifications, changes in
source file systems (new files and directories, deleted items, and renames) are detected immediately, eliminating
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Format Example
For Unix-like OS:
• specific folder: file:////folder/*
• drive root: file:////*
For Windows OS:
• specific folder: file:///c%3A/folder/*
• drive root: file:///c*
s3://*
azu://*
azure-files://*
adl://*
oss://*
gs://*
hdfs://*