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Console:
IBM Aspera Console Admin Guide
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Faspex:
IBM Aspera Faspex Admin Guide
Shares:
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IBM Aspera Shares Admin Guide
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Aspera for SharePoint:
Set up HST Server for Node API
HST Server must be configured in order to use the Aspera Node API. You can use the asnodeadmin tool to set up
the server and manage the Node API. The Node API uses a Redis database, which can be backed up and restored in
different ways, depending on what information you need to preserve.
Overview: Aspera Node API
The Aspera Node API is a feature of HST Server that provides a REST API for full programmatic control of the
Aspera transfer server environment. A daemon, asperanoded, provides node-specific services such as browsing,
searching, creating and deleting files and directories, and setting up transfers over HTTP or HTTPS.
The Node API allows you to connect nodes to Aspera web applications, such as IBM Aspera Faspex, IBM Aspera
Shares, and IBM Aspera on Cloud, as well as integrate Aspera applications with your web application. It is supported
by all Aspera server products and across multi-cloud and hybrid storage systems.
The Node API includes the following features and functionality:
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An HTTPS (by default port 9092) and HTTP (by default port 9091) interface.
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An API that uses JSON data format.
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The API is authenticated and the node daemon uses its own application-level users (node users).
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A node admin utility, asnodeadmin, for adding and managing Node API users and passwords. For more
information, see
Node Admin Tool
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It logs to syslog, akin to asperacentral, except for RedHat which logs to /var/log/messages.
Requirements to use the Node API:
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The line 127.0.0.1 localhost must appear in the hosts file:
/etc/hosts
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For UNIX-based nodes, SELinux must be set to permissive or disabled, not enforced. Check the status
of SELinux with the following command:
# sestatus
If SELinux is set to enforced, see
enforced, or if sestatus reports that SELinux is not installed on your system, you do not need to take further
action.
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To run node-to-node transfers, the remote node must have version 3.7.4 or later. Earlier versions use an SSH key
type that is no longer accepted by servers as of version 3.7.4.
Node API Setup
The Aspera Node API comes with your installation of HST Server. To use it, you must configure your product and
create Node API credentials.
1. Ensure that the hosts file contains an entry for 127.0.0.1 localhost. The hosts file can be found in /etc/
hosts.
2. Select or create a system user to associate with the Node API credentials.
IBM Aspera Application for Microsoft SharePoint Admin Guide
on page 275.
Disabling SELinux
on page 332. If SELinux is set to disabled or
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