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Storage Type Format Example

• specific folder: file:////folder/*

• drive root: file:////*

For Windows OS:

• specific folder: file:///c%3A/folder/*

• drive root: file:///c*

Amazon S3 and IBM Cloud Object Storage - S3 s3://*

Azure azu://*

Azure Files azure-files://*

Azure Data Lake Storage adl://*

Alibaba Cloud oss://*

Google Cloud gs://*

HDFS 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

Ensure the user has permissions to write to the default log directory if no directory is specified.

For more information about configuring log directories, seeWatch Service Configuration on page 213.

Configure asperawatchd and asperawatchfolderd settings.

Though the default values are already optimized for most users, you can also configure the snapshot database,

snapshot frequency, logging, scan threads, and drop handling, among other features. For instructions, see Watch

Service Configuration on page 213 and Watch Folder Service Configuration on page 174.

Your system is now ready for Watch Folders.

To create a push Watch Folder, see Creating a Push Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin on page 165 or

Creating a Push Watch Folder with the API on page 195.

To create a pull Watch Folder, see Creating a Pull Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin on page 170 or Creating

a Pull Watch Folder with the API on page 199.

Creating a Push Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin

These instructions describe how to create a push Watch Folder by using the aswatchfolderadmin utility.

aswatchfolderadmin requires a JSON configuration file with the syntax introduced in 3.8.0 (described in the

following section). Push Watch Folders can still be created from JSON configuration files that follow the 3.7 version

syntax by using the Watch Folder API.

To create and manage Watch Folders by using the Watch Folder API or IBM Aspera Console, see Creating a Push

Watch Folder with the API on page 195 and the IBM Aspera Console Admin Guide.

When you create a Watch Folder, a Watch service subscription is automatically created to monitor the source

directory. In the rare case that the subscription is somehow deleted or impaired, Watch Folders automatically creates

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