IBM Aspera HST User Manual

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Watch Folders and the Aspera Watch Service.................................................. 159
Introduction to Watch Folders and the Aspera Watch Service........................................................................ 159
Choosing User Accounts to Run Watch Folder Services................................................................................ 160
Creating, Managing, and Configuring Services............................................................................................... 161
Watch Folders................................................................................................................................................... 164
Getting Started with Watch Folders..................................................................................................... 164
Creating a Push Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin.................................................................... 165
Creating a Pull Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin......................................................................170
Watch Folder Service Configuration.................................................................................................... 174
Watch Folder JSON Configuration File Reference..............................................................................175
Managing Watch Folders with aswatchfolderadmin............................................................................ 193
Configuring Linux for Many Watch Folders....................................................................................... 194
Creating a Push Watch Folder with the API........................................................................................195
Creating a Pull Watch Folder with the API......................................................................................... 199
Managing Watch Folders with the API................................................................................................203
Configuring Custom Watch Folder Permissions Policies.................................................................... 207
Updating the Docroot or Restriction of a Running Watch Folder Service...........................................210
The Aspera Watch Service............................................................................................................................... 211
Starting Aspera Watch Services and Creating Watches....................................................................... 211
Watch Service Configuration................................................................................................................213
Setting Custom Watch Scan Periods.................................................................................................... 215
Managing Watch Subscriptions............................................................................................................ 215
Transferring and Deleting Files with the Aspera Watch Service......................................................... 216
Aspera Sync........................................................................................................... 218
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 218
Overview............................................................................................................................................... 218
Synchronization and Direction Modes................................................................................................. 220
Aspera Sync FAQ................................................................................................................................. 221
Aspera Sync Set Up......................................................................................................................................... 222
Configuring Aspera Sync Endpoints....................................................................................................222
Viewing Aspera Sync Transfers in the Aspera GUI............................................................................ 226
Symbolic Link Handling...................................................................................................................... 227
The Aspera Sync Database...................................................................................................................228
Running async...................................................................................................................................................230
Composing an Async Session.............................................................................................................. 230
async Command Reference.................................................................................................................. 234
Examples of Async Commands and Output........................................................................................ 247
Include and Exclude Filtering Rules.................................................................................................... 248
Filtering Examples................................................................................................................................ 252
Bidirectional Example.......................................................................................................................... 253
Synchronizing with AWS S3 Storage.................................................................................................. 253
Writing Custom Metadata for Objects in Object Storage.................................................................... 255
Aspera Sync with Basic Token Authorization..................................................................................... 256
Using the Aspera Watch Service with Aspera Sync........................................................................................257
Starting Aspera Watch Services and Creating Watches....................................................................... 257
Starting the Aspera Watch Service.......................................................................................................259
Watch Service Configuration................................................................................................................259
Aspera Sync with Aspera Watch Service Session Examples...............................................................261
Aspera Sync Monitoring and Logging.............................................................................................................262
asyncadmin Command-Line Options................................................................................................... 262
Logging................................................................................................................................................. 264
Troubleshooting Aspera Sync...........................................................................................................................264

IBM Aspera HST Specifications

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Brand	IBM
Model	Aspera HST
Category	Server
Language	English