IBM Aspera HST User Manual

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Troubleshooting General Aspera Sync Errors......................................................................................264
Troubleshooting Continuous Aspera Sync Errors................................................................................266
Resolving Bidirectional Aspera Sync File Conflicts........................................................................... 267
Appendix........................................................................................................................................................... 268
Hardlinks............................................................................................................................................... 268
Creating SSH Keys...............................................................................................................................269
rsync vs. async Uni-directional Example.............................................................................................269
Configuring for Other Aspera Products............................................................ 271
Set up HST Server for Node API....................................................................... 272
Overview: Aspera Node API............................................................................................................................272
Node API Setup................................................................................................................................................272
Node Admin Tool............................................................................................................................................. 275
Configuring the IBM Aspera NodeD Service..................................................................................................277
Securing the Node Service Behind a Proxy.....................................................................................................281
Backing up and Restoring the Node User Database Records..........................................................................282
Backing up and Restoring Access Keys (Tenant Data)................................................................................... 282
Backing up and Restoring a Node Database................................................................................................... 283
Setting up SSL for your Nodes........................................................................................................................284
Installing SSL Certificates................................................................................................................................286
Authentication and Authorization...................................................................... 289
Introduction to Aspera Authentication and Authorization...............................................................................289
Require Token Authorization: Set from the Command Line...........................................................................290
Transfer Token Creation (Node API)...............................................................................................................291
Transfer Token Generation (astokengen)......................................................................................................... 293
Access Key Authentication.............................................................................................................................. 296
Basic Tokens..................................................................................................................................................... 304
Bearer Tokens................................................................................................................................................... 305
Highly-Available Redis Backend for an HST Server Cluster...........................306
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 306
Requirements.....................................................................................................................................................307
Setup and Configuration...................................................................................................................................307
Start and Test the Cluster................................................................................................................................. 310
Redis Sentinel Operation.................................................................................................................................. 311
Logging............................................................................................................................................................. 311
Asconfigurator Reference.................................................................................... 311
The asconfigurator Utility................................................................................................................................ 311
Syntax and Usage............................................................................................................................................. 311
Examples........................................................................................................................................................... 313
Reading Output................................................................................................................................................. 314
User, Group and Default Configurations......................................................................................................... 315
Trunk (Vlink) Configurations...........................................................................................................................321
Central Server Configurations.......................................................................................................................... 321
HTTP Server Configurations............................................................................................................................322
Database Configurations................................................................................................................................... 324
Server Configurations....................................................................................................................................... 325
Client Configurations........................................................................................................................................329

IBM Aspera HST Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	Aspera HST
Category	Server
Language	English