Configuring Transfer Servers for Use with Faspex

Windows: Setting Up a Windows Node
Linux: Setting Up a Linux Node
OS X: Setting Up an OS X Node

What is a Node?

A node is a local, remote, or cloud workstation running an Aspera transfer server product (IBM Aspera Enterprise Server, IBM Aspera Connect Server). In order to make transfers, Faspex communicates with a node through the Node API. The Node API is a daemon on the transfer server that offers REST-inspired file operations and a transfer management API. Aspera web applications authenticate to remote node services using a Node API username and password. Different nodes may use different Node API username and password pairs.

When installing Faspex on the same workstation as the transfer server, Faspex automatically configures the local node's aspera.conf configuration file and sets up a Node API user to communicate with the Node API. When installing Faspex on a machine without a transfer server, you must configure a remote transfer node for use with Faspex and connect that node to Faspex during the installation process.

Configuring a Node for Use with Faspex

Nodes do not have to run on the same platform as the Faspex server. To set up your machine to run as a node, follow the instructions pertinent to the platform of the workstation.