Setting Up

Steps for setting up your Aspera On-Demand Server.

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This task walks you through setting up your Aspera On-Demand Server for AWS. Aspera On-Demand Server is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that has been designed to operate on AWS environment. It contains the following two Aspera products:

Product Description
On-Demand Connect Server A web-based fasp™ file transfer server.
On-Demand Console A transfer and server management application.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Before proceeding with Step 1, you must register Aspera On-Demand. Please visit the following page and complete the on-screen instructions: http://asperasoft.com/ondemand/reg.

  1. Purchase Aspera Faspex On-Demand Server from the Amazon Marketplace.

    Once you have purchased the Faspex On-Demand Server from the Amazon Markeplace, you will be given the option to configure and launch your new AMI into EC2 directly through the marketplace. You also have the option of managing the configuration and launch process from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console. The remaining steps in this topic describe the process for configuring and launching the AMI from the AWS Management Console.

  2. Create security group and open required ports.

    Log into the Amazon Web Services Management Console via http://aws.amazon.com/console. Here, you will need to create a Security Group that prepares the firewall settings for the Aspera On-Demand Server. To do so, go to Security Groups in the navigation sidebar and click Create Security Group.

    Create a new group for the On-Demand Server and open the following ports:

    • HTTP - TCP/80
    • HTTPS - TCP/443
    • Custom (SSH) - TCP/33001
    • Custom (fasp) - UDP/33001

    You may use your existing key pair for the Aspera AMI. If you would like to generate a new key pair, go to Security Groups in the navigation sidebar and click Create Key Pair.

    Enter the key pair name and click Create. The private key can then be downloaded to your local machine (e.g. asp1.pem). To install the private key, move the file into the following directory (where home directory is replaced with the path to your login account's home directory): 

    (your home directory)/.ssh/
  3. Launch your Aspera On-Demand AMI.

    Within the AWS Management Console, go to AMIs in the navigation sidebar and search for the AMI with the keyword aspera, or the exact name referred to in the subscription-confirmation page. Launch the AMI.

    In the Launch Instance Wizard, enter the following information:

    • Select the number of instances. Each instance is a unique On-Demand Server.
    • Select the instance type.
    • Select the security key pair. Refer to Step 1.
    • Select the security groups associated with the Instance. Refer to Step 1.

    Click the Launch button when finished.

Please continue to the topic "Logging In" for information on logging in for the first time.