Upgrading Faspex
Faspex is a file exchange application built upon IBM Aspera Enterprise Server and other Aspera transfer products as a centralized transfer solution. In order to make transfers, FOD 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.
If an older version of Faspex is already installed on your workstation, upgrade to the newest version.
Warning: Due to incompatible Aspera Common
Components, IBM Aspera Console and IBM Aspera Faspex On Demand (FOD)
cannot be installed on the same machine. Aspera does not support this
combination. If you are running an older version of Faspex and Console on the
same machine, contact Technical Support to move
one of the applications to another system.
Note: Aspera does not support a direct upgrade from Faspex versions prior to 3.1.1.
Instead, first upgrade to 3.9.3 before upgrading to 4.0+.
Note: Before installing Aspera Faspex, make sure
you disable SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) on your RedHat, CentOS or Fedora
machine. SELinux, an access control implementation, causes the
Faspex installation to fail with an error. Disable SELinux on your machine by
following the instructions inDisabling SELinux.
Before You Begin...
Before beginning the installation process for Faspex, you must be logged into your computer as an admin .