Configuring Console Defaults

The Console Defaults configuration page lets you to set up system defaults for Console, such as IP address and SSH timeout), as well as defaults for transfers (target rate, minimum rate, bandwidth policy, and so on) and login security. To access the Console and Transfer Defaults configuration page, select Configuration > Defaults from the Console menu.

Console Defaults

Item	Description
Console database IP address	Enter the Console database IP address.
Warn when database free space less than	The space watcher background jobs warns you when available space drops below the set number of gigabytes. Set to zero to disable space watcher warnings.
Skip non-error transfers older than	If a submitted transfer doesn't start after the specified number of minutes, then flag it as having an error.
Mongrel Timeout	Enter the number of seconds to wait for a response when testing mongrels.
Node Polling Timeout	Enter the number of seconds the SOAP Poller background process waits for a response when testing a node.
Mark Inactive Timeout	Enter the number of seconds Console waits before marking a session as inactive.
Submitted Job Timeout	Enter the number of seconds Console waits before marking a submitted Console job as inactive. Note: If record processing is slow, transfers can inaccurately be reported with the error: "DB never reported session end." To work around this issue, increase the submitted job timeout.
File Browsing Timeout	Enter the number of seconds to wait for a response from a node when browsing file lists (over and above the SSH timeout to connect).
File Browsing Max Items	Enter the maximum number of items to retrieve from a node when browsing file lists.
Default SSH Encryption	Select the default SSH encryption algorithm for non-Console nodes. Note: Console presents this algorithm as the standard, but you can change the algorithm when adding a new node.
Remote Login Connection Timeout	Enter the number of seconds Console waits before timing out when establishing a connection to a remote server.
Remote Login Response Timeout	Enter the number of seconds Console waits before timing out when waiting for the remote server's response.
SSH Timeout	Enter the timeout value in seconds for the SSH connection.
SSH Tunnel Start Port	Start assigning SSH tunnel ports at the specified port number.
Advanced Search Timeout	Enter the timeout value in seconds before advanced search returns current results.
Email Notification Delay	Enter the number of seconds to wait after initiating a transfer before producing notification emails.
Total Bandwidth Graph	Select this option to track total bandwidth usage across all notes on the Dashboard graph.
Advanced File Search	Select this option to allow users to search the entire database for filenames when using advanced search. Note: This may slow down Console if your database contains a large number of files.
Email Recipients	Select this option to allow email recipients to see each other's addresses.
Session notifications	Select this option to allow non-admins to access the session notifications page.
Smart Transfer Start Permissions	Select this option to allow users whose transfer path includes "Any" or addresses without a username to start any matching smart transfer that is shared and uses non-personal endpoints. For example, userA is authorized to use a transfer path that has one endpoint set to 10.0.123.45 and the other set to "Any". If userB's shared smart transfer is set up with non-personal endpoints on 10.0.123.45 (source) and 10.0.111.11 (destination), it will appear in userA's smart transfers list and can be started by userA.
Smart Transfer Sharing	Select this option to allow users to share smart transfers with personal logins.
Smart Transfer Editing	Select this option to allow administrators to edit each other's smart transfers.
Failover / Load balancing Behavior	Select Failover + Load balancing for Console to use the least busy node(s) first. For more information, see Configure Failover Groups.
Watchfolders	Enable the watchfolder feature in Console.
Watchfolders per page	Configure the number of watch folders to display per page when browsing configured watch folders.

Transfer Defaults

Item	Description
Target Rate	Set the default target rate.
Minimum Rate	Set the minimum rate.
Bandwidth Policy	Set the default transfer policy (choose among low, high, fair, and fixed).
Max. Retry Attempts	Set the maximum retry attempts.
Retry Interval	Set the retry interval in seconds.
Transport Encryption	Select between not-encrypted or aes-128 encryption.
File Compare Type	Select a file comparison type to verify transferred files.
File Overwrite Policy	Select an overwrite policy.

Report Generation

Item	Description
Retention Period	The number of days to keep generated reports before deleting them automatically.
Maximum Email Attachment Size	The maximum size in megabytes of CSV/XLSX files that may be sent by email. (Generated files can still be downloaded from the Reports page.)
File Maximum Data Length	The maximum size in megabytes of the result table for which CSV/XLSX files may be generated. (CSV/XLSX files are not generated if the result table is larger than this.) This setting is useful for preventing Console from trying to convert a giant data set into a file and running out of disk space.
Maximum XLS file rows	The maximum number of rows allowed for generated XLS files.

Security

Item	Description
Session Timeout	Sessions will timeout after the specified number of minutes of inactivity.
Deactivate Users	Deactivate a Console user if there has been "X" failed login attempts within "X" minutes.
Prevent concurrent login	If this checkbox is enabled, users can only be logged in from one client at a time.
Suppress logging of transfer tokens	Select this option to suppress tokens from being written to the database. Existing tokens already in the database are unaffected. Note: After enabling this feature, you may experience some lag before the setting takes effect if a request is already in progress and the node is taking a long time to reply.

Console Password Options

Item	Description
Password Expiration	Select this option to expire number of days
Password Duration	Enter the number of days before passwords expire. Setting the value to 0 will disable this feature.
Password Reuse Limit	Enter the number of passwords users need to go through before they can reuse an old password. Setting the value to 0 disables this feature.
Password Requirement Regular Expression	Enter a regular expression to specify password requirements. Leave blank to set no requirements. Note: You can select the Restore Default link to reset the password requirement to the following: "Passwords must be at least six characters long, with at least one letter, one number, and one symbol."
Password Requirement Message	Set a message describing the password requirements for users setting a new password.

Empty sessions (successfully completed with 0 bytes transferred)

A zero-byte transfer occurs when an Aspera product initiates a transfer but finds that the file already exists at the destination and that there are no changes between the source file and the file at the destination. If Console is monitoring the transfer, it marks the transfer as a success and records that zero bytes were transferred.

Nodes using hot folders regularly make these successful, zero-byte transfer sessions, and Console logs each one in its database. One workaround is to use Aspera Watch Folders instead of hot folders. Watch Folders only attempts to transfer a file when there is a change between the source and destination. For requirements and information on Watch Folders, see Creating a Push Watch Folder with aswatchfolderadmin.

You can also configure Console to mark zero-byte transfers for deletion by the DatabaseIngest background job.

Note: Console might still display the most recent zero-byte sessions on heavy loaded systems if DatabaseIngest job backlog is high. Once the backlog is processed, Console will not display zero-byte transfers on the dashboard.

Item	Description
Leave in database	Leave all zero-byte transfers in the database.
Delete if hot folder	Mark for deletion zero-byte transfers initiated from hot folder sessions, leaving all other zero-byte transfers in the database.
Delete all	Mark for deletion all zero-byte sessions regardless of origin.