HSTS Configuration and Transfer Reference

Parent topic: HSTS Configuration and Transfer Reference

Transfer Files in the GUI

Use the HST Server GUI to create connections to Aspera servers, configure transfer settings, set up transfer notifications, and start, stop, pause, and schedule transfers.

Overview of the HST Server GUI
The HST Server GUI is an intuitive tool for starting and managing transfers. Learn how to launch the GUI and how to navigate its features.
Global Bandwidth Settings
Aspera FASP transport has no theoretical throughput limit. In addition to network capacity, transfer rates can be limited by user-configured rate settings and the resources of the local and remote machines. You can configure bandwidth usage limits and the number of concurrent FASP transfers that are allowed by HST Server.
Enabling a Transfer Proxy or HTTP Proxy
If, for network security reasons, you are behind a transfer proxy server, you can enable the proxy for Aspera file transfers. If you have admin privileges, you can enable transfer proxies for all users by setting global preferences. If you are a non-admin user, you can override global transfer-proxy settings for your own account, including enabling or disabling the feature. By default, proxy is disabled.
Adding and Editing Connections
To transfer with HST Server, HST Endpoint, IBM Aspera Shares, IBM Aspera on Cloud transfer service (AoCts), or an IBM Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager node, add it as a connection in the Connection Manager. The following instructions describe how to create and configure a connection and edit or delete connections.
Exporting, Importing, and Backing Up Connections
Connections, and optionally their passwords, can be exported and imported as a text file, and the text file can be password protected. The same procedures can be used for backing up and restoring connections.
Creating SSH Keys in the GUI
Public key authentication (SSH Key) is a more secure alternative to password authentication that allows users to avoid entering or storing a password, or sending it over the network. The client creates an SSH key pair (a public key and a private key) and then sends the public key to the server's administrator. Once the admin configures the server with the client's public key, the client can authenticate connections to the server with their private key.
Transferring Content
The GUI provides an easy, intuitive way to transfer content between the local computer and a remote host.
Managing Transfers
The HST Server GUI enables you to start, stop, and reorder transfers, as well as adjust transfer rates and policies and configure transfer preferences.
Scheduling and Customizing Transfers in Advanced Mode
You can start a transfer in advanced mode to set per-session transfer options such as filters, security, which override the default transfer settings. You can also schedule the transfer as a one-time transfer or recurring.
Configuring Transfer Notifications
Transfer notification emails are triggered by three transfer session events: start, completion, and error. Transfer notification emails can be enabled and configured globally and by each user. The emails are generated from mail templates that can be customized.
Using Transfer Notifications
Transfer notifications can be emailed to a set list of recipients upon transfer start, complete, and error. The email templates can be fully customized. These instructions describe how to configure email notifications for all transfers to and from a specific connection. If you want to send email notifications for only certain transfers, you can set email notifications on a per-transfer basis; for instructions, see Scheduling and Customizing Transfers in Advanced Mode.
Reporting Checksums
File checksums are useful for trouble-shooting file corruption, allowing you to determine at what point in the transfer file corruption occurred. Aspera servers can report source file checksums that are calculated on-the-fly during transfer and then sent from the source to the destination.

Parent topic: HSTS Configuration and Transfer Reference

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