Managing Nodes and Shares |
Field | Description | Example Value |
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Name | A description of the node. | Headquarters |
Host | The node computer's hostname or IP address, along with a port and path. The port field represents the port on which the node service is running. The default is 9092. The path field is an advanced feature used for URL Proxy operations. In nearly all cases, you may leave this field blank. | In this example, Aspera Shares™ and Aspera Enterprise Server are installed on the same computer. That means our hostname is localhost and our node service port is HTTPS 9092. If the node is on a remote host, use the IP address or resolvable hostname. |
API Username | The node API username that you created when you set up Aspera Enterprise Server on the node machine. This user is kept in the redis database for authentication between the Aspera Shares application and the node service. | node-admin |
API Password | The node API password that you created when you set up Aspera Enterprise Server on the node machine. | s3cur3_p433 |
Use SSL | To encrypt the connection to the node using SSL, select this
check box. Although the node is configured to use an Aspera
preinstalled and selfsigned certificate
(/opt/aspera/etc/aspera_server_cert.pem), you
can use your own certificate by replacing the files located in the
following directories:
To generate a new certificate, see Setting UP SSL and use the OpenSSL command-line binary (/opt/aspera/shares/bin/openssl). Note: After
generating a new certificate, you must create a cert.pem file
that contains the private key and the certificate. To do so,
copy and paste the entire body of the key and cert files into a
single text file. Then save the file as
filename_cert.pem.
|
Enabled, by default. |
Verify SSL Certificate | To verify the SSL certificate, select this check box. | Enabled, by default. |
Bytes free - warn | Issues a warning message when the node has equal to or less than a specified number of storage bytes free. You can enter the number as G, MB, terrabytes, and bytes. | 50G |
Percent free - warn | Issues a warning message when the node has equal to or less than a specified percent of its storage free. | 25% |
Bytes free - error | Issues an error message when the node has equal to or less than a specified number of storage bytes free. You can input the number as G, MB, terrabytes, and bytes. | 10G |
Percent free - error | Issues an error message when the node has equal to or less than a specified percent of its storage free.. | 10% |
From this drop-down menu, you can perform following tasks.
For detailed information on these functions, see Modifying Nodes.