Aspera’s asctl functionality helps users to control many important operations from the command line. It provides a single interface for all tasks, thus considerably increasing efficiency for Orchestrator processes.
Orchestrator provides command line utility for certain operations like start, stop, and check status using the orchestrator script. Other scripts exist to allow users to set up and install the product, back up data, and migrate data.
The topics in this section provide a high-level description of asctl methods and the
implementation, inputs, and outputs needed to use asctl with Orchestrator.
Note:
Loading Rails will cause slow execution of asctl commands. Therefore, all of the
methods interacting with the Rails code dump a YAML file that contains instructions to
assist the Orchestrator process in picking up and understanding the task. The following
diagram illustrates the interaction between the operating system shell and Orchestrator in
this scenario.