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 a 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.