Aspera Console
Network-wide management, monitoring, and control
Overview
Centrally manage, monitor and control your Aspera transfers and nodes with Aspera Console – the advanced web-based management interface, providing comprehensive, centralized control and complete visibility over your global network environment running Aspera high-speed transfers between multiple nodes.
Through Aspera Console, administrators have the ability to centrally configure all managed Aspera nodes, create and manage users and user groups, initiate and automate transfer jobs, and precisely control all transfer and bandwidth utilization parameters. Aspera Console provides users with advanced visibility over all file transfer activity within an Aspera network and comprehensive notification, logging and reporting capabilities.
Features
- Monitor and control network-wide transfer activity and bandwidth utilization
- Dashboard view of transfer activity and bandwidth utilization
- Detailed, tabular view of current and recent transfer activity
- Drill-down view of individual transfer parameters, status, ETA and statistics
- On-the-fly control over individual transfer speed and priority
- Node activity, status and performance monitoring
- On-the-fly control of aggregate bandwidth targets per node or per user group
- Initiate and automate transfer jobs remotely
- Remotely browse nodes and initiate ad hoc transfer jobs
- Use “Smart Transfers” for multi-point distribution of individual files or entire directories
- Create and share “Smart Transfer” templates for repeatable transfer jobs
- Configure target and minimum transfer rate, transfer priority and encryption settings
- Manage transfer nodes, users and user groups
- Configure all node properties including bandwidth controls, encryption settings, directory creation masks, and email notifications
- Create and manage users and groups, including Active Directory, local Windows and Unix groups
- Filter Aspera Console capabilities by user, group and transfer path, including transfer activity monitoring, bandwidth control, and email notifications
- Define transfer permissions and authorization policies by user and group, including bandwidth caps and priorities, encryption and security settings
- Create activity reports and email notifications
- Configure email notifications on start, success and/or error
- Create and view detailed transfer activity reports by day, IP address or user
- Export activity reports to XML or CSV
Managed Nodes
- Aspera Enterprise Server
- Aspera Connect Server
- Aspera faspex Server
- Aspera Point-to-Point
System Requirements
- Installation requirements
- Supported operating systems
- - Red Hat Linux 4 or 5
- - CentOS 4 or 5
- - Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
- - Windows 2003 Server (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Minimum hardware requirements
- - 2 GHz single-core CPU
- - 2 GB of RAM
- - 2 GB of disk space
- Recommended hardware configuration (10 nodes or more)
- - 2 GHz multi-core CPU or better
- - 4 GB of RAM
- - 2 GB of disk space
- User requirements*
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7 (Windows)
- Mozilla Firefox 3 (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Apple Safari 3 (Mac)
* Aspera Console is a web application that users access through a web browser