Aspera Console

Aspera Console

Centrally manage, monitor and control your Aspera transfers and nodes with Aspera Console - the advanced web-based management application, providing comprehensive, centralised control and complete visibility over your Aspera network.

The Aspera Console simplifies the process of deploying Aspera Server (Enterprise and faspex™) and Client nodes and managing Aspera transfers between them across a wide area network (WAN).  Providing users with detailed visibility over all file transfer activity within an Aspera network, Aspera Console offers an advanced web-based interface with comprehensive real-time notification, logging and reporting capabilities, while maintaining a centralised transfer history database for detailed auditing and customised reporting.


Aspera Console’s role-based access control allows users to monitor, start transfers, and generate fully customisable reports.  From the Aspera Console, users can also automate files transfers—including multi-site synchronisation with Aspera Sync and full business process orchestration with the Aspera Orchestrator—and integrate with third-party applications. 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 and monitor all transfer and bandwidth utilisation parameters.

Applications


•    Centralised transfer history archival for audit and reporting
•    Control systems with stringent transfer-tracking and accountability requirements
    - Secure communication with all managed nodes
    - Detailed database, with backup and purging capabilities
•    Manage large numbers of users and groups
•    Coordinate complex transfer workflows such as multi-site content ingest, automated forwarding and partner distribution
•    Manage multi-server Aspera deployments remotely
    - Heterogeneous transfer scenarios with different types of clients and servers
    - High-availability deployments with built-in redundancy and fail-over capabilities

Functionality at-a-glance


•    Centrally configure and manage multi-server Aspera transfer nodes (Enterprise Server and Point-to-Point) via one central web-browser interface
•    Monitor real-time transfer activity, including notifications
•    Store transfer history for audit and reporting
•    Manage user access control with detailed private views and control capabilities on individual transfers and paths
•    Prioritise bandwidth allocation or adjust bandwidth in real-time
•    Browse and initiate manual or automated transfer jobs between remote sites
    - Create transfer templates for users
    - Schedule for future one-time and automate recurring transfers
•    Create customised activity, usage and billing reports and notifications
•    Supports Aspera Sync 1.0 for multi-site file synchronisation over the WAN(*)
•    Supports a single log-on with Aspera Orchestrator 1.0 for file transfer automation and workflow orchestration, for shared, seamless user management     settings
•    Open architecture for integration with third-party processes and systems

 

Licensing and Deployment


•    Platform support
    - Web application: Linux, Windows
    - Browser: Linux (Firefox), Mac (Safari & Firefox), Windows (IE & Firefox)

•    Managed nodes
    - Aspera Enterprise, Connect & faspex servers
    - Aspera Point-to-Point


Aspera Console Deployment

 

System Requirements

 

•    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

If you would like any further information regarding the Aspera product range or fast file transfer in general, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

 

Key Features

  • Monitor and control network-wide transfer activity and bandwidth utilisation
  • Initiate and automate transfer jobs remotely
  • User access control and node management
  • Configure all node properties including bandwidth controls, encryption settings, directory creation masks, and email notifications
  • Define transfer settings and authorisation policies by user, including bandwidth caps and priorities, encryption and security settings
  • Manage policies by user group, including Active Directory, local Windows and Unix groups
  • SSH authentication
  • Filter Aspera Console capabilities by user, group and transfer path, including transfer activity monitoring, bandwidth control, and email notifications
  • SSH authentication
  • Secure communication with Aspera nodes, with secure tunneling via ssh
  • AES-128 data encryption in transit and at rest, FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic module
  • Configurable encryption settings per user, with complete transfer authorisation policies and security options
  • Sender can decide to encrypt-at-rest
  • Server admin can enforce encryption-at-rest, including pass-phrase strength
  • Data integrity verification for each transmitted block
  • Centralise transfer history
  • Create activity reports and email notifications
  • Customisable reporting engine for user-defined reports (new in Console 1.5)
  • Transfer bandwidth scheduling on the server, including vLink™ (aggregate bandwidth) scheduling
  • Automate Aspera transfers, for one-time and recurring transfer schedules
  • Custom pre- and post-processing functionality on managed nodes
  • Automatic forwarding on managed servers
  • Support for Aspera Sync, for multi-site, multi-directional file synchronisation

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