Switching Aspera HSTS from License Key to Entitlement
IBM Aspera offers two licensing options for High-Speed Transfer Server, the main server engine that powers Aspera FASP transfer sessions. The first model licenses each installation by server with a bandwidth cap. The second model allows unlimited installations and bandwidth, and is entitled according to how much data volume (bytes in + out) is sent over a year.
Many customers are changing to this volume entitlement to allow more flexibility in number of servers deployed and overall throughput.
This article describes how to switch an existing High-Speed Transfer Server from a license key to an entitlement.
Sections
Connectivity
There is a service that runs on your HSTS host that needs outbound connectivity on tcp/443 to the IBM Aspera entitlement service. This service will register your HSTS install and send simple byte counts to track against your annual allotment. Please open tcp/443 outbound.
Enabling the Entitlement Service and Registration
Log in to your HSTS host and open a root prompt, then run the following:
- Run ascp -A to view your current license. Note the customer ID, license ID and bandwidth limitation.
- Run /opt/aspera/bin/asalee-config.sh enable to enable the asperalee entitlement service.
- Locate your customer ID and entitlement ID. These should come directly from IBM, or may be given out by the primary Aspera administrator in large organizations.
- Run /opt/aspera/bin/alee-admin register customer_ID entitlement_ID to register your server.
- Run systemctl restart asperanoded to restart the main Aspera Node daemon.
- Run ascp -A to verify your server is using the new entitlement.