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You can find it here: this is an opensource project.
https://github.com/IBM/aspera-cli
I’m interested in how it goes for you.
Wishing you well,
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Seth, we have a new release of Cargo and Connect coming up soon and they are getting closer to unified.
I will let you know once async is on for Cargo.
FYI. We found out how to do this based on Cargo's documentation. Use a PEM key in AoC, then make this conf file and it will work headlessly (anecdotal confirmation from our UK office).
Hi Anya,
Apologies for not responding sooner, apparently I don't get notified of guest comments. Short answer is yes, we still need this. I will reply to a few points in the previous comments as well:
I do have Connect 4.0, but as far as I know, it does not support running in a headless mode. I just tried creating a Windows service pointing to asperaconnect.exe and it does not start. If this is already possible and I'm just missing something, please let me know.
Sort of. We need to sync a headless client against AoC Files. Connect 4.x/Drive 3.x work fine in a graphical mode, we've been using them for many years (and also had a private feature request in for headless Drive for many years before this site was created).
This is interesting, I had not seen this project before. Is this intended to be a replacement for the official Aspera CLI client offered on the Aspera website? It seems to be much more fully-featured.
That said, I don't think it is appropriate for our use case. I want a service that will run continuously in the background, whereas this seems to be more for one off operations. I'm sure it's possible to write a script that accomplishes what I'm looking for by leveraging this cli tool, but I don't want to reimplement all the logic that Drive/Connect already do for me.
I considered this as well, and could probably get it working, but I would prefer an officially supported solution, especially considering that an official headless client already exists, but does not support all the features of the graphical client. I'm basically looking for a unified Connect and Cargo.
The limitation here isn't anything to do with authentication methods. As I mentioned above, asperaconnect.exe will not start as a Windows service. If you know a solution to this, please let me know.
Cheers,
Seth
If I understand well, you need to "sync" a client against "Aspera on Cloud Files app".
The application for that is Connect 4.x (replaces Drive 3.x).
Pure HSTS/HSTE do not really solve this.
Note that headless operations against AoC Files can be done using
ascli
: https://github.com/IBM/aspera-cliIn the past I have seen Drive running as a service (through a wrapper).
Also, Connect 4.x supports JWT private key-based authentication to AoC , so that should also allow headless (unless the GUI disallows that)
Do you have Connect 4.0? They integrated Aspera Drive into it. That means it can download/sync with you in a "headless" way like Aspera Cargo.
Hi Brian,
Our use case is to automatically download all files sent to us on Aspera. We are transferring against Aspera on Cloud.
I'll investigate High-Speed Transfer Server or High-Speed Transfer Endpoint, I've never used them before but if that's the suggestion solution, we can probably make it work.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll let you know how it goes.
Hi,
Can you confirm what your use case is? Are you transferring against Aspera on Cloud or a customer hosted High-Speed Transfer Server?
Also, if you are interested in a headless transfer, you could use High-Speed Transfer Server or High-Speed Transfer Endpoint. Have you considered these options?
Thanks