Restarting Aspera Services

When you change product settings, you might need to restart certain Aspera services in order for the new values to take effect.

IBM Aspera Central

If asperacentral is stopped, or if you have modified the <central_server> or <database> sections in aspera.conf, then you need to restart the service.

Run the following command in a Terminal window to restart asperacentral:

$ sudo launchctl stop com.aspera.asperacentral
$ sudo launchctl start com.aspera.asperacentral

IBM Aspera NodeD

Restart asperanoded if you have modified any setting in aspera.conf.

Run the following commands to restart asperanoded:

$ sudo launchctl stop com.aspera.asperanoded
$ sudo launchctl start com.aspera.asperanoded

IBM Aspera HTTPD

Restart asperahttpd if you have modified any setting in aspera.conf.

Run the following commands to restart asperahttpd:

$ sudo launchctl stop com.aspera.asperahttpd
$ sudo launchctl start com.aspera.asperahttpd