System administration
Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed data storage system designed to support large, growing repositories of fixed-content data. An HCP system comprises hardware (physical or virtual) and software.
Hitachi Content Platform stores objects that include data and the metadata that describes the data. HCP distributes these objects across the storage space. HCP represents objects either as URLs or as files in a standard file system.
An HCP repository is partitioned into namespaces. Each namespace consists of a distinct logical grouping of objects with its own directory structure. Namespaces are owned and managed by tenants.
HCP provides access to objects through a variety of industry-standard protocols as well as through HCP product-specific interfaces.
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- Introduction to Hitachi Content Platform
- Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed data storage system designed to support large, growing repositories of fixed-content data. An HCP system comprises hardware (physical or virtual) and software.
- HCP administration
- As an HCP system-level administrator, you play a role in ensuring the continued viability and accessibility of the HCP system. The primary tool for these purposes is a web application called the System Management Console.
- Account administration
- As an HCP security administrator, you are responsible for creating and managing HCP system-level user and group accounts. These accounts give users permission to access the HCP System Management Console, the Tenant Management Console for the default tenant, the HCP management API, the HCP metadata query API, and/or the HCP Search Console for the default tenant. For the System and Tenant Management Consoles and the management API, these accounts also determine which actions the user is allowed to perform through the applicable interface.
- Hardware administration
- The System Management Console offers both a summary view of all the nodes in the HCP system and a detailed view of each node on the Hardware and Storage Node pages, respectively. The Hardware page also provides a view of other hardware components used in the system. Using these pages, you can monitor both system hardware and system storage.
- Storage administration
- By default, HCP stores all objects in a repository on primary running storage. However, you can use HCP S Series Nodes as an alternative to primary running storage. HCP also supports the use of primary spindown storage, (SAIN systems only), S Series storage (that is, storage provided by S Series Nodes), and extended storage for tiering purposes.
- Network administration
- An HCP system can be configured to support virtual networking. Virtual networking enables the segregation of network traffic between clients and different HCP tenants, between management and data access functions, and between system-level and tenant-level traffic. This segregation enhances the privacy and security of communications over the HCP front-end network.
- Tenant administration
- Tenants are the administrative entities that own and manage namespaces. When an HCP system is first installed, no tenants exist. You use the HCP System Management Console to create them as needed.
- Search administration
- HCP supports two search facilities: the metadata query engine and the HDDS search facility. The metadata query engine is always available in the HCP system. The HDDS search facility requires an installation of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite and must be configured in HCP.
- System security
- Through the HCP System Management Console, you can set various options that affect HCP system security. In addition to creating and managing user and group accounts and login settings, you can:
- Setting network security
- Managing domains and SSL server certificates
- Controlling access to the System Management Console
- Controlling access to HCP through the management API
- Controlling access to the Search Console for the default tenant
- Active Directory and Windows workgroup support
- Configuring Keystone
- Configuring connections to RADIUS servers
- Setting the systemwide permission mask
- System monitoring
- HCP maintains a system log in which it records messages about events that happen within the system. You can view this log in the HCP System Management Console. You also have the option of sending system log messages to syslog servers, SNMP managers, and/or email addresses. Additionally, you can use SNMP to view and, when allowed, change HCP system settings.
- Troubleshooting
- From the system console for any HCP node, you can run selected diagnostics that can help with analyzing and resolving issues with interactions between the node and other components in the HCP environment.