Tenants and namespaces
Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed storage system designed to support large, growing repositories of fixed-content data.
HCP stores objects that include both data and metadata that describes that data. HCP represents these 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 various HCP-specific interfaces.
This chapter contains an overview of Hitachi Content Platform.
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- Introduction to Hitachi Content Platform
- Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed storage system designed to support large, growing repositories of fixed-content data.
- General administrative information
- As an HCP tenant administrator, you are responsible for managing a tenant and the namespaces it owns. Your primary job is to ensure that users and applications have the access they need to those namespaces.
- Managing accounts
- As a tenant security administrator, you are responsible for creating and managing tenant-level user and group accounts. These accounts give users permission to use the Tenant Management Console and HCP management API and to access namespace content through namespace access protocols that require authentication, the Namespace Browser, the HCP metadata query API, and the HCP Search Console. These accounts also determine which actions the user is allowed to perform through the applicable interface.
- Managing the current tenant
- When you log into the Tenant Management Console, you do so for a particular tenant. You can then view all the available information about that tenant, change certain of its properties, and monitor its activity.
- Managing namespaces
- When a tenant is first created, it has no namespaces. You use the Tenant Management Console to create them as needed.
- Configuring namespace access protocols
- HCP supports the REST, S3 compatible, HSwift, WebDAV, CIFS, NFS, and SMTP protocols for access to namespaces. You use these protocols to add, view, modify, and delete namespace content. Additionally, you can use the S3 compatible API to create, view or change the versioning status of, and delete namespaces.
- Managing search and indexing
- You manage search and indexing for namespaces at both the tenant and namespace level. At the tenant level, you create content classes and content properties. At the namespace level, you enable search and indexing options.
- About search and indexing
- Content classes and content properties
- About the Search page
- Creating a content class
- Managing content properties for a content class
- Changing the namespaces associated with a content class
- Reindexing namespaces associated with a content class
- Renaming a content class
- Deleting a content class
- Managing search and indexing for an individual namespace