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The S3 Console provides Hitachi Content Platform for cloud scale (HCP for cloud scale) users with a place to manage and browse their buckets and objects. In addition, it can be used to manage bucket policies, such as Expiration Lifecycle, Sync-to Replication, and Sync-from Replication. In addition, metrics are provided for each bucket.

All completable actions have predefined roles, which are controlled by a system admininstrator who assigns them to users.

ImportantCurrently, S3 users can only generate the access and secret key pair needed to create, access, and manage buckets and their policies via the S3 API. To learn more, consult with your system administrator, or see S3 User Credentials.
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Permissions

In the S3 Console app, the following rules apply to permissions:

  • S3 users can view and browse buckets and objects they are given access to.
  • S3 users who are not bucket owners do not have the ability to view or assign policies to buckets, even if they are provided access to those buckets.
  • Bucket owners will need to have roles assigned to them by an admin to be able to configure and view bucket policies.

The following HCP for cloud scale roles can be applied and allow/disallow bucket owners to:

  • Set sync-to replication policies: data:bucket:sync:to:set
  • Set sync-from replication policies: data:bucket:sync:from:set
  • View sync-to and sync-from replication policies: data:bucket:sync:get
NoteA user requires s3:user:generate_credentials permission to be logged into the S3 Console.

For more information on assigning roles, see the Administrator Help.

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Logging in as an admin
A system admin is a user under the local admin account, or a user that has been assigned administrator permissions.
ImportantThe local admin user cannont log in to the S3 Console directly like basic users. The admin user can only login via the admin port.

To log in to the S3 Console as an administrator:

Procedure

  1. Connect to the admin port:

    http://<clustername>:8000

  2. Select S3 Console.

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Logging in as a user

NoteThe local admin user is required to login through the admin port and can not access the S3 Console through the user login page, as it is a realmless acount. To log in as an admin, see Logging in as an admin.
To log in to the S3 Console as a user:

Procedure

  1. Connect to the S3 port:

    https://s3.<clustername>

  2. If HCP for cloud scale is connected to a single realm (AD/LDAP), enter your Username and Password.

  3. If HCP for cloud scale is connected to more than one realm, enter your Username, Password, and select the applicable Security Realm.

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Generating S3 credentials

S3 credentials are used to connect to the S3 gateway for S3 operations and are created from the user menu. They are the credentials assigned to a bucket owner, allowing users to create and manage buckets and their objects from within HCP for cloud scale.

WARNINGGenerating new credentials removes the previously generated S3 credentials. Additionally, the generated values for Access Key and Secret Key will not be viewable again beyond this point, so maintain them for your records.

To generate new S3 credentials:

Procedure

  1. Click the user icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

  2. Click Generate credentials.

    A warning screen appears.

  3. To create credentials, click Generate.

    New values for Access Key and Secret Key appear.

  4. To copy one of these values, click Copy.

  5. Click Done.

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Logging out

To log out of the S3 Console:

Procedure

  1. In the upper right corner of the screen, click the user icon.

  2. Click Log out.

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