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- Many object tools have options to create and manipulate buckets, which is quite convenient, generally portable (i.e. would work on any object storage system), but are also limited. In general, tools cannot create buckets with ECS options, such as encryption, replication and file access. You have to use one of the other bucket creation options. Object tools only need the object user's access credentials. Please see the tool's documentation for details.
- The RESTful APIs, including S3, Swift, and an ECS-specific management API, can be used to create and manipulate buckets. With the appropriate headers and parameters, depending on the API, ECS options can be enabled. Use of the APIs is beyond the scope of this document. More information can be had in the ECS Data Access Guide and the ECS Management API Reference (hint - use the search function).
- The protocol-specific S3 or Swift REST APIs need an object user's credentials, and the namespace administrator must have given appropriate permissions to the object user.
- The ECS
- Use the ECS Portal. This is the simplest option that gives full control over bucket characteristics. The ECS Portal can only be accessed by the namespace administrator. (That would be you, for your personal namespace.) he namespace administrator logs into the ECS Portal (https://ross.hpc.uams.edu) with the credentials tied to that namespace. Details on how to use the ECS Portal to manage buckets can be found in the Buckets chapter of the ECS Administration Guide.
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