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ECS 3.7 Administration Guide
ECS 3.7 Administration Guide
Rev. 1.1
  • Welcome to ECS
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
  • Identity and Access Management (S3)
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Maintenance
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
  • ECS Outage and Recovery
  • Advanced Monitoring
  • Document feedback
  • Welcome to ECS ECS provides a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS can be deployed as a turnkey storage appliance or as a software product that can be installed on qualified commodity servers and disks. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity infrastructure with the enterprise reliability, availability, and serviceability of traditional arrays.
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
    • Introduction to users and roles In ECS you can configure users and roles to control access to the ECS management tasks and to the object store. Management users can perform administration tasks in the ECS Portal. Object users cannot access the ECS Portal but can access the object store using clients that support the ECS data access protocols.
    • Users in ECSECS requires two types of user: management users, who can perform administration of ECS, and object users, who access the object store to read and write objects and buckets.
      • Management usersManagement users can perform the configuration and administration of the ECS system and of namespaces (tenants) configured in ECS.
      • Default management users
      • Object usersObject users are users of the ECS object store. They access ECS through object clients that are using the object protocols that ECS supports (S3, EMC Atmos, OpenStack Swift, and CAS). Object users can be assigned Unix-style permissions to access buckets exported as file systems for HDFS.
      • Domain and local users ECS supports for local user and domain users. Local and domain users can be assigned as management users or object users.
      • User scopeThe user scope setting affects all object users, in all namespaces across all federated VDCs.
      • User tags
    • Management roles in ECSECS defines roles to determine the operations that a user can perform in the ECS Portal or when accessing ECS using the ECS Management REST API. Management users and groups can be assigned to administration roles in ECS and can be either local users or domain users. Roles can also be assigned to Active Directory group names.
    • Working with users in the ECS PortalYou can use the User Management page available from Manage > Users to create local users who are assigned as object users for a namespace. You can also create management users, which can be new local users to whom you assign management roles, or domain users to whom you assign management roles.
  • Identity and Access Management (S3)
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Maintenance
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
  • ECS Outage and Recovery
  • Advanced MonitoringAdvanced Monitoring dashboards provide critical information about the ECS processes on the VDC you are logged in to.
  • Document feedback
  1. Home
  2. Users and Roles
  3. Users in ECSECS requires two types of user: management users, who can perform administration of ECS, and object users, who access the object store to read and write objects and buckets.

Users in ECS

ECS requires two types of user: management users, who can perform administration of ECS, and object users, who access the object store to read and write objects and buckets.

The following topics describe ECS user types and concepts.

  • Management users
  • Default management users
  • Object users
  • Domain and local users
  • User scope
  • User tags