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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
  • Identity and Access Management (S3)
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Maintenance
  • Certificates
    • Introduction to certificates
    • ECS certificate toolECS certificate tool assists to upload SSL certificates to the ECS data or management interfaces.
    • Generate certificates
    • Upload a certificate
      • Authenticate with the ECS Management REST APITo run ECS Management REST API commands, you must first authenticate with the API service and obtain an authentication token.
      • Upload a management certificateYou can upload a management certificate which is used to authenticate access to management endpoints, such as the ECS Portal and the ECS Management REST API.
      • Upload a data certificate for data access endpointsYou can upload a data certificate which is used to authenticate access for the S3, EMC Atmos, or OpenStack Swift protocols.
      • Add custom LDAP certificateYou can add the customize LDAP certificate for ECS authentication.
    • Verify installed certificatesThe object certificate and management certificate each has an ECS Management REST API GET request to retrieve the installed certificate.
  • 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. Certificates
  3. Upload a certificate

Upload a certificate

You can upload management or data certificates to ECS. Whichever type of certificate you upload, you must authenticate with the API.

  • Authenticate with the ECS Management REST API
  • Upload a management certificate
  • Upload a data certificate for data access endpoints