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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
  • ECS Settings
    • Introduction to ECS settings
    • Object base URLECS supports Amazon S3 compatible applications that use virtual host style and path style addressing schemes. In multitenant configurations, ECS enables the namespace to be provided in the URL.
    • Key Management
    • External Key Manager ConfigurationThis section provides you information about External Key Management properties.
    • Key rotationThis section provides information about ECS Key rotation and the limitations.
    • EMC Secure Remote ServicesEMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS) is the recommended way for your customer support representative to receive notification of potential system issues. ESRS enables your customer support representative to troubleshoot system errors remotely by analyzing logs.
    • Alert policy Alert policies are created to alert about metrics, and are triggered when the specified conditions are met. Alert policies are created per VDC.
    • Event notification servers You can add SNMPv2 servers, SNMPv3 servers, and Syslog servers to ECS to route SNMP and Syslog event notifications to external systems.
    • Platform lockingYou can use the ECS Portal to lock remote access to nodes.
    • LicensingECS licensing is capacity-based. The ECS license file is a single file that contains base and add-on software features. A license applies to a single VDC. In geo-federated systems, each VDC requires a license. In a VDC configuration with multiple racks, the license file includes the total capacity for all racks in the VDC.
    • SecurityYou can use the ECS Portal to change your password, set password rules, manage user sessions, and set user agreement text. ECS logs an audit log event when the password change fails for reasons such as connection disruption, forgetting the password. You can see and audit log for failed password changes.
    • About this VDCYou can view information about software version numbers for the current node or other nodes in the VDC on the About this VDC page.
    • Object version limitation settingsObjects with many versions can cause DU when the objects are accessed by foreground or background operations. With object version limitation settings, it is possible to prevent DU.
  • 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
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  2. ECS Settings

Introduction to ECS settings

This section describes the settings that the System Administrator can view and configure in the Settings section of the ECS Portal. These settings include:

  • Object base URL
  • Key Management
  • ESRS
  • Alert policy
  • Event notification
  • Platform locking
  • Licensing
  • Security
  • About this VDC