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Transporter is an S3 native portable storage appliance. Featuring state-of-the-art data protection, Transporter is capable of storing data created at the edge and being used to shuttle that content back to a base location. Transporter can be used either as a standalone device or with existing in-facility Perifery or Swarm clusters. Data import from Transporter to a main cluster is possible at the push of a button. Once the data transfer is completed, the system can be reset and made ready to go back out on location.
Prerequisites
Hardware specifications – USB key must be installed.
DHCP switch
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Once the device is ready, login into Perifery using the default email address which you registered with Symply for receiving the Transporter box.
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Enter the email Id and password to login into the account. For first-time login users, the credentials are:
admin - periferyadmin
password - password
Click Login. After successful login, your name should be visible at the top-right corner of the screen.
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On the left side, the login screen shows some information about health of all services and hardware that are down used in Transporter as per the current UTC date and time (e.g., November 9, 1:30 PM). If all the services/hardware are up and running, it shows |
Update Password
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The dashboard screen provides the following information:
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Status Overview
This section provides an overview of all the services and hardware (all the disks and drives) and whether they all are working fine or if there is any service/hardware down which can cause the installation later. The status overview is displayed as per the current UTC date and time.
If any hardware or services are down, the status overview will provide that information.
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- This status shows all the hardware/services are working fine.❗ – This status shows all the hardware/services are not up and running as expected.
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This section provides total storage space information and how much space has been consumed. The user will see a bar view of consumed space out of the total space available.
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How to Connect
This section contains access URLs and token information and provides an ability to copy either one by one or the whole information (access URLs and tokens) in one go.
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There are two ways to copy access URLs and tokens:
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To copy all (S3 endpoint URL, bucket name, access key, and secret key) in one go, click Copy all and save them in a Notepad. These details will be used in the future while moving the bucket content to a remote location.
Copy access URLs and tokens one by one and save them into a notepad.
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By default, the S3 secret key is not visible. To view the secret key, click on the eye icon . Click and copy icon to copy the S3 secret key. |
Integrated Apps
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This section helps to move data to the remote location (i.e. S3 destination). Data is available in a tabular format that contains the below columns:
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Bucket Name – The name of the bucket.
Object Count – The count of objects in numbers.
S3 Destination – Current location of the S3 bucket.
Object Count – The count of objects in numbers.
Move Content – This action item is used to move the bucket content to the remote location.
Report Generation – This action item is used to generate the bucket report that you can download in raw JSON. This button gets enabled only after the bucket is moved to the remote location.
Move Bucket Content
You can move the bucket content to the desired remote location using the below steps:
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Click on the Move icon corresponding to the bucket. It displays a form in the sliding panel.
Fill up the required fields marked with asterisks (*). An example is shown in the screenshot below:
S3 Endpoint URL – Enter the target S3 endpoint URL.
S3 Bucket – Enter the target S3 bucket where the content is to be moved.
Remote Folder – An optional folder path within the remote bucket.
Access Key – An access key for the remote bucket. It must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.
Secret Key – An S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.
Click Move. A confirmation message appears “Bucket <x> moved to bucket <y> successfully”.
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The target remote bucket contains the content moved from the source, and now the source bucket is empty.
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Once the content has been moved to the remote location, Move icon gets disabled corresponding to the source location row as it is now empty. |
Report Generation
The report icon gets enabled irrespective of whether the bucket has been moved successfully or got failed to move to the remote location. To generate the report, refer to the following steps:
Click on the reporticon corresponding to the bucket.
All the objects available in the selected bucket are displayed along with their object size and object status on a successful migration. It gives a preview of the bucket content report.:
Click Download. It generates the bucket content report in JSON.
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The Report icon gets diabled disabled once the data is migrated and the report is generated. |
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The user can view his/her profile from the top-right corner of the screen, which contains two options Change Password and Logout.
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Change Password
This option is available for existing users. If they want to change the current password, refer to the following steps:
Click on the username from the top-right corner of the screen.
Select Change Password. It shows a form to change the provide new password details:
Enter the current password.
Enter a new password and re-enter it to confirm the same.
Click Change. A confirmation message appears saying that ‘Password changed successfully'.
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