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Make sure you have a Transporter device with preinstalled hardware specifications and a labeled USB key. Plug the Transporter device into the DHCP switch. Your computer/laptop must also be plugged into the same switch for the local network connection.
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Power on device
Press the power button to turn on the Transporter device on. Once power is on, the device starts advertising the hostname on Port 9010. It will provide browser access on the same network.
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Enter the email Id and password to login into the account. For the first-time login usersuser, 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 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 |
icon. If any service/hardware is down, it shows❗icon next to it.Update
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your password
The default password is common for all users, hence, it is recommended to have a new strong password for security, which is unique and memorable for the user. This step is applicable to the new users user only. All the onboarding users must go through this step and update the password qualifying the following minimum requirements:
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The dashboard screen provides the following information:
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Status
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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 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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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.
S3 Endpoint endpoint URL – A remote service endpoint
S3 Bucket Name bucket name – A name of the S3 bucket
S3 Access Key access key – An access key for the remote bucket, which must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.
S3 Secret Key secret key – An S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.
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This section contains all the apps integrated with Perifery. Currently, there is no app integrated with Perifery.
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This section provides two options; one is to view the content portal and another is to monitor the system status.
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content
Transporter is designed to make the task of providing basic S3 storage as simple as possible, for cases where a single user and a single domain are sufficient.
Go to Manage Content > click Browse Content, and this Manage Content. This will navigate to the full Content Portal where you can browse and search all the content (buckets, objects, etc.). The Content Porta Portal provides multiple functionalities including:
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You can learn more about these functionalities here. To know about how to utilize these capabilities, see Swarm Content UI.
For the latest Content UI release notes, see Content UI Release Notes.
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For Transporter users, the documentation provided above will help you safely store content in no time.
Status Details
Go to the Status Details > click View Dashboard. This will navigate to the <Grafana dashboard> where you can This section will help you monitor the current status of the system, once the Grafana dashboard is integrated.
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migration
This section helps to move data to the remote location (i.e. S3 destination). Data is available in a tabular format that contains 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.
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.
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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 endpoint URL – Enter the a valid target S3 endpoint URL.
S3 region - Enter the S3 region, it is optional.
S3 Bucket bucket – Enter the target S3 bucket where the content is to be moved.
Remote Folder folder – An optional folder path within the remote bucket.
Access Key Remote S3 access key – An access key for the remote bucket. It must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.
Secret Key Remote S3 secret key – An S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.
Click Move. A confirmation message appears:
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. |
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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:
In case the data migration report is failed generated for a bucket content and failed migration, the report is generated, then the Download button gets disabled on the report generation screen.
shows the reason for the migration error.
Click Download. It generates the bucket content report in JSON.
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User Profile
The user can view his/her the profile from the top-right corner of the screen, which contains two options Change Password password and Logout.
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Change
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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 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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