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Perifery Transporter is an S3 native portable storage appliance. Featuring state-of-the-art data protection, Perifery Transporter is capable of storing can store data created at the edge and shuttling that content back to a base location. Perifery Transporter can be used either as a standalone device or with existing in-facility Perifery or Swarm clusters. Data import from Perifery 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.

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  1. Plugin USB key – Plugin the USB key into the Perifery Transporter device.

  2. Plug into the network switch – Plug the Perifery Transporter device into a network switch. Your computer/laptop must also be plugged into the same switch for the local network connection.

  3. Power on the device – Press the power button to turn on the device. Once power is on, the device will be accessible via the networkThe device wis accessible from the network once powered on. Consult the sheet that came with the device for the URL to enter into your browser to view the console.

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Once the device is ready, login into log in to Perifery using the default username and password. These are also found on the sheet that came with the device.

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Login will is not be possible until all the services have fully come online. This may take a few minutes.

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This section provides an overview of services and hardware (all the disks and drives). If any hardware or services are down, the status overview will provide provides that information.

  • (tick) - 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 sees a bar view of consumed space out of the total space available.

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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 text document. These details will be are used in the future while moving the bucket content to a remote location.

  • Copy access URLs and tokens one by one and save them.

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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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Click Manage Content, this will navigate navigates to the Content Portal where you can browse and search all the content (buckets, objects, etc.) can be browsed and searched. The Content Portal provides multiple functionalities including:

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The UI skin of the Content Portal has been is improved so you will experience skin difference in images used in the documents.

For Perifery Transporter users, the documentation provided above will help you helps quickly and safely store content in no time.

Status Details

This section will help you helps monitor the current status of the system, once the Grafana dashboard is integrated.

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  1. Click on the reporticon (blue star) corresponding to the bucket.

    All the objects available in the selected bucket are displayed along with their object name and object status on a successful migration. It gives a preview of the bucket content report:


    In case of failed migration, the report shows the cause of the migration error.

  2. Click Download. It will either download or pop Either it downloads or pops up in a browser tab depending on how the browser handles the content type of the JSON file.

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