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Overview
Perifery Transporter is an S3 native portable storage appliance. Featuring state-of-the-art data protection, Transporter is capable of storing Perifery Transporter can store data created at the edge and shuttling shuttle that content back to a base location. Perifery Transporter can be is 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 The system can be reset and made ready to go back out return on location once the data transfer is complete.
In the box
The following items should be are present:
The Perifery Transporter device.
A License USB key (this is *required to operate the Perifery Transporter).
A sheet with information about connecting to the device.
Set up
The setup requires three steps:
Plugin Plug in License USB key – Plugin Plug the License USB key into the Perifery Transporter device.
Plug into the network switch – Plug the Perifery Transporter device into a network switch. Your The computer/laptop must also be plugged into the same switch for the local network connection.
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 is accessible from the network once powered on. Consult the information sheet that came with the device for the URL to enter into your a browser to view the console.
Boot
Transporter device takes 2-5 mins to boot up.
Login
Once the device is ready, login into The boot process for Perifery Transporter can take a few minutes, depending on the amount of data stored. No user action is required.
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Perifery Transporter progresses through the following stages during boot:
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A confirmation message displays when the boot is complete.
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Perifery Transporter performs these same steps on every boot. |
Login
Log in to Perifery using the default username and password once the device is ready. These are also found on the included information 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 several a few minutes. |
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Enter the default credentials. For the first-time login user, the credentials are:
Username – periferyadmin
Password – password
Click Login.
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On the left side, the login screen shows some information about health of all services and hardware used in Perifery Transporter as per the last time the data was updated. If A |
Update your password
The default password is common for all users, hence, it is required to have a new strong password for security, which is unique and memorable for the user. This step is applicable to the first-time login only.
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The new password must qualify satisfy the following requirements:
Password length should be between 8-64 characters
Combination of at least one uppercase, lowercase, and number
One special character (e.g., @, #, $, !, %, etc.)
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New password – Enter the updated password. If it qualifies the above password criteria, all All password checks appear in green if the above password criteria are satisfied.
Confirm password – Re-enter the same password again.
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Click Update password. A message appears ‘Password updated successfully'.
Dashboard
The dashboard screen provides the following information:
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Status overview
This section provides an overview of services and hardware (including all the disks and drives). If any hardware or services are down, the status overview will provide that informationstorage devices. The status overview provides information if any hardware or service is not running.
- This status shows all the hardware /and services are working fine.❗ – This status shows all the hardware /and services are not up and running as expected.
Storage
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.
How to connect
This section contains access URLs and token information and provides an ability to copy either one by one or the whole all information (access URLs and tokens).
Click Copy all and paste in
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a text document to copy all (S3 endpoint URL, bucket name, access key, and secret key). These details are used when moving the bucket content to a remote location.
Copy access URLs and tokens one by one and save them.
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The S3 secret key is not visible by default. Click on the eye icon and copy the S3 secret key to view the secret key. |
S3 endpoint URL – A remote service endpoint.
S3 bucket name – A name of the S3 bucket.
S3 access key – An access key for the remote bucket, which must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.
S3 secret key – An S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.
To know more about S3 credentials, see https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/3134062601#How-to-Use-S3-Credentials?.
There are two ways to copy access URLs and tokens:
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 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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Uploading content using S3
This section explains how to upload content to Perifery Transporter using Cyberduck. This is being used for illustrative purposes, but the same information may be used for any application that uses an S3 connection.
Launch Cyberduck and click Open Connection.
Choose Amazon S3 from the dropdown list of protocols.
Fill in the following fields:
Server – The hostname of the Perifery S3 endpoint URL.
Port – A port in the Perifery S3 endpoint URL.
Access Key ID – The Perifery S3 Access Key.
Secret Access Key – The Perifery S3 Secret Key.
Verify the URL in Cyberduck matches the Perifery S3 Endpoint URL. It is okay if the port is not shown in the Cyberduck URL.
Click Connect.
Browse to the target S3 bucket in Cyberduck.
Integrated Apps
This section contains all the apps integrated with Perifery. Currently, there is no app As of April 2023 no apps are integrated with Perifery.
Advanced
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 Management
Perifery 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 Click Manage Content > click Manage Content. This will navigate , this 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:
Create and manage S3 tokens for security purposes.
Create additional tenants, storage domains, and buckets to support unique business workflows.
Manage content with Collections.
Take advantage of the Partial File Restore functionality.
You can learn more about these functionalities here. To know about how to utilize these capabilities, see Swarm Content UI.
For See Swarm Content UI to learn about utilizing these capabilities.
See Content UI Release Notes for the latest Content UI release notes, see Content UI Release Notes.
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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.
Data 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 – The migration target.
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 view be viewed in the a browser or download downloaded in raw JSON. This button gets is enabled only after the bucket is moved to the remote location.
The refresh icon is added to refresh the list of bucket names that have been added and are ready for migration.
Move bucket content
You can move the bucket content Bucket content can bed moved to the desired remote location using the below steps:
Click on the Move icon
corresponding to the bucket. It displays a form in the sliding panel.
Fill up in the required fields marked with asterisks (*). An example is shown in the screenshot below:
S3 endpoint URL – Enter a valid target S3 endpoint URL.
S3 region – Enter the S3 region, which is a geographic area of the storage if required by the remote storage vendor.
S3 bucket – Enter the target S3 bucket where the content is to be moved.
Remote folder – Enter a folder path within the remote bucket. This is optional.
Remote S3 access key – Enter an access key for the remote bucket. It must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.
Remote S3 secret key – Enter an S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.
Click Move. A confirmation message appears:
The S3 target is displayed in the S3 destination column for the corresponding bucket.
Report generation
The report icon gets is enabled irrespective of whether the bucket has been moved successfully or got failed to move to the remote location. To generate the report, refer Refer to the following steps to generate the report:
Click on the reporticon
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 This provides a preview of the bucket content report:
In case the report is generated for a failed migration, the 
The report shows the reason for cause of the migration error in case of a failed migration.
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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The Download button remains enabled for successful migration migrations whereas for migration failurefailures, the download button remains disabled. |
User Profile
The user can view the 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 four options:
About Perifery Transporter
Change password
Shut down
Logout
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About Perifery Transporter
This provides versions of the system and services used in Perifery Transporter.
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Change password
Refer to the following steps 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 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'.
Shut down
Navigate to the user profile > select Shut down. A confirmation message appears to confirm the action.
Click Shut down. It will safely stop all the services from working and power off the Perifery Transporter device.
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Verify that the License USB key is firmly inserted when powering on the Perifery Transporter again. |
Logout
Go Navigate to the user profile > select Logout to log out of the user account.