Transporter - Quick Start Guide

The whole setup is being done offline so it is advised to go through this quick start guide for setting up Transporter.

Step 1: Connect the device

Connect the ethernet cable with Transporter and your device to start the offline installation.

Step 2: Log into Perifery

1. Enter the email address and password.

2. Click Login.

Step 3: Update the password

Change the default password to a human-readable and memorable password. The new password must be between 8-64 characters including at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one number, and one special character.

1. Enter the new password and re-enter it again to confirm.

2. Click Update Password and Continue.
   A confirmation message appears that ‘Password changed successfully’.

Step 4: Dashboard

The dashboard screen provides:

• Hardware and service status

• Access URLs and tokens (S3 endpoint URL, bucket name, access key, and secret key)

• List of configured buckets

• A mechanism to move bucket content and report generation

• Links to browse all content via Content Portal and to monitor system status on the Grafana dashboard

• Links to third-party applications

Copy access URLs and tokens

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 into Notepad. These details will be used in the future while moving bucket content.

• Copy access URLs and tokens one by one and save them into a notepad.

Move bucket content

1. Click on the Move icon corresponding to the bucket which you want to move to a remote S3 location.
   A modal presents a form as shown in the example below:

2. Fill up the required fields marked with asterisks (*):

   1. S3 Endpoint URL – Enter the target S3 endpoint URL.

   2. S3 Bucket – Enter the target S3 bucket where the content is to be moved.

   3. Remote Folder – An optional folder path within the remote bucket.

   4. Access Key – An access key for the remote bucket. It must be generated within the remote cloud storage service.

   5. Secret Key – An S3 secret key. It is generated with the access key.

3. Click Move. A confirmation message appears.
   The target remote bucket contains the content moved from the source, and now the source bucket is empty.

Report Generation

1. Click on the report icon corresponding to the bucket.
   All the objects available in the selected bucket are displayed along with their object size and object status. It gives a preview of the bucket content report.

2. Click Download. It generates the bucket content report in JSON.

View Content Portal

Go to the Manage Content section and click Browse Content. This will navigate to the Content Portal to view all the content (bucket, objects, etc.).

Monitor System Status

Go to the Status Details section and click View Dashboard. This will navigate to the Grafana dashboard where you can monitor the current status of the system.

User Profile

1. Go to the top-right corner of the screen and click on the username. It shows two options, Change Password and Logout.

2. To change the password:

   1. Click Change Password.

   2. Enter the current password.

   3. Enter a new password and re-enter it again.

   4. Click Change. A confirmation message appears saying that ‘Password changed successfully'.

3. Click Logout to sign out of the account.