PowerShell Examples to write to Swarm
PowerShell can be used to write and query objects on swarm clusters using the InvokeWebRequest method and InvokeRestMethod.
PowerShell should be installed on all Windows Server distributions since Windows Server 2008 R2.
Head a domain
The basic command is below but as you can see the response is a little garbled.
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local -Credential csadmin -Method Head
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local -Credential csadmin -Method Head
StatusCode : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content :
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Gateway-Request-Id: EDEA5D325623D3EC
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Age: 0
Allow: HEAD, HOLD, GET, SEND, PUT, RELEASE, POST, COPY, GEN, APPEND, DELETE
Castor-System-TotalGBAvailable: 7316...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Gateway-Request-Id, EDEA5D325623D3EC], [Gateway-Protocol, scsp], [Age, 0], [Allow, HEAD, HOLD, GET, SEND, PUT, RELEASE, POST, COPY, GEN, APPEND,
DELETE]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 0Here’s how we get the raw content of the head. The main change is to put the actual web request in brackets and add the .RawContent property.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local -Credential csadmin -Method Head).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Gateway-Request-Id: F25E93AD9740303A
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Age: 0
Allow: HEAD, HOLD, GET, SEND, PUT, RELEASE, POST, COPY, GEN, APPEND, DELETE
Castor-System-TotalGBAvailable: 7316
Castor-System-TotalGBCapacity: 11637
Castor-System-Cluster: demo.sales.local
Castor-System-EnforceTenancy: True
Policy-Versioning-Evaluated: enabled
Policy-Versioning-Evaluated-Constrained: no
Policy-ECMinStreamSize-Evaluated: 1000000
Policy-ECMinStreamSize-Evaluated-Constrained: no
Policy-ECEncoding-Evaluated: 4:2
Policy-ECEncoding-Evaluated-Constrained: no
Policy-Replicas-Evaluated: min:2 max:16 default:2
Policy-Replicas-Evaluated-Constrained: no
Castor-System-LicenseSerialNumber: 20150901073350-27708
Castor-System-LicenseCapacityTB: 20.0
Castor-System-LicenseLogicalObjects: 0
Castor-System-LicenseHealthReportingRequired: False
Node-State: ok
Content-Length: 2277
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:21:39 GMT
Expires: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 07:34:59 GMT
ETag: "a5aebae0e6524edcc9807d690e423cf2"
Server: CAStor Cluster/9.3.2
Via: 1.1 tony.demo.sales.local (Cloud Gateway SCSP/5.2.2)
PS C:\Users\Administrator>
Writing a file to a named object in a bucket
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test.txt -Credential csadmin -InFile C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\results.txt -Method Post
StatusCode : 201
StatusDescription : Created
Content : <html><body>New stream created</body></html>
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Gateway-Request-Id: 1FD002262BA6F902
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Content-MD5: QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==
Volume: 26fb3fcef16bb0e8b6d7979b149900b0,d5644e8ab59653c676d9653ccf6fe813
En...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Gateway-Request-Id, 1FD002262BA6F902], [Gateway-Protocol, scsp], [Content-MD5, QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==], [Volume,
26fb3fcef16bb0e8b6d7979b149900b0,d5644e8ab59653c676d9653ccf6fe813]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 46Heading the file to get the properties
PS C:\Users\Administrator> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test.txt -Credential csadmin -Method Head).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Gateway-Request-Id: 72633F2886C7EB4F
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Castor-System-CID: d735b15cc012fd455b361bbd0b9cd865
Castor-System-Cluster: demo.sales.local
Castor-System-Created: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:08:26 GMT
Castor-System-Name: test.txt
Castor-System-Version: 1510052906.155
X-Last-Modified-By-Meta: csadmin@
X-Owner-Meta: csadmin
Castor-System-Path: /tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test.txt
Castor-System-Domain: tony.demo.sales.local
Volume: d5644e8ab59653c676d9653ccf6fe813
Content-MD5: QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==
Content-Length: 12248
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:32:40 GMT
ETag: "af6b99f9b97fefdd791ec48c1b795f69"
Last-Modified: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:08:26 GMT
Server: CAStor Cluster/9.3.2
Via: 1.1 tony.demo.sales.local (Cloud Gateway SCSP/5.2.2)
Write a file with custom metadata header info
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test2.txt -Credential csadmin -Headers @{"x-color-meta"="blue, green"} -InFile C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\results.txt -Method Post
StatusCode : 201
StatusDescription : Created
Content : <html><body>New stream created</body></html>
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Gateway-Request-Id: 395B45C356E83051
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Content-MD5: QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==
Volume: fab7f8e5f10012f788f6cecb9f0a7212,c7be8d4e94b0572e91527f603a957ba3
En...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Gateway-Request-Id, 395B45C356E83051], [Gateway-Protocol, scsp], [Content-MD5, QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==], [Volume,
fab7f8e5f10012f788f6cecb9f0a7212,c7be8d4e94b0572e91527f603a957ba3]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 46
Head to see our color metadata
PS C:\Users\Administrator> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test2.txt -Credential csadmin -Method Head).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Gateway-Request-Id: DBC621E4EA2CC9C7
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Castor-System-CID: d735b15cc012fd455b361bbd0b9cd865
Castor-System-Cluster: demo.sales.local
Castor-System-Created: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:59:31 GMT
Castor-System-Name: test2.txt
Castor-System-Version: 1510055971.106
X-Last-Modified-By-Meta: csadmin@
X-Owner-Meta: csadmin
x-color-meta: blue, green
Castor-System-Path: /tony.demo.sales.local/emptybucket/test2.txt
Castor-System-Domain: tony.demo.sales.local
Volume: c7be8d4e94b0572e91527f603a957ba3
Content-MD5: QxBqF/BQrSn7HncxXmOfAw==
Content-Length: 12248
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:00:25 GMT
ETag: "57e6fcb1e02245365f8b66796f8233f1"
Last-Modified: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:59:31 GMT
Server: CAStor Cluster/9.3.2
Via: 1.1 tony.demo.sales.local (Cloud Gateway SCSP/5.2.2)
Create a domain
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://172.30.2.246/?domain=newdomain.example.com -Credential csadmin -ContentType application/castorcontext -Method Post
StatusCode : 201
StatusDescription : Created
Content : <html><body>New stream created</body></html>
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Gateway-Request-Id: 009BE8ED1E9C3FE9
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Content-MD5: 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==
Volume: fab7f8e5f10012f788f6cecb9f0a7212,44f685261e7c738e47d0286c600f6aa4
En...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Gateway-Request-Id, 009BE8ED1E9C3FE9], [Gateway-Protocol, scsp], [Content-MD5, 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==], [Volume,
fab7f8e5f10012f788f6cecb9f0a7212,44f685261e7c738e47d0286c600f6aa4]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 46
Create a bucket
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://172.30.2.246/newbucket?domain=newdomain.example.com -Credential csadmin -ContentType application/castorcontext -Method Post
StatusCode : 201
StatusDescription : Created
Content : <html><body>New stream created</body></html>
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Gateway-Request-Id: 289B9614BC6E650A
Gateway-Protocol: scsp
Content-MD5: 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==
Volume: 239ce9da91a90f77f5b8a7a838523945,c71439cffe50256aebea0c7ff0200bd8
En...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Gateway-Request-Id, 289B9614BC6E650A], [Gateway-Protocol, scsp], [Content-MD5, 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==], [Volume,
239ce9da91a90f77f5b8a7a838523945,c71439cffe50256aebea0c7ff0200bd8]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 46
Search for a bucket in a domain
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://172.30.2.246/?format=json"&"domain=newdomain.example.com -Credential csadmin -Method Get
last_modified : 2017-11-07T12:33:07.632400Z
hash : 02616848f4a99f59fbd668068226d867
content_type : application/castorcontext
name : newbucket
bytes : 0