Accounts

View the information that is shown about accounts in object storage systems.

An account is the top-level element in the storage hierarchy for OpenStack Swift-compliant object storage systems, such as IBM Storage Scale System.

OpenStack Swift organizes data in a hierarchy of accounts, containers, and objects. An account can contain a set of containers and each container can contain a set of objects.

The accounts and the containers that you can monitor in the GUI are determined by the role that is associated with your login account for the storage system.

To monitor all of the accounts and the containers, you must be assigned the role that is defined in the reseller_admin_role configuration option in the Swift proxy server. The default value for the reseller_admin_role option is ResellerAdmin.
Tip: To change the credentials for monitoring the storage system, go to Resources > Object Storage Systems, right click the storage system, and then click Connections > Modify Connection.
Additional information is provided about the following column headings:
Capacity Quota (%)
The percentage of the capacity quota for the account that was used when data was collected for the storage system. The quota limits the amount of file system capacity that can be used by the account. This column contains a value only if a quota is defined for the account on the OpenStack Swift object storage system.

The capacity quota is represented by a bar. The percentage of the quota that is used by the account is represented by the blue section of the bar and as a percentage figure on the bar. The available capacity for the account is represented by the light gray section of the bar.

If the used capacity value exceeds the capacity quota, the bar is shown in red and the quota value is represented by a vertical line on the bar. In this case, the percentage figure on the bar exceeds 100%.

In the following cases, the used capacity can exceed the capacity quota:
  • When the capacity quota is set after the object files are uploaded to the file system
  • When an object file without size information is uploaded to the file system

If a capacity quota value of zero is defined, the capacity quota bar is shown in red and a usage percentage value is not shown.

Capacity Quota (GiB)
The amount of file system capacity that can be used to store object data for all the containers in the account. This column contains a value only if a quota is defined for the account on the OpenStack Swift object storage system.
Containers
The number of containers in the account. A container can contain a set of objects.
Objects
The total number of objects in all the containers in the account.

An object stores data, such as files, videos, images, virtual machine snapshots, and other unstructured data. In IBM Storage Scale System, objects are stored as files on the GPFS file system.