Managing tags
A tag is a custom metadata field that is used to supplement storage system metadata with organization-specific information. For instance, an organization might segment their storage by project or by chargeback department. Those facets do not show up in the system metadata. Additionally, the storage systems themselves do not provide management and reporting capabilities based on those organizational concepts. Use custom tags to store additional information and manage, report, or search for data by using that organizationally important information.
Permissions
- Security Administrators
- Cannot create, update, delete or list any type of tag.
- Data Administrators
- Create, modify, delete, and list Open, Restricted, and Characteristic types of tags.
- Data Users
- Can list any type of tag, and can create and modify Characteristic tags.
Types of tags
- Categorization
- Categorization tags contain values such as project, department, and security classification. Open and Restricted type of tags are Categorization tags. Size limit is 256 bytes.
- Characteristic
- Characteristic tags can contain any value that is needed to describe or
classify the object. Can contain lengthy values. Size limit is 4 KB.Important: You cannot use group values when you search for characteristics. Use this tag specifically, for values that are not grouped.