IBM Cloud Object Storage

Managing account creation for IBM Cloud® Object Storage

Note: While using nginx as a load balancer with IBM Cloud Object Storage, ensure that invalid-headers and etag attributes are turned off for Transparent cloud tiering to work correctly. Without these settings, any Transparent cloud tiering request to IBM Cloud Object Storage would fail with errors that indicate signature mismatch.

Do the following steps:

To configure a new cloud object storage account for the IBM Cloud Object Storage version 3.7.2 and above, enter a command like the following:

mmcloudgateway account create --cloud-nodeclass TCTNodeClass1 --account-name
cscloud --cloud-type CLEVERSAFE-NEW --username  user1  --pwd-file MyFile.txt

Note: The username represents the access key.

The system displays output similar to this:


mmcloudgateway: Sending the command to the first successful node starting with 
vmip51.gpfs.net
mmcloudgateway: This may take a while...
mmcloudgateway: Command completed successfully on vm1.gpfs.net.
mmcloudgateway: You can now delete the password file 'MyFile.txt'
mmcloudgateway: Command completed.

To create a cloud account for deploying a WORM solution by using locked vaults, issue a command like the following:


mmcloudgateway account create --cloud-nodeclass NodeClass1 --account-name myCloud
 --cloud-type CLEVERSAFE-NEW 
 --src-keystore-path /root/test/testalias.ssl/testalias.jks
 --src-alias-name testalias --src-keystore-type JKS 
 --src-keystore-pwd-file /root/pwd/file.txt

To update an account:

/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmcloudgateway account update --cloud-nodeclass tct
 --account-name cleversafeaccount --username 5n0YjGWDvNiQP0ZsmzGl 
--pwd-file /tmp/cloudPW

To delete an account:

mmcloudgateway account delete --cloud-nodeclass tct --account-name
 cleversafeaccount