Create the access and the secret keys using the Access Appliance helper script in case you do not want to use the Active Directory Domain user to create and own the buckets. This is an alternative way to get the Access Appliance S3 server credential keys.

• Location of the helper script: /opt/VRTSnas/scripts/utils/objectaccess/objectaccess_client.py

• The Access Appliance helper script can be used from any client system that has Python installed.

• To run the script, your S3 client needs to have the argparse and requests Python modules.

  If these modules are missing, install both these modules using pip or easy_install.

• Add the ADMIN_URL name in your /etc/hosts file. The ADMIN_URL has the format admin.<cluster_name:port number> . The port number should be 8144. This url should point to the Access Appliance management console IP address.

• Create the access and the secret key using the Access Appliance helper script by providing the user name, password, and ADMIN_URL (check the online Help of the Access Appliance helper script for all of the provided operations like list key and delete key).

  Create a secret key:

  clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --create_key 
  --server admin.clus:8144 --username localuser1 --password root123 
  --insecure
  UserName                : localuser1
  AccessKeyId             : Y2FkODU2NTU2MjVhYzV
  Status                  : Active
  SecretAccessKey         : ODk0YzQxMDhkMmRjM2M5OTUzNjI5OWIzMDgyNzY

  The <localuser1> is the local user created on both the Access Appliance cluster nodes with same unique ID.

  List a secret key for the specified user:

  clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --list_key --server 
  admin.clus:8144 --username localuser2 --password root123 --insecure

  Delete a secret key for the specified user:

  clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --delete_key 
  ZTkyNDdjZTViM2EyMWZ --server admin.clus:8144 --username localuser2 
  --password root123 --insecure

• If the object server is enabled without the SSL option, you need to add the --insecure option.

  clus_01 ~# ./objectaccess_client.py --server 
  admin.clus:8144 --username <uname> --create_key --insecure