Amazon Glacier Connector

Amazon Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup. This connector can be used as an Output connection to migrate your files from another location into your Amazon account. Amazon Glacier is also available as a content service connection which will allow you to view your files in the 3Sixty Discovery App to conduct federated searches of the data.

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Connector Compatibility  

Repo: No

Output: Yes

Content Service: Yes

Content Search: No

Manage In Place: No

 

More info on connection types

Authentication Configuration

  • Name: Unique name for this auth connector.

  • Client ID: The Access Key to connect to the client. For more information about AWS Access Keys, please visit this link.

  • Client Secret: The Secret key associated with the above Access Key.

  • S3 Region: The AWS Region where your instance is located, It will be in the AWS console. default is us-east-1

  • Glacier End Point: Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Proxy Fields

  • Proxy User: The proxy user to use. (Optional)

  • Proxy Password: The password for the proxy user. (leave blank if no proxy)

  • Proxy Protocol: The HTTP(S) Protocol to use to connect to the proxy.

  • Full Proxy Url: The Proxy Host (leave blank if no proxy).

  • Proxy Port: The port to connect to on the proxy. (Optional)

  • Proxy Domain: The Domain for the proxy.

  • Proxy Workstation: The workstation to use.

Integration Connection

  • Description: Description for this connection

  • Authentication Connection: Your Amazon Glacier Auth connector

Job Configuration

If you are using Amazon Glacier as an Output Connection you will need to fill out the following fields when setting up the integration job.

Output Specifications

  • Output Folder Path : Path where archive zip file is created before sending to Glacier.

  • Glacier End Point : Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

  • Glacier Vault : Name of the vault to store archive files.

Content Service Connection

This section covers the Glacier specific configuration of the Content Service Connector. For a description of how to set up a content services connector generically see Content Service Connectors.

Configuration

This section covers the Glacier specific configuration of the Content Service Connector.

  • End Point: Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

  • Vault Name: Name of the vault to store archive files.

Supported Methods

  • createFile: use vault name as the folderId parameter. If folderId is left blank, will use vault name in the configuration. Returns archive ID.

  • getFileContent: use the archive ID as the fileId parameter. Optional fileName parameter can be used to name the downloaded archive.

  • getObjectProperties

Note:  Get File Content waits until the archive is available from Amazon. This could take up to many hours depending on the archive policy.

API Keys

Amazon Glacier Connector: Read=false: Write=true: MIP=false

Output (Write) Specs

Key

Description

Data Type
outputfolderpath Output Folder Path String

endpoint

End Point. Overrides Region

String

vault

Vault

String

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