Create a tenant user account

Use this task in Hitachi Content Platform to create a tenant user account to be used exclusively by Data Optimizer, not by an actual user. This user owns and has exclusive data access permissions to Data Optimizer buckets.

Note: The tenant user must not have any administrative role in the tenant beyond administration of the buckets they own. No users should have access to the data in Data Optimizer buckets at any time for any reason except when required by customer support.

Use the following steps in the Content Platform Tenant Management Console to create a tenant user account. See the Hitachi Content Platform product documentation for more information.

1. Navigate to Security > Users > Create User Account.

   The Create User Account panel opens.

2. In the Create User Account panel, in the Username field, type a login account.

   Adhere to the following guidelines:

   1. Choose a name like pdso-svc-usr, to indicate that the user is not a person but a software service.

   2. Do not enable any administrative roles.

   3. Select Allow namespace management.

      You need to do this so Data Optimizer instances can create buckets.

3. Click Create User Account.

   The text “Successfully created user account. Authorization token:” is shown, followed by a text string with two values separated by a colon. The value on the left side of the text string is the base64-encoded username for the ACCESS_KEY property, and the value on the right is the md5-encoded password to use for the SECRET_KEY property.

4. Capture the base64-encoded username and md5-encoded password to add to the Data Optimizer configuration file.

5. Edit the /etc/ldoData Optimizer configuration file and add the encoded username to the ACCESS_KEY property and add the encoded password to the SECRET_KEY property.

6. Save and close the configuration file.