VAST Data groups API
Groups are user groups that can be authorized to access any data on the cluster via any supported client protocol. The groups path provides: management of groups on the cluster's local provider, querying of external provider groups, and S3 access management for both local and external groups.
VAST Data groups API is one of 126 APIs that VAST Data publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Group. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and SDKs.
This API exposes 8 operations across 4 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against the base URL https://{vms-host}/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
VAST Data groups API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as ApiToken (ApiToken).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
ApiToken— Send current valid API token in an Authorization header with format Api-Token .basicAuth— Basic authentication using VMS user name and password
Paths & Operations 8
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 2 PATCH, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Groups are user groups that can be authorized to access any data on the cluster via any supported client protocol. The groups path provides: management of groups on the cluster's…
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Group (10 properties), GroupData (6 properties), PartialS3PolicyInfo (2 properties), LocalProviderData (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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