VAST Data vastcatalogconfig API
The bigcatalogconfig endpoint enables you to manage the configuration of VAST Catalog and to query the VAST Catalog. VAST Catalog is a database that indexes metadata attributes of all data on the cluster, enabling high performance querying of files, objects and directories based on classification of data according to attributes used by multiple access protocols. VAST catalog indexes the metadata attributes of the cluster's data from periodic snapshots of the cluster's data. The database is stored on a dedicated S3 bucket on the cluster.
VAST Data vastcatalogconfig 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 vastcatalogconfig. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and SDKs.
This API exposes 9 operations across 5 paths, and defines 11 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 vastcatalogconfig 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 9
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 1 DELETE, 5 GET, 1 PATCH, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
The bigcatalogconfig endpoint enables you to manage the configuration of VAST Catalog and to query the VAST Catalog. VAST Catalog is a database that indexes metadata attributes of…
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ProtectionPolicy (26 properties), QueryDataOutputSchema (4 properties), TabularTableHierarchy (4 properties), Frame (4 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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