Syndicate Admin Tool

syndicate is an administration tool. It is used to manage the Metadata Service (MS), users, volumes, and gateways.

It has the following options:

Prerequisites

You must first Install Syndicate.

You will also need an admin user certificate or a standard user certificate. Please read about Certificates for more information.

Setup

Setting up the Syndicate Tool is a one-time task per a user and a machine.

syndicate -d --trust_public_key setup $SYNDICATE_USER $USER_CERT_PATH $MS_HOST

Parameters:

e.g.

syndicate -d --trust_public_key setup iychoi@email.arizona.edu ./iychoi@email.arizona.edu.pkey http://syndicate-ms-datasets-prod.appspot.com