Managing Gateways

Syndicate gateways are also managed with the syndicate tool.

Gateways

As previously stated, Syndicate uses 3 kinds of gateways to get data into and out of volumes:

• User Gateways (UGs) - The most common, which perform read and write operations on behalf of a user.

• Replica Gateways (RGs) - Work with a backend storage system to store data

• Aquisition Gateways (AGs) - Acquires data from another data management system

Creating a Gateway

Use the syndicate tool with the create_gateway option.

syndicate create_gateway name=$GATEWAY_NAME type=$TYPE volume=$VOLUME_NAME email=$SYNDICATE_ADMIN_EMAIL private_key=auto port=$PORTNUM

Options

• name=$GATEWAY_NAME : The name of the gateway
• type=$TYPE : The gateway type; AG, UG, RG
• volume=$VOLUME_NAME : Name of the volume
• email=$SYNDICATE_ADMIN_EMAIL : Email address
• private_key=auto : Automatically handle the key
• port=$PORTNUM : Port the gateway should run on, i.e. 31112