Component overview – HP StoreAll Storage User Manual

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the share name is displayed with its peer share name in parentheses in the share name column.
For example, if you have a StoreAll REST API-enabled HTTP share named “share2” you will have
a peer share named “share2Ibrix”.

For example, assume you enter the following command, where ifs2 is the name of the file system:

ibrix_httpshare -l -f ifs2

Output similar to the following is displayed for the HTTP shares associated with the file system
named ifs2:

To see the share with its peer, enter the following command:

ibrix_httpshare -l -o -f ifs2

Output similar to the following is displayed:

Note that the GUI displays only the user specified share. It does not display the pair of shares. In
other words it does not have the equivalent of the ‘-o’ option on the CLI.

Always send your HTTP requests to the URL path of the share you have created, not to the share
appended by “Ibrix”. The API routes the request to the right share automatically. The “Ibrix”
appended share handles API queries and assignments (any URI with a string “?...” after the path/file
name).

Table 10 Overview of a REST API enabled HTTP share

How Exposed

Keep in mind

WebDAV Enabled

HTTP Share Name

GUI

Always send your HTTP
requests to the URL path

Yes

Share name specified by you

of the share you have
created, not to the share
appended by “Ibrix”. The
API routes the request to
the right share
automatically.

CLI

The “Ibrix” appended
share handles API queries

No

<share_name_specified_by_you>Ibrix

and assignments (any URI
with a string “?...” after
the path/file name).

Component overview

The StoreAll REST a number of components, such as custom metadata assignments, metadata
queries, and retention properties assignments.

Custom metadata assignment

You can associate any number of custom (user-defined) metadata attributes to any file or directory
stored on an IBRIX retention-enabled file system where the Express Query metadata store is enabled.
Each custom attribute consists of an attribute name and assigned value. The API provides commands
to create custom metadata entries for a file, replace values of existing entries, and delete entries.

StoreAll REST API

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