HCP System Management Help


Supported operations

The table below lists the operations HCP supports and indicates which protocols you can use to perform those operations. Some operations relate to specific types of metadata. For more information on this metadata, see Object properties.

Operation HTTP WebDAV CIFS NFS

Write data from files or memory to a namespace to create an object

Transmit data to and from HCP in gzip-compressed format

     

Check for object existence

   

View the content of an object

Copy an object

Store new versions of existing objects

     

Append to existing objects

   

Delete an object that’s not under retention

Delete an object that’s under retention if the namespace configuration allows it

     

View object metadata

View a metafile

 

Override default index, retention, and shred settings when storing an object

     

Change the retention setting for an object

Hold or release an object

   

Enable shredding for an object

Change the index setting for an object

Change object ownership (not related to POSIX UID)

     

Change the POSIX UID and GID for an object

   

Change the POSIX permission settings for an object

   

Change the POSIX atime or mtime value for an object

   

Store, replace, or delete an annotation for an object

     

Store, replace, or delete the default annotation for an object

   

Store or retrieve object data and an annotation in a single operation

     

Store or retrieve object data and the default annotation in a single operation

     

Check for annotation existence

     

Check for existence of the default annotation

   

List annotations

     

Read an annotation

     

Read the default annotation

Store, replace, or delete an ACL for an object

     

Check for ACL existence

   

Read ACLs

Create an empty directory in a namespace

View the namespace directory structure, not including metadirectories

View the namespace directory structure, including both directories and metadirectories

 

Rename an empty directory (unless atime synchronization is enabled)

 

Delete an empty directory

Create a symbolic link

   

Read through a symbolic link to an object

Delete a symbolic link

List the namespaces accessible to you

     

List namespace statistics

     

List namespace permissions for the user

     

List the retention classes available in the namespace

     

These considerations apply to symbolic links:

If you use CIFS to create a symbolic link, you can read through the link only with CIFS. You cannot use CIFS to read through a symbolic link created with NFS.

HTTP and WebDAV support for reading through symbolic links is limited to retrieving object data. Other HTTP and WebDAV operations on symbolic links may produce unexpected results.

Tip: You can use the HCP Search Console to delete, purge, hold, release, change ownership, or modify ACLs on multiple objects with a single operation.

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