Configuring Management Protocols on a Tenant

This section explains how to configure management protocols for each tenant on a Qumulo cluster.

After you create tenants on your Qumulo cluster, you can manage access for clients that connect to the cluster from the tenant’s network by enabling or disabling the management protocols for each tenant.

Important

Access to a management protocol lets a client use the protocol to view and modify resources across the entire cluster, not only within the client's tenant.
If you disable a management protocol, you can still access your cluster by using a physical or remote console.

Prerequisites

To configure management protocols, your user must have membership in a Qumulo role with the following privileges.

PRIVILEGE_TENANT_READ: Viewing tenants
PRIVILEGE_TENANT_WRITE: Modifying tenants

Enabling and Disabling REST API Access

The Qumulo REST API lets you manage clusters by using the qq CLI, Python bindings, and REST API calls.

To enable REST API access, run the qq multitenancy_modify_tenant command, specify the tenant ID, and use the --enable-rest-api flag.
To disable access, use the --disable-rest-api flag.

In the following example, the cluster begins to accept REST API traffic on TCP port 8000 on all networks assigned to the tenant.

$ qq multitenancy_modify_tenant \
  --id 2
  --enable-rest-api

Enabling and Disabling Web UI Access

The Qumulo Core Web UI lets you manage clusters from a browser.

Note
Enabling Web UI access doesn’t require enabling REST API access.

To enable Web UI access, run the qq multitenancy_modify_tenant command, specify the tenant ID, and use the --enable-web-ui flag.
To disable access, use the --disable-web-ui flag.

In the following example, the cluster begins to serve the Qumulo Core Web UI on TCP ports 80 and 433 on all networks assigned to the tenant.

$ qq multitenancy_modify_tenant \
  --id 2
  --enable-web-ui

Enabling and Disabling SSH Access

SSH lets you view logs and use the qq CLI by using a client to connect to nodes in a cluster remotely.

Note
Enabling SSH access doesn’t require enabling REST API access.

To enable SSH access, run the qq multitenancy_modify_tenant command, specify the tenant ID, and use the --enable-ssh flag.
To disable access, use the --disable-ssh flag.

In the following example, the cluster begins to accept SSH traffic on TCP port 22 on all networks assigned to the tenant.

$ qq multitenancy_modify_tenant \
  --id 2
  --enable-ssh

Enabling and Disabling Replication Access

Replication lets a cluster transfer data from a directory on one cluster to a directory on another cluster.

To enable replication access, run the qq multitenancy_modify_tenant command, specify the tenant ID, and use the --enable-replication flag.
To disable access, use the --disable-replication flag.

In the following example, the cluster begins to accept replication traffic on TCP port 3712 on all networks assigned to the tenant.

$ qq multitenancy_modify_tenant \
  --id 2 \
  --enable-replication