dispersion.conf(5) - Linux man page

Name

dispersion.conf - configuration file for the openstack-swift dispersion tools

Synopsis

dispersion.conf

Description

This is the configuration file used by the dispersion populate and report tools. The file format consists of the '[dispersion]' module as the header and available parameters. Any line that begins with a '#' symbol is ignored.

Parameters

auth_url

Authentication system URL
auth_user: Authentication system account/user name
auth_key: Authentication system account/user password
swift_dir: Location of openstack-swift configuration and ring files
dispersion_coverage: Percentage of partition coverage to use. The default is 1
retries: Maximum number of attempts
concurrency: Maximum number of concurrencies to

Sample

[dispersion]

auth_url = https://127.0.0.1:443/auth/v1.0
auth_user = dpstats:dpstats
auth_key = dpstats
swift_dir = /etc/swift
# dispersion_coverage = 1
# retries = 5
# concurrency = 25
# dump_json = no

Documentation

More in depth documentation about the swift-dispersion utilities and also Openstack-Swift as a whole can be found at http://swift.openstack.org/admin_guide.html#cluster-health and http://swift.openstack.org