Testing your connection in the Swift API configuration

You can use the Swift CLI to test your connection to the StorageGRID Webscale system and to verify that you can read and write objects to the system.

Before you begin

You must have downloaded and installed python-swiftclient, the Swift command-line client, at https://swiftstack.com/docs/integration/python-swiftclient.html.
You must have created a Swift tenant account in the StorageGRID Webscale system.

About this task

If you have not configured security as described in configuring security information, then you must add the --insecure flag to each of these commands.

Steps

Query the info URL for your StorageGRID Webscale Swift deployment:
```
swift  
-U <Tenant_Account_ID:User_Name> 
-K <User_Password> 
-A https://<FQDN | IP>:<Port>/info 
   capabilities
```
This is sufficient to test that your Swift deployment is functional. To further test account configuration by storing an object, continue with the additional steps.

Put an object in the container:

touch test_object
swift  
-U <Tenant_Account_ID:Account_User_Name> 
-K <User_Password> 
-A https://<FQDN | IP>:<Port>/auth/v1.0 
upload test_container test_object 
--object-name test_object

Get the container to verify the object:

swift  
-U <Tenant_Account_ID:Account_User_Name> 
-K <User_Password> 
-A https://<FQDN | IP>:<Port>/auth/v1.0 
list test_container

Delete the object:

swift  
-U <Tenant_Account_ID:Account_User_Name> 
-K <User_Password> 
-A https://<FQDN | IP>:<Port>/auth/v1.0 
delete test_container test_object

Delete the container:

swift  
-U <Tenant_Account_ID:Account_User_Name> 
-K <User_Password> 
-A https://<FQDN | IP>:<Port>/auth/v1.0 
delete test_container