April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
The OpenStack Object Storage service, also called Swift, provides object-based storage space for storing files. Unlike the block store, the object store is accessed using the API, and not the file system directly.
The Object Storage service writes its log files in /var/log/syslog (or messages on some distros). Logging can be customized by editing the log_name, log_facility, and log_level parameters in the object server configuration files.
To begin troubleshooting any issues with the Object Storage service, you must first ensure that the required services are running.
The following processes should be running on the node where Swift is installed: