VAST Catalog CLI Quick Start Guide

This procedure is not yet finalized. Please watch for further updates.

Follow the steps below to get started using VAST Catalog CLI.

System Requirements

Obtain the following from your VMS administrator:

S3 access key pair
Host IP(s). This should be one or more IPs belonging to one of the cluster's VIP pools.

Download the image from the Docker repository:
```
docker pull vastdataorg/vast_db_cli:4.7.0
```
Note

If you cannot pull from Docker, you can download a tar file with the image instead. See here for details.
Download big-catalog from the VAST Catalog CLI repository.
Do one of the following:
- Move big-catalog into the bin/ directory.
- Make big_catalog executable: chmod +x big-catalog
Execute the script.

The VAST Catalog CLI is now installed.

To start using the VAST Catalog CLI, run the big-catalog configure command:

$ big-catalog configure
    Access Key: <access-key>
    Secret Access Key: <secret-key>
    Host IP: <Host IPs>
    Port: 80

Specify <Host IPs> as a comma separated list of IPs, or one IP.

VAST Catalog is now installed and configured.

For information about how to use the VAST Catalog CLI, run the following command:

$ big-catalog --help