Iris

Warning

Iris is the integration of the Vision metadata management product with PixStor and Ngenea Hub.

The Customer acknowledges that the Iris-beta feature, platform and services are still in testing phase and are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and are believed to contain defects with the primary purpose of this beta testing licence being to obtain Feedback on performance and the identification of defects. From time to time, the Customer may be invited to participate in a new version or service feature that has not made generally available to Customers for production use and that is designated as beta, pilot, limited release, pre-release, non-production, evaluation or similar designation which does not form part of the Services (Beta Features). Beta Features are for evaluation and testing purposes, not for production use, not supported, not subject to availability or security obligations and may be subject to additional terms. Unless otherwise agreed, DataCore Software and subsidiaries and brands will have no liability for any harm, damage or losses of any kind arising out of or in connection with Beta Features, and the Customer uses them at its own risk. Beta Features may be discontinued at any time in DataCores Software’s sole discretion and may be choosen not to be made generally available.

Prerequisities

  • IRIS feature enabled on Pixstor. For further information refer to the PixStor Deployment And Configuration Guide.

  • Ngenea targets assigned to Spaces used for Iris

  • ngclient configured

Enabling Iris in Hub

Warning

Enabling the Hub iris-beta feature without satisfying prerequisites could cause user impact, or other unforeseen events.

The following actions must be undertaken by a system administrator.

Validate the iris-beta feature is available.

ngclient features list
[ ]  iris-beta    Enables the user-based access on the /spaces endpoint

Enable the iris-beta feature.

ngclient features enable iris-beta

Validate the iris-beta feature is enabled.

ngclient features list
[X]  iris-beta    Enables the user-based access on the /spaces endpoint

To disable the iris-beta feature, if required:

ngclient features disable iris-beta

For further information refer to Feature Flags.

Iris Spaces

After successful enabling of the iris-beta feature an additional option is present when creating Spaces or changing Space settings.

Enabling the Space for Iris:

  • enables the Space data to be accessed via S3 protocol by the suite of Iris applications (Vision, AI+, Ngenea)

  • creates an hourly schedule to send notifications of file changes within the Space to the Iris event queue. To change the schedule interval, edit the Schedule within Space settings or the Schedules page.

To enable Iris applications to access a Space, enable the Space for Iris.

Spaces Iris enable slider

Authentication

Access to Spaces by users of Vision is granted through Hub permissions.

Users can successfully access Spaces (Vision:’Buckets’) where:

  • the username in Hub and Vision matches

  • access to the Space is granted to the Hub user through an appropriate Hub group

An example of a compliant setup is:

Group Iris Access

Users requiring to access Spaces in Vision do not require Space Administration privileges.