@Argus

I knew it would end up being me!

Thanks, I have cleared up the formatting in the file and enter at the end. I have finally proceeded to inventory.

And thanks for the quick response.

I am trialing Storware (seems great so far by the way), and attempting to connect to our Openstack and Ceph clusters. The Openstack cluster was a success, but I am having issues with the keyring for ceph, that seems to be corrupted/malformed during the upload process via the web ui.

• First, I test the ceph.conf and ceph.client.admin.keyring on the Linux command line of the Storware server and can connect to ceph and interrogate status, pg's and osd's. All OK.

• I use the same files to populate the storage provider for ceph and attempt to inventory. This fails with error:

[2024-10-09T10:54:11.754+0100 7f84ba345640 -1 auth: error parsing file /tmp/2ba47f3f-19fe-4827-9a69-2fac4fca0600/ceph.client.admin.keyring: cannot pa**e buffer: Malformed input [buffer:3]
2024-10-09T10:54:11.754+0100 7f84ba345640 -1 auth: failed to load /tmp/2ba47f3f-19fe-4827-9a69-2fac4fca0600/ceph.client.admin.keyring: (5) Input/output error

• I copy the files from /tmp/ over to /etc/ceph/ to test the same using the client on the server CLI, but get the same malformed error:

2024-10-09T10:55:45.685+0100 7f170584f640 -1 auth: error parsing file /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring: cannot pa**e buffer: Malformed input [buffer:3]
2024-10-09T10:55:45.685+0100 7f170584f640 -1 auth: failed to load /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring: (5) Input/output error

• I then open /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring (that was copied from Storware tmp files) in Vim, make no changes, but simply save the file again, overwriting it. The local ceph client now works successfully:

611 pgs: 611 active+clean; 7.5 GiB data, 36 GiB used, 56 TiB / 56 TiB avail; 7.7 KiB/s wr, 1 op/s

So, either the upload process via the webUI is corrupting the file somehow and the Vim overwrite is correcting that, or I am doing something stupid!?

Thanks,
AJ