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Actions Supported by Policy-based Authorization

This section describes the actions supported by DCS in policy-based authorization.

Supported Actions

DCS provides system-defined policies, which can be directly used in IAM. You can also create custom policies to supplement system-defined policies for more refined access control. Operations supported by policies are specific to APIs. The following are common concepts related to policies:

  • Permissions: statements in a policy that allow or deny certain operations
  • APIs: REST APIs that can be called by a user who has been granted specific permissions
  • Actions: specific operations that are allowed or denied in a custom policy
  • Dependencies: actions which a specific action depends on. When allowing an action for a user, you also need to allow any existing action dependencies for that user.
  • IAM projects/Enterprise projects: the authorization scope of a custom policy. A custom policy can be applied to IAM projects or enterprise projects or both. Policies that contain actions for both IAM and enterprise projects can be used and applied for both IAM and Enterprise Management. Policies that contain actions only for IAM projects can be used and applied to IAM only. Administrators can check whether an action supports IAM projects or enterprise projects in the action list. "√" indicates that the action supports the project and "×" indicates that the action does not support the project. For details about the differences between IAM and enterprise management, see Differences Between IAM and Enterprise Management.

DCS supports the following actions in custom policies:

Table 1 DCS actions

Permission

API

Action

IAM Project

Enterprise Project

Querying instance upgrade information

-

dcs:instance:getUpgradeInfo

√

√

Listing background tasks

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/tasks

dcs:instance:getBackgroundTask

√

√

Querying details of a data migration task

GET /v2/{project_id}/migration-task/{task_id}

dcs:migrationTask:get

√

X

Viewing audit logs

-

dcs:auditlog:get

√

√

Querying instance configuration parameters

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/configs

dcs:instance:getConfiguration

√

√

Viewing parameter templates

GET /v2/{project_id}/config-templates/{template_id}

dcs:template:get

√

X

Listing parameter templates

GET /v2/{project_id}/config-templates

dcs:template:list

√

X

Querying instance restoration logs

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/restores

dcs:instance:getDataRestoreLog

√

√

Querying a DCS instance

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}

dcs:instance:get

√

√

Querying instance backup logs

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups

dcs:instance:getDataBackupLog

√

√

Creating a DCS instance

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances

dcs:instance:create

√

√

Diagnosing an instance

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/diagnosis

dcs:instance:diagnosis

√

√

Creating a user for accessing an instance

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/accounts

dcs:aclaccount:create

√

√

Deleting instance backup files

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups/{backup_id}

dcs:instance:deleteDataBackupFile

√

√

Viewing the task progress

-

dcs:job:get

√

X

Expanding instance capacity

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/resize

dcs:instance:scale

√

√

Upgrading the instance version

-

dcs:instance:upgrade

√

√

Querying the Redis session list

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/clients

dcs:clients:list

√

√

Rolling back IP address switching

-

dcs:migrationTask:rollbackIp

√

X

Killing Redis sessions

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/clients/kill

dcs:clients:kill

√

√

Backing up an instance

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups

dcs:instance:backupData

√

√

Releasing historical domain names

-

dcs:histroydomainname:release

√

√

Enabling or disabling public domain name resolution

-

dcs:publicdomainname:update

√

√

Modifying DCS instance configuration parameters

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/configs

dcs:instance:modifyConfigureation

√

√

Modifying SSL encryption for an instance

-

dcs:ssl:modify

√

√

Deleting an instance user

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/accounts/{account_id}

dcs:aclaccount:delete

√

√

Modifying a DCS instance

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}

dcs:instance:modify

√

√

Deleting a DCS instance

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}

dcs:instance:delete

√

√

Performing a master/standby switchover

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/swap

dcs:instance:swap

√

√

Changing an instance password

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/password

dcs:instance:modifyAuthInfo

√

√

Modifying migration task configurations or stopping a migration task

POST /v2/{project_id}/migration-task/{task_id}/stop

dcs:migrationTask:modify

√

X

Updating domain names

-

dcs:domainname:rebuild

√

√

Creating a migration task

POST /v2/{project_id}/migration-task

dcs:migrationTask:create

√

X

Modifying the information about an instance user

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/accounts/{account_id}

dcs:aclaccount:modify

√

√

Enabling or disabling audit logging

-

dcs:auditlog:modify

√

√

Web CLI

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/webcli/auth

dcs:instance:webcli

√

√

Deleting a migration task

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/migration-tasks/delete

dcs:migrationTask:delete

√

X

Enabling or disabling client IP pass-through

PUT /v2/{project_id}/{instance_id}/client-ip-transparent-transmission

dcs:clientiptrans:modify

√

√

Deleting a parameter template

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/config-templates/{template_id}

dcs:template:delete

√

X

Modifying a parameter template

PUT /v2/{project_id}/config-templates/{template_id}

dcs:template:modify

√

X

Switching IP addresses

POST /v2/{project_id}/migration-task/{task_id}/exchange-ip

dcs:migrationTask:exchangeIp

√

X

Downloading instance backup data

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups/{backup_id}/links

dcs:instance:downloadBackupData

√

√

Analyzing big or hot keys

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/bigkey-task/{bigkey_id}

dcs:instance:analyze

√

√

Restoring an instance

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/restores

dcs:instance:restoreData

√

√

Deleting a background task

DELETE /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/tasks/{task_id}

dcs:instance:deleteBackgroundTask

√

√

Resetting instance passwords

POST /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/password/reset

dcs:instance:resetAuthInfo

√

√

Creating a parameter template

POST /v2/{project_id}/config-templates

dcs:template:create

√

X

Modifying instance running status

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/status

dcs:instance:modifyStatus

√

√

Modifying the whitelist of an instance

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instance/{instance_id}/whitelist

dcs:whitelist:modify

√

√

Obtaining the whitelist of an instance

GET /v2/{project_id}/instance/{instance_id}/whitelist

dcs:whitelist:list

√

√

Querying slow logs

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/slowlog

dcs:slowlog:list

√

√

Obtaining the list of instance users

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/accounts

dcs:aclaccount:list

√

√

Listing instances

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances

dcs:instance:list

√

√

Listing migration tasks

GET /v2/{project_id}/migration-tasks

dcs:migrationTask:list

√

X

Listing tags of an instance

GET /v2/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/tags

dcs:tag:get

√

X

Modifying an instance tag

POST /v2/{project_id}/dcs/{instance_id}/tags/action

dcs:tag:modify

√

√

Querying SSL encryption of an instance

-

dcs:ssl:get

√

X