Overview of BOS Peripheral Tools
Last Updated：2021-09-13
BOS supports more than ten official tools to provide you with a convenient management mode in terms of data cloudification, data migration, and batch data processing. Furthermore, BOS also supports third-party tools to meet your requirements in a variety of scenarios.
Overview of BOS Tools
BOS Official Tools
BOS provides ten official tools. For more information, see the table below.
| Tool name | Tool description |
|---|---|
| BOS CMD | It is a command line tool that does not depend on the system environment, which supports the bucket and object-level operations and features powerful performance and complete functions. |
| BOS CLI | It is a BCE Python SDK-based command line tool that can perform the Create and Delete functions of buckets and the Upload, Download, Delete and Copy functions of objects. |
| BOS-Util | It is a batch processing tool used to solve the problem of massive data processing in BOS, such as batch metadata setting, batch file deletion, batch file renaming, directory change and total capacity computing of files in given directory. |
| BOS Probe | It is a self-test tool for uploading and downloading that can generate the problem report and give handling suggestions according to relevant information of current user network and command execution, to help the user for quick troubleshooting, problem location and solving. |
| BOS FS | It can mount the BOS remote service to the local file system to realize the convenient call and efficient management of the remote data for users. |
| BOS FTP | It is a Python-based FTP server tool that can convert the operation of FTP protocol into the operation of stored object and directory in BOS. |
| BOS Import | It is a data migration tool that supports the migration of the third-party data cloudification to BOS. |
| BOS Desktop | It is a GUI client that supports the Windows and Mac operating systems. It can manage and operate the storage resources through the BOS desktop, such as upload, download and deletions of files or folders, and it supports the automatic cloud synchronization of local files. |
| Offline Migration Box | It is a PB level offline data migration service provided by Baidu AI Cloud that supports the migration of massive data cloudification in local IDC through the offline device copy. |
| BOS HDFS | It supports the massive storage of HDFS data in BOS, and uses the standard HDFS interface to access, read and write the data in the upper layer data operation, to effectively solve the high operation cost and low scalability problems of self-built HDFS data. |
| Alluxio Extension tool | It supports the provision of unified client API and global namespace for upper layer driven applications (such as Apache Spark) of storage systems, such as BOS, HDFS, and S3. |
Third-party tools
BOS supports four third-party tools. These tools originate from the third-party forum or the third-party developer. You can select the appropriate tool for use according to your own requirements.
| Tool name | Tool description |
|---|---|
| Wordpress plugin | Wordpress is one of the mainstream blog site building tools. The photos, audios, and videos content in the blog usually occupy a lot of space. This plug-in can be used to automatically store the photos in the blog to the BOS cloud. On the one hand, it solves the occupation problem of local disk. On the other hand, it improves the browsing speed of multimedia, such as photos. |
| Discuz plugin | Discuz is one of the mainstream forum site-building tools. People can post and upload attachments in the forum. More and more attachments occupy a lot of space on the local disk. Therefore, the storage of attachments is always a problem. This plug-in is used to solve this problem. It can store the attachments in the forum to the BOS cloud. On the one hand, it solves the occupation problem of the local disk. On the other hand, it improves the download speed of attachments. |
| Ucenter plugins | UCenter is a plug-in under Comsenz. With the UCenter webmaster, it can seamlessly integrate with the Comsenz series products to realize the PHP framework for one-stop registration, login, logout, and interaction with other community data. The description of this plug-in introduces how to rewrite some codes of UCenter and upload the user photos to BOS in detail to save the occupied space of local storage and improve the display speed of photos. |
| Python flask | Flask is a Python-based web service framework. Flask can be used to implement the complex web service by using a few lines of codes. This tool helps users to perform the simple file upload, download and deletion operations based on BOS Python SDK in Flask framework. |