PowerScale: Secondary OneFS Cluster Configuration Failure
Summary: This article describes how to solve a failure of configuring a Secondary OneFS Cluster as a Cloud Storage Provider for CloudPools in OneFS 9.2 and later.
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Symptoms
In OneFS 9.2 and later, CloudPools cannot be configured between OneFS and OneFS with below error:
src-1# isi cloud accounts create cpoolaccount --type isilon https://128.221.250.54:8080/namespace/ifs/data/cloudtarget2 --account-username clouduser --key a --skip-ssl-validation true Access denied from remote server. Check credentials: clapi error: CL_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED; 401 src-1#
Cause
It is caused by disabling HTTP Basic Authentication as default in OneFS 9.2 and later.
Resolution
Enable HTTP Basic Authentication as shown below:
tgt-1# isi_gconfig -t web-config auth_basic auth_basic (bool) = false <<< default value in OneFS 9.2 and newer tgt-1# isi_gconfig -t web-config auth_basic=true tgt-1# isi_gconfig -t web-config auth_basic auth_basic (bool) = true tgt-1#
Article Properties
Article Number: 000195091
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2026
Version: 4
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