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## Prerequisites

This is available only on MinIO as an extension to the NewerNoncurrentVersions feature. The following rule makes it possible to remove older noncurrent versions
of objects under the prefix `user-uploads/` as soon as there are more than `N` noncurrent versions of an object.

```
{
    "Rules": [
        {
            "ID": "Keep only most recent 5 noncurrent versions",
            "Status": "Enabled",
            "Filter": {

# Usage

## Single Payload Requests

Single payload requests are requests and responses that are sent in a single message.
In essence, they are `[]byte` -> `[]byte, error` functions.

It is not possible to return *both* an error and a response.

Handlers are registered on the manager using `(*Manager).RegisterSingleHandler(id HandlerID, h SingleHandlerFn, subroute ...string)`.

          └────────────┘                                        │   KMS   │
                                                                └─────────┘
```

In a given setup, there are `n` MinIO instances talking to `m` KES servers but only `1` central KMS. The most simple setup consists of `1` MinIO server or cluster talking to `1` KMS via `1` KES server.

The command will generate the `scrape_configs` section of the prometheus.yml as follows:

##### Cluster

```yaml

  unencrypted FTP communication (Not-recommended)

## Scope

- All IAM Credentials are allowed access excluding rotating credentials, rotating credentials
  are not allowed to login via FTP/SFTP ports, you must use S3 API port for if you are using
  rotating credentials.

- Access to bucket(s) and object(s) are governed via IAM policies associated with the incoming
  login credentials.

# Automatic Site Replication

This feature allows multiple independent MinIO sites (or clusters) that are using the same external IDentity Provider (IDP) to be configured as replicas. In this situation the set of replica sites are referred to as peer sites or just sites. When site-replication is enabled on a set of sites, the following changes are replicated to all other sites:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects

You may query the cluster probe endpoint to check if the node which received the request can be taken down for maintenance, if the server replies back '412 Precondition Failed' this means you will lose HA. '200 OK' means you are okay to proceed.

```
curl http://minio1:9001/minio/health/cluster?maintenance=true
HTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 0
Server: MinIO
Vary: Origin

MinIO supports two storage classes, Reduced Redundancy class and Standard class. These classes can be defined using environment variables
set before starting MinIO server. After the data and parity drives for each storage class are defined using environment variables,
you can set the storage class of an object via request metadata field `x-amz-storage-class`. MinIO server then honors the storage class by
saving the object in specific number of data and parity drives.

`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/node`.

The additional bucket specific metrics which include additional go metrics or process metrics are exposed at
`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/bucket`.

The additional resource specific metrics which include additional go metrics or process metrics are exposed at
`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/resource`.