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+====================
+ Admin Operations
+====================
+
+An admin API request will be done on a URI that starts with the configurable 'admin'
+resource entry point. Authorization for the admin API duplicates the S3 authorization
+mechanism. Some operations require that the user holds special administrative capabilities.
+
+Get Usage
+===============
+
+Request usage information.
+
+Syntax
+~~~~~~
+
+::
+
+ GET /{admin}/usage HTTP/1.1
+ Host: {fqdn}
+
+
+
+Request Parameters
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``uid``
+
+:Description: The user for which the information is requested. If not specified will apply to all users.
+:Type: String
+:Required: No
+
+``start``
+
+:Description: Date and (optional) time that specifies the start time of the requested data.
+:Type: String
+:Example: ``2012-09-25 16:00:00``
+:Required: No
+
+``end``
+
+:Description: Date and (optional) time that specifies the end time of the requested data (non-inclusive)
+:Type: String
+:Example: ``2012-09-25 16:00:00``
+:Required: No
+
+
+``show-entries``
+
+:Description: Specifies whether data entries should be returned
+:Type: Boolean
+:Required: No
+
+
+``show-summary``
+
+:Description: Specifies whether data summary should be returned
+:Type: Boolean
+:Required: No
+
+
+
+Response Entities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If successful, the response contains the requested information.
+
+``usage``
+
+:Description: A container for the usage information
+:Type: Container
+
+``entries``
+
+:Description: A container for the usage entries information
+:Type: Container
+
+``user``
+
+:Description: A container for the user data information
+:Type: Container
+
+``owner``
+
+:Description: The name of the user that owns the buckets
+:Type: String
+
+``bucket``
+
+:Description: The bucket name
+:Type: String
+
+``time``
+
+:Description: Time lower bound for which data is being specified (rounded to the beginning of the first relevant hour).
+:Type: String
+
+``epoch``
+
+:Description: The time specified in seconds since 1/1/1970.
+:Type: String
+
+``categories``
+
+:Description: A container for stats categories
+:Type: Container
+
+``entry``
+
+:Description: A container for stats entry
+:Type: Container
+
+``category``
+
+:Description: Name of request category for which the stats are provided
+:Type: String
+
+``bytes_sent``
+
+:Description: Number of bytes sent by the RADOS Gateway
+:Type: Integer
+
+``bytes_received``
+
+:Description: Number of bytes received by the RADOS Gateway
+:Type: Integer
+
+``ops``
+
+:Description: Number of operations
+:Type: Integer
+
+``successful_ops``
+
+:Description: Number of successful operations
+:Type: Integer
+
+``summary``
+
+:Description: A container for stats summary
+:Type: Container
+
+``total``
+
+:Description: A container for stats summary aggregated total
+:Type: Container
+
+
+Trim Usage
+===============
+
+Remove usage information.
+
+Syntax
+~~~~~~
+
+::
+
+ DELETE /{admin}/usage HTTP/1.1
+ Host: {fqdn}
+
+
+
+Request Parameters
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``uid``
+
+:Description: The user for which the information is requested. If not specified will apply to all users.
+:Type: String
+:Required: No
+
+``start``
+
+:Description: Date and (optional) time that specifies the start time of the requested data.
+:Type: String
+:Example: ``2012-09-25 16:00:00``
+:Required: No
+
+``start``
+
+:Description: Date and (optional) time that specifies the end time of the requested data (none inclusive)
+:Type: String
+:Example: ``2012-09-25 16:00:00``
+:Required: No
+
+
+``remove-all``
+
+:Description: Required when uid is not specified, in order to acknowledge multi user data removal.
+:Type: Boolean
+:Required: No
+
+