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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/alter/tier
Alters properties of an existing tier to facilitate resource management. To disable watermark-based eviction, set both high_watermark and low_watermark to 100.

Input Parameter Description

name
string
Name of the tier to be altered. Must be an existing tier group name: vram, ram, disk[n], persist, cold[n].
options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
status
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
message
String
Empty if success or an error message
data_type
String
‘alter_tier_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
data
String
Empty string
data_str
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /alter/tier endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.