navsection: installguide
title: Create standard objects
navorder: 4
----
+...
h1. Create standard objects
}
EOF
</pre>
+
+h3. Keep disks
+
+Currently, you need to tell Arvados about Keep disks manually.
+
+<pre>
+secret=`ruby -e 'print rand(2**512).to_s(36)[0..49]'`
+arv keep_disk create --keep-disk <<EOF
+{
+ "service_host":"keep0.xyzzy.arvadosapi.com",
+ "service_port":25107,
+ "service_ssl_flag":false,
+ "ping_secret":"$secret"
+}
+EOF
+</pre>