topic Re: Is (na_results_status(out)!=NA_OK) sufficient? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-na-results-status-out-NA-OK-sufficient/m-p/60519#M14241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It looks like the status returned by <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">snapshot-multicreate</SPAN> works a bit differently from other APIs for Clustered ONTAP. The <A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.netapp.com/docs/DOC-24987" target="_blank">documentation</A> notes:</P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"><P>For clustered systems, the output 'status' will be set to FALSE in case of failure. In such case the caller should look at the output 'volume-errors' to find out in which volume snapshot creation failed.</P></PRE><P></P><P>So in most cases, keep checking for <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">NA_OK</SPAN>. But here, check the <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">status</SPAN> output.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:00:41 GMT zulanch 2013-07-10T15:00:41Z Is (na_results_status(out)!=NA_OK) sufficient? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-na-results-status-out-NA-OK-sufficient/m-p/60514#M14240 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Looking at the sample code it always seems to just check na_results_status(out)&nbsp; for not NA_OK as an indication of error. In most cases it we got NA_OK it says we're good.</P><P></P><P>I'm trying to use snapshot-multicreate and it seems I can get na_results_status(out) as NA_OK but the call didn't work. What SHOULD I check...</P><P>Options seem to be to see if there was any &lt;volume-error&gt; tag or a &lt;status&gt;false&lt;/status&gt;. I'm still surprised that I didn't get a non OK result from na_results_status(out)</P><P></P><P>This is ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode. The output buffer looks like:</P><P>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?&gt;</P><P><SPAN>&lt;netapp version='1.20' xmlns='</SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.netapp.com/filer/admin" target="_blank">http://www.netapp.com/filer/admin</A><SPAN>'&gt;</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;results status='passed'&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;status&gt;false&lt;/status&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-errors&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-error&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;errno&gt;13025&lt;/errno&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;name&gt;vol_mt_14&lt;/name&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;reason&gt;Snapshot operation failed: No space left on device.&lt;/reason&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/volume-error&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/volume-errors&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-is-snapcreated-list&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;is-snapcreated&gt;false&lt;/is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;name&gt;vol_mt_00&lt;/name&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;is-snapcreated&gt;false&lt;/is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;name&gt;vol_mt_01&lt;/name&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;is-snapcreated&gt;false&lt;/is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;name&gt;vol_mt_02&lt;/name&gt;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/volume-is-snapcreated&gt;</P><P>...</P><P></P><P>... </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:58:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-na-results-status-out-NA-OK-sufficient/m-p/60514#M14240 garethgriffiths 2025-06-05T05:58:46Z Re: Is (na_results_status(out)!=NA_OK) sufficient? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-na-results-status-out-NA-OK-sufficient/m-p/60519#M14241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It looks like the status returned by <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">snapshot-multicreate</SPAN> works a bit differently from other APIs for Clustered ONTAP. The <A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.netapp.com/docs/DOC-24987" target="_blank">documentation</A> notes:</P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"><P>For clustered systems, the output 'status' will be set to FALSE in case of failure. In such case the caller should look at the output 'volume-errors' to find out in which volume snapshot creation failed.</P></PRE><P></P><P>So in most cases, keep checking for <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">NA_OK</SPAN>. But here, check the <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">status</SPAN> output.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:00:41 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-na-results-status-out-NA-OK-sufficient/m-p/60519#M14241 zulanch 2013-07-10T15:00:41Z