topic Re: Powershell for cDot in ONTAP Discussions

Powershell for cDot

olympus — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:13:20 GMT

Hey there,

I have connected to one of my vservers running on a cDot cluster version 8.2.3 p6,

as the following:

Connect-NcController <vservername> -Credential $mycred,

And I received a message saying that I'm connected.

After that, I have tried to run many commands, such as get-navol, get-naqtree and many more,

And I have received the following message everytime:

Get-NaVol : Value in $global:CurrentNaController is not of type NetApp.Ontapi.Filer.NaController
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-NaVol -Name <volname>
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-NaVol], ArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ControllerNotSpecified,DataONTAP.PowerShell.SDK.Cmdlets.Volume.GetNaVol

Do I have to specify the controller name although i'm at the vserver level?

Even when I do, I get the following error:

et-NaVol : Incorrect credentials for <vservername>.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-NaVol -Name vmis -Controller <vservername>
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (<vservername>:NaController) [Get-NaVol], NaAuthException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ApiException,DataONTAP.PowerShell.SDK.Cmdlets.Volume.GetNaVol

How come the credentials are incorrect if I'm already connected to the vserver?

Does someone know what is the issue?

Thanks a lot!!

Re: Powershell for cDot

JGPSHNTAP — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:55:43 GMT

The powershell cmdlets are split into 7-mode and cdot.

The 7-mode ones start with get-na

the cDot ones start with get-nc

Try this.

get-nchelp

Re: Powershell for cDot

J_curl — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:56:32 GMT

In addition to using NC commands, use connect-nccontroller to connect to the cluster, not a vserver. You can use it with -vserver to tunnel commands to a vserver, although I find that rarely necessary. Once you have a cluster connection object, any cmdlet that needs a vserver will generally have a -vserver switch you can use then.

$cluster = connect-nccontroller <your cluster> -cred $cred
get-NCVol -Name <volname>