topic Re: data svm web service empty page? in ONTAP Discussions

data svm web service empty page?

kodiak_f — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:42:46 GMT

Hi Folks,

In case it's not obvious I'm a bit of a NetApp newb and inherited some clusters and am in the inventory and monitor stage of taking over administration of them.

Today I noticed that the SVMs have tcp/80, tcp/443 open and load a 404 when you browse to their root URL. This would not be the cluster or node management SVM, but rather various data SVMs.

This begs the questions:

- Why do the SVMs have web servers?

- Why do they load a 404 as the root page?

- I see docs on shutting this off via 'system services firewall' command set, but are there any reasons why a SVM web port should be open?

Thanks!

Re: data svm web service empty page?

nboggs — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:23:51 GMT

One example of a use for the web services in a SVM is the Ontapi service that allows api calls to the SVM. I'm not sure offhand if there are other uses but that is one of them.

Re: data svm web service empty page?

Mjizzini — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:31:58 GMT

If you manage everything at the cluster level, not at the SVM level, you can disable SSH/HTTPS access to the data SVM in ONTAP 9.5 and later

Re: data svm web service empty page?

kodiak_f — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:08:50 GMT

Thanks Nboggs and Mjizzini. I appreciate the info!