topic Re: I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share in ONTAP Discussions

I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share

Amitpandey — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:02:04 GMT

I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share but It is time taking if I do it manually and add them by copy paste ( it can be done easily if we need to add few servers )

Please help me with any automatic/Fast procedure to complete this request.

Re: I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share

SpindleNinja — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:53:43 GMT

You can do it by ranges -> https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/nfs-config/add-rule-export-policy-task.html

Re: I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share

Amitpandey — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:55:32 GMT

it has the same command which is vserver export-policy rule add-clientmatches -policyname XXXX -ruleindex X -clientmatches XXXX

I have more then 500 hosts to add in export list and If I use this above mentioned command for adding 500 ++ servers then I have fear that it will not work hence want to know if any easiest way to do it, I googled and got to know about netgroup to do it but did not find any proper procedure to do it.

Re: I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share

SpindleNinja — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:12:45 GMT

bulk add via Ansible ?

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/netapp/ontap/na_ontap_export_policy_rule_module.html

Re: I have a request to add more then 500 AIX servers in export list for one of NFS share

parisi — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:18:17 GMT

Netgroup is your best bet here and is external to ONTAP - you'd need a NIS or LDAP server. For the ONTAP side, you'd specify @netgroup name as the entry in the policy rule.

TR-4835 has a section on netgroups in AD starting on page 63:

https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/19423-tr-4835.pdf

If you want the "easiest" way, you could use 0/0 for "every host." The range method will work fine. Or you could do a subnet. (such as 10.10.10.0/24)

But there's no "easy" way to add 500 hosts to a rule other than the above.