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rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:46:28 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm currently following this article in setting up snapvault for exchange https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1010129

I need to rsh to my vfiler which is the snapvault secondary and issue the snapvault update command, however when I rsh to the vfiler I don't have any options to type in snapvault commands or I couldn't see snapmirror commands either ? The user that i'm connecting as is full admin.

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

aborzenkov — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:09:08 GMT

You do not type commands after rsh'ing into filer. rsh is used to execute command which is part of command line, not to make interactive login.

rsh filer "put your command here", e.g. "rsh filer date"

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:18:45 GMT

we will have an interactive shell to a vFiler soon with 8.1... but for now non-interactive like aborzenkov listed... I recommend setting up ssh in the vfiler then use non-interactive ssh instead of rsh.. "ssh vfilername snapvault update". Although I suspect you might want to be running snapvault from vfiler0 since it isn't supported in Protection Manager at the vFiler... depending on what you are doing... check snapvault status to see where the relationship was created from/to (if the vfiler or vfiler0). If using vfiler0 for the vault, you can run the command from the rsh/ssh to the physical controller vfiler0.

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:27:05 GMT

Thanks guys, i'm not after an interactive login

I'm trying to run the following as an example: rsh vfiler snapvault status

It will be part of the script for snapmanager for exchange so that I can pass variable through i.e. $ExchSnapshot as %1 as it describes in the link I posted.

If I type rsh vfiler ? It lists the commands available but there isn't any snapvault or snapmirror commands:

rsh vfiler ?

? igroup ndmpcopy quota

exportfs ipsec ndmpd radius

filestats iscsi nfsstat secureadmin

fsecurity keymgr options sis

help lock passwd useradmin

hostname lun qtree

I know interactive ssh doesn't work with vfilers, but if I try non-interactive will that work as you said Scott ?

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:28:58 GMT

What ontap version? Rsh had some limitations but ssh will have all commands depending on ontap version.

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rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:32:26 GMT

we are using 8.0.1 7-mode

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:37:58 GMT

Setup ssh in the vfiler and run 'ssh vfiler ?' And you should see snapvault. If a script you can setup a public key so it doest need a password

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rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:41:36 GMT

Just tried that and same thing no snapvault or snapmirror commands

I was using putty's plink.exe

plink user@vfiler ?

? igroup ndmpcopy quota

exportfs ipsec ndmpd radius

filestats iscsi nfsstat secureadmin

fsecurity keymgr options sis

help lock passwd useradmin

hostname lun qtree

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:59:00 GMT

Odd. Should be there.. Does ssh user@vfiler 'priv set advanced ; snapvault' work?

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Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:16:18 GMT

actually can't run priv set in the vfiler context... can you rsh/ssh to vfiler0 and run "vfiler run vfilername snapvault update" ?

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:17:53 GMT

no doesn't work, priv doesn't exist on vfilers even on the cli console. Only on the vfiler0

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:29:06 GMT

I ran both ssh and rsh directly to a vFiler on ONTAP 7.3.5 and 8.0.1 7-mode...both have all commands... it was ONTAP 7.2 which had a subset of vfiler context commands but 7.3+ added all commands in the remote shell context. Not sure why the commands are missing from your vFiler. Snapvault is licensed in vfiler0? Does vfiler status -a show any disabled protocols?

vFiler created in 7.3.5 then 8.0.1 7-mode..

7.3.5

$ ssh root@192.168.150.201 ?

? hostname nfsstat snap

cifs igroup nis snapmirror

clone ipsec options snapvault

config iscsi passwd useradmin

df keymgr qtree vol

dns lock quota vscan

echo lun route wcc

exportfs nbtstat sectrace ypcat

filestats ndmpcopy secureadmin ypgroup

fpolicy ndmpd sftp ypmatch

fsecurity nfs sis ypwhich

help

$ rsh 192.168.150.201 ?

? hostname nfsstat snap

cifs igroup nis snapmirror

clone ipsec options snapvault

config iscsi passwd useradmin

df keymgr qtree vol

dns lock quota vscan

echo lun route wcc

exportfs nbtstat sectrace ypcat

filestats ndmpcopy secureadmin ypgroup

fpolicy ndmpd sftp ypmatch

fsecurity nfs sis ypwhich

help

8.0.1 7-mode

$ ssh root@192.168.150.201 ?

? hostname nfsstat snap

cifs igroup nis snapmirror

clone ipsec options snapvault

config iscsi passwd useradmin

df keymgr qtree vol

dns lock quota vscan

echo lun radius wcc

exportfs nbtstat route ypcat

filestats ndmpcopy sectrace ypgroup

fpolicy ndmpd secureadmin ypmatch

fsecurity nfs sis ypwhich

help

rsh 192.168.150.201 ?

? hostname nfsstat snap

cifs igroup nis snapmirror

clone ipsec options snapvault

config iscsi passwd useradmin

df keymgr qtree vol

dns lock quota vscan

echo lun radius wcc

exportfs nbtstat route ypcat

filestats ndmpcopy sectrace ypgroup

fpolicy ndmpd secureadmin ypmatch

fsecurity nfs sis ypwhich

help

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:09:36 GMT

that's weird, thanks for confirming that you can see the commands,much appreciated

yes snapvault is licensed from vfiler0, I have 5 snapvault relationships that i've just initialized fromt he vfiler.

0 protocols are disabled

Protocols allowed: 7

Allowed: proto=rsh

Allowed: proto=ssh

Allowed: proto=nfs

Allowed: proto=cifs

Allowed: proto=iscsi

Allowed: proto=ftp

Allowed: proto=http

Protocols disallowed: 0

Any other ideas ?

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:50:35 GMT

Sorry just saw this reply, yeah I can do that

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:53:19 GMT

I've also just tried on my simulator and I can see all the commands. Not too sure what is wrong with this vfiler though

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:06:54 GMT

Do you have a case open? It must be something simple but the output doesn't make sense from the vfiler.

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:28:43 GMT

Hey Scott, i've logged a case with Netapp, it's being escalated so when I hear back and have a resolution i'll update this post. Another thing I wanted to add though if I rsh to the base vfiler (vfiler0) I can see all the commands. If I create a new vfiler on the same system and rsh to that, I'm again missing most of the commands. Lastly I the version that i'm running is 8.0 7-mode not 8.0.1 7-mode as i mentioned earlier

Re: rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

scottgelb — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:24:29 GMT

It could be the ontap version.. I suspect that.. 8.0 I believe had 7.2 feature parity for multistore and 8.0.1 added 7.3 feature parity (except for data motion).

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rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:52:18 GMT

Hi Scott, I think you are right, i've just ran up the Ontap 8.0 7-mode simulator, created a vfiler and can produce exactly the same results, no snapmirror or snapvault via rsh or non-interactive ssh. So looks like an upgrade is due

rsh and vfilers. Snapvault and Snapmirror commands missing

davidrnexon — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:41:08 GMT

Just a quick update. I finally got around to upgrading the controllers to 8.0.1 last night and all the commands are now available via rsh. Thanks Scott