topic Re: NetApp cabling in ONTAP Hardware

NetApp cabling

Hitesh123 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:58:39 GMT

Hi Experts i need help related to cabling.

Is there any way i can gather cabling information through CLI in CDOT. E.g. i have 4 shelfs in 1 stack and i want to understand how they are stacked(port 1 of shelf a is connected to which port of other shelf in stack) . I tried to use CA but dont know why it is not collecting cabling information. Cabling tab is blank in CA. I do not have physical access to storage.

Re: NetApp cabling

aborzenkov — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:47:37 GMT

Do you have FC or SAS shelves?

Re: NetApp cabling

Damien_Queen — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:42:11 GMT

do you have any disk shelves?

Re: NetApp cabling

Hitesh123 — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:23:36 GMT

I have SAS shelves connected through ATTO bridges. This is metro cluster confguration.

Re: NetApp cabling

AlexDawson — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:46:07 GMT

Hi there,

Unfortunately the cabling behind an ATTO bridge isn't visible through the CLI.

Sorry!

Re: NetApp cabling

aborzenkov — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:20:06 GMT

Cabling behind ATTO bridge can be traced. Here is example of (7-Mode/node shell) storage bridge and environment shelf output:

storage bridge:

SAS Port A:
QSFP Vendor:        Molex Inc.      
QSFP Part Number:   112-00177+A0    
QSFP Type:          Passive Copper 2m ID:01
QSFP Serial Number: 417721061


environment shelf:
	SAS cable information by element:
	  [1] Vendor: Molex Inc.
	      Type: QSFP passive copper 2m  ID: 00  Swaps: 0
	      Serial number: 417721061  Part number: 112-00177+A0

Just follow serial numbers. Shelf port numbers are documented in SAS adapter connected to misconfigured SAS domain