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SnapShot Status in Perl

heindeldba — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:19 GMT

I am writing a Perl script to automate attaching a SnapManager SnapShot as a drive on a server.

I have most of the command working, but I need to confirm the snapshot is not currently in use by SnapMirror.

Based on the code below, how do I get the SnapShot status?

my $result = $s->invoke("snapshot-list-info", volume => $Volume);
if ($result->results_errno != 0) {
print "\nError Code: " . $result->results_errno . " - " . $result->results_reason() . "\n";
return (-1);
}
my $snapshotlist = $result->child_get("snapshots");
if (!defined($snapshotlist) || ($snapshotlist eq "")) {
printf("No snapshots on volume %s\n\n", $parent_vol_name);
return (-1);
}
my @snapshots = $snapshotlist->children_get();
my $tmp = 0;
my $snapshot;
my $snap;
foreach my $ss (@snapshots) {
$MName = $ss->child_get_string("name");
$MTime = $ss->child_get_int("access-time", 0);
$MStatus = $ss->child_get_string("state"); ######### this is the value I am not able to get
}

Thank You,

Michael

Re: SnapShot Status in Perl

ryanc — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:16:48 GMT

Michael:

I think you are looking for the 'busy' child element of snapshot-info.

$MStatus = $ss->child_get_string("busy");

The raw results back from ONTAP look like this:

<snapshot-info>

<name>hourly.0</name>

<access-time>1297717253</access-time>

<cumulative-total>2836</cumulative-total>

<busy>false</busy>

<cumulative-percentage-of-used-blocks>0</cumulative-percentage-of-used-blocks>

<percentage-of-used-blocks>0</percentage-of-used-blocks>

<cumulative-percentage-of-total-blocks>0</cumulative-percentage-of-total-blocks>

<percentage-of-total-blocks>0</percentage-of-total-blocks>

</snapshot-info>

-ryan

Re: SnapShot Status in Perl

heindeldba — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:29:37 GMT

Thank you Ryan.

Through trial and error I was able to figure out that I needed to use "busy" last night. Thank you for the quick reply and sample output.

Michael