topic Accesing the Filer for maintaince in Network and Storage Protocols

Accesing the Filer for maintaince

marficadmin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:33:20 GMT

Hi All,

We have a filer FAS 2020 with only ISCSI and cluster license; wanted to know how to access the filer if i need to update the firmware or carry any maintaince on the filer, on the other filer we mount it to a root host and access the /etc foler of the filer or access it using the CIFS shares.

Regards,

Vijay

Re: Accesing the Filer for maintaince

danielpr — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:34:12 GMT

Vijay,

If you dont have CIFS and NFS license then only Command line is the source for you. You have to login (telnet) into Storage system console and run CLI commands for your maintaince.

Re: Accesing the Filer for maintaince

marficadmin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:54:10 GMT

Hi Daniel,

In case we have to upload disk firmware onto the netapp how do we get inot the filer, i cnt use FTP/SCP file transfer; im not sure how to extract logs from the netapp or any files we require.

Regards,

Vijay

Re: Accesing the Filer for maintaince

danielpr — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:14:01 GMT

Vijay,

You can use "software get" to download it. It will keep it in /etc/software path.

Re: Accesing the Filer for maintaince

danielpr — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:32:24 GMT

Vijay,

Does “software get” solve your problem?

Re: Accesing the Filer for maintaince

gyorgy_gattyan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:55:10 GMT

Hi,

You can use Upgrade Ontap Utility to update firmware or ontap. You can find it on NOW site and free to download.

This utility designed for systems without CIFS/NFS licence.

Cheers,

- Gyuri -