topic Re: How to get FPolicy connection time via C/C++ SDK ? in Network and Storage Protocols

How to get FPolicy connection time via C/C++ SDK ?

volkevolke — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:30:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

is it possible to get the time elapsed a server is connected to an FPolicy via the C/C++ API?

In the console one can see the information in the "fpolicy" command output under Connect time (here 00:05:57)

File screen servers

P/S Connect time (dd:hh:mm) Reqs

Fails

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

172.20.73.50

\\Test-FPolicy Pri

00:05:57

1567289

ServerID: 218

IDL Version: 1

SMB Request Pipe Name: \ntapfprq

Options enabled: async

I would like to get this information via the NetApp Managebility SDK.

I didn't find any API-Call which delivers this information.

For me that would belong to the server-info structure (to be retrieved via the API-call fpolicy-server-list-info)

but unfortunately there is no such value.

May be I've just missed the info in the SDK-Docs (SDK Version 5.2.1R1) or is querying for the connection time simply not possible?

Thanks in advance.

Martin

Re: How to get FPolicy connection time via C/C++ SDK ?

ekashpureff — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:02:52 GMT

Martin -

Looking through the API in ZExplore...

API: fpolicy-server-status-get-iter

Element: desired-attributes

Element: fpolicy-server-status-info

Element: connected-since

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.

Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff

Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp

(P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)

Re: How to get FPolicy connection time via C/C++ SDK ?

volkevolke — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:09:30 GMT

Hello Eugene,

thank you for your prompt answer.

Unfortunately the api call fpolicy-server-status-get-iter

seems to be available only for vfilers. (that we don't have in usage)

When I do the call on our FAS3240 (8.0.5 7-Mode) I'll get

errno: 13005 reason: Unable to find API: fpolicy-server-status-get-iter

But thanks a lot for mentioning ZExplore ... I wasn't aware of 🙂

Best Regards,

Martin

Re: How to get FPolicy connection time via C/C++ SDK ?

ekashpureff — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:36:00 GMT

Martin -

You're very welcome.

Yes, fpolicy-server-status-get-iter is a cluster mode API call.

Glad you got Zexplore out of it.

It's a very powerful tool.

Enjoy !

I hope this response has been helpful to you...

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.

Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff

Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp

(P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)