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Retrieve Default Gateway From Existing SVM

SeifriedJ — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:15:16 GMT

Has anyone found a way in WFA to retrieve the default gateway from an existing SVM? I don't see any dictionary entries that include this information. Am I missing something?

Use case is building a workflow to clone an SVM to a new IP space for testing. I need to provide a default gateway in the creation step and would like to limit the manual input. I want to read the source SVM's settings and simply duplicate them.

Re: Retrieve Default Gateway From Existing SVM

SeifriedJ — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:16:59 GMT

Re: Retrieve Default Gateway From Existing SVM

mbeattie — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:41:38 GMT

Hi,

Do you think the following suggestion work for you?

Create a command that accepts the following input paramaters

SourceCluster
SourceVserver
DestinationCluster
DestinationVserver

The command would perform the following steps:

Use the "Invoke-NcSystemApi" cmdlet to invoke the "route show -vserver $SourceVserver"
Read the CLI output to variablize the destination, gateway and metric
Use the "Invoke-NcSystemApi" cmdlet to invoke the "route create -vserver $DestinationVserver -destination $destination -gateway $gateway -metric $metric"

This way you wont have to create a datasource for providing the default route. In your workflow you would place the command after you have created the vserver.

Here is an example of using Invoke-NcSystemApi:

https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/NetApp-PowerShell-Toolkit-4-5P1-released/td-p/138566/page/2

/Matt

Re: Retrieve Default Gateway From Existing SVM

SeifriedJ — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:40:31 GMT

Yeah, that's what I was planning to do as a workaround. I was just hoping the gateway information was available somewhere and I was missing it. Thanks.