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Vfiler Discovery

rakesh_patel — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:45:25 GMT

We have recently implemented DFM and successfully have discovered Physical System - However we am unable to discover the Vfilers.

Please can some one advice etc.

Re: Vfiler Discovery

agireesh — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:31:14 GMT

Hi Rakesh,

You need to set the storage system credentials to discover the vfilers.

Please follow the below steps to discover the vfilers of storage system.

1. Set the credential of storage system using “dfm host set <storage-system-name or ip> hostLogin <storage-system-user-name> hostPassword <storage-system-password>” command.

2. Execute dfm host discover <storage-system-name or ip> command

3. Wait for some time and then verify discovered vfiler using “dfm vfiler list <storage-system-name or ip> command.

Please revert for further clarification if any.

Regards,

Gireesh

Re: Vfiler Discovery

pradeepl — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:34:50 GMT

Hi,

Set the credentials of the storage system. Do a host discover and wait for vFilerTimestamp to get updated.

Now you can see the vfilers.

Regards

Pradeep L

Re: Vfiler Discovery

scottgelb — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:21:13 GMT

Some other vFiler options... dfm host discover is more for physical controllers.

dfm option set discovervfilers=yes # should be yes already

dfm vfiler add all -H filer x.x.x.x # add all vfilers for a controller

To see all vFilers discovered.. dfm vfiler list -a

Also, you can authenticate with NMC but you can also enter vfiler credentials from the cli

dfm host set dfmvfiler hostlogin=root

dfm host set dfmvfiler hostpassword=password

Re: Vfiler Discovery

martin_jencik — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:24:45 GMT

Hello guys,

I have most of the vFilers discovered in the dfm, but there is certain controller (I mean two of them as they are clustered) whose vFilers are not visible in the dfm. Have you ever, by chance, encountered such a behaviour?

hostlogin and hostpassword for the Controllers are set as on all other controllers:

dfm host set <Controller> hostLogin=Controller_login hostPassword=Controller_password

the option for discovering vFilers is set to enabled:

discoverVfilers Enabled

but still when I issue the command I get:

dfm vfiler add -H <Controller> <vFiler>

Error: Access denied. Please check host login and password for <Controller> (266701).

Martin

Re: Vfiler Discovery

agireesh — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:37:03 GMT

Hi,

Please check the “Last Updated” timestamp for vfiler monitor using “dfm host diag <controller-name>” command.

vFilerTimestamp Normal 1 hour 1 hour 11 Oct 20:19 Error 12 Oct 02:21

If vfiler last updated timestamp is old then run the “dfm host discover <controller-name>” command, once vFilerTimestamp is updated, then check the vfliers of controller.

Regards,

Gireesh

Re: Vfiler Discovery

adaikkap — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:14:17 GMT

Can you get the output for dfm host diag. As from the error message it clearly looks like the credentials are not set properly.

Regards

adai

Re: Vfiler Discovery

martin_jencik — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:02:09 GMT

folks, the output of dfm host diag:

Network Connectivity

IP Address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Network (discovery disabled)

DNS Aliases xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

DNS Addresses xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SNMP Version in Use SNMPv1

SNMPv1 Passed (50 ms)

SNMP Community xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SNMP sysName xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SNMP sysObjectID .1.3.6.1.4.1.789.2.3 (Clustered Filer)

SNMP productId xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SNMPv3 Passed (4 ms)

SNMPv3 Auth Protocol MD5

SNMPv3 Privacy Enabled No

SNMPv3 Username root

SNMP sysName xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SNMP sysObjectID .1.3.6.1.4.1.789.2.3 (Clustered Filer)

SNMP productId xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ICMP Echo Passed (2 ms)

HTTP Passed (2 ms)

NDMP (login not set) Skipped

RSH timed out

SSH Passed (10469 ms)

RLM Skipped (hostRLMAddress is empty)

XML (https port 443) HTTP POST - Authorization failed

Host Details

According to: DataFabric Manager server Host

Host Name xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

System ID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Model FAS6080 FAS6080

Type Clustered Storage System Clustered Storage System

OS Version 7.3.6 7.3.6

Revisions 330,8.0,2.1 330,8.0,2.1

Monitoring Timestamps

Timestamp Name Status Interval Default Last Updated Status Error if older than ...

ccTimestamp Normal 4 hours 4 hours 12 Oct 06:43

cfTimestamp Normal 5 minutes 5 minutes 12 Oct 10:37 Warning 12 Oct 10:38

clusterTimestamp Normal 15 minutes 15 minutes 12 Oct 10:28

cpuTimestamp Error 12 hours 5 minutes 12 Oct 10:02 Normal 11 Oct 22:43

dfTimestamp Normal 30 minutes 30 minutes 12 Oct 10:32 Normal 12 Oct 10:13

diskTimestamp Normal 4 hours 4 hours 12 Oct 10:07 Normal 12 Oct 06:43

envTimestamp Normal 5 minutes 5 minutes 12 Oct 10:37 Warning 12 Oct 10:38

fcTimestamp Normal 5 minutes 5 minutes 12 Oct 10:39 Normal 12 Oct 10:38

fsTimestamp Normal 15 minutes 15 minutes 12 Oct 10:29 Normal 12 Oct 10:28

hostPingTimestamp Normal 1 minute 1 minute 12 Oct 10:40 Error 12 Oct 10:42

ifTimestamp Error 12 hours 15 minutes 12 Oct 10:02 Normal 11 Oct 22:43

licenseTimestamp Normal 4 hours 4 hours 12 Oct 10:03 Normal 12 Oct 06:43

lunTimestamp Error 12 hours 30 minutes 12 Oct 10:26 Normal 11 Oct 22:43

opsTimestamp Normal 10 minutes 10 minutes 12 Oct 10:33 Normal 12 Oct 10:33

qtreeTimestamp Normal 8 hours 8 hours 12 Oct 02:43

rbacTimestamp Normal 1 day 1 day 12 Oct 10:02 Normal 11 Oct 10:43

userQuotaTimestamp Normal 1 day 1 day 12 Oct 10:04 Normal 11 Oct 10:43

sanhostTimestamp Error 1 day 5 minutes 11 Oct 10:43

snapmirrorTimestamp Error 4 hours 30 minutes 12 Oct 06:43

snapshotTimestamp Error 1 day 30 minutes 11 Oct 10:43

statusTimestamp Normal 10 minutes 10 minutes 12 Oct 10:34 Normal 12 Oct 10:33

sysInfoTimestamp Normal 1 hour 1 hour 12 Oct 10:02 Normal 12 Oct 09:43

svTimestamp Normal 30 minutes 30 minutes 12 Oct 10:13

svMonTimestamp Normal 8 hours 8 hours 12 Oct 02:43

xmlQtreeTimestamp Normal 8 hours 8 hours 12 Oct 10:09 Normal 12 Oct 02:43

vFilerTimestamp Error 2 minutes 1 hour 12 Oct 10:41 Warning 12 Oct 10:41

vserverTimestamp Normal 1 hour 1 hour 12 Oct 09:43

Performance Advisor Checklist

perfAdvisorEnabled Passed

hostType Passed

hostRevision Passed

hostLogin Passed

perfAdvisorTransport Passed

---I have also installed the additional plugin for Ontap ver 7..3.6 to /opt/NTAPdfm/plugins/filer with "dfm plugin add" but this seems not to be the problem.

Re: Vfiler Discovery

agireesh — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:02:32 GMT

Hi Martin,

Output of dfm host diag command show XML authentication is failed (XML (https port 443) HTTP POST - Authorization failed), due to that you are not able to discover the vfilers of controller.

XML authentication might be failed because

Ssl (httpd.admin.ssl.enable) is disable on storage system and “hostAdminTransport” of controller is set to “https”.

Please use “dfm host set <controller-ip-address> hostAdminTransport=http” command to change the admin transport of the controller and then check the XML is passing or not.

If XML is passed, discover the host using “dfm host discover < controller-ip-address >” command, check the vfiler timestamp and then check the discovered vfilers.

Regards,

Gireesh

Re: Vfiler Discovery

martin_jencik — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:40:22 GMT

Hi Gireesh,

I was wondering why the "dfm host diag" tested:

XML (https port 443) HTTP POST - Authorization failed

if the "dfm host get -q Controller-name" showed:

host=XXXXXXXXXX

hostLogin=root

hostPassword=********

hostLoginProtocol=ssh

hostPreferredAddr1=

hostPreferredAddr2=

hostPrimaryAddress=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

hostRLMAddress=

hostConsoleAddress=

cpuTooBusyThreshold=95

cpuBusyThresholdInterval=00:15:00

hostPingMethod=echo_snmp

hostAdminTransport=http <------------------------------------------this

hostNdmpLogin=

hostNdmpPassword=********

hostAdminPort=80 <--------------------------------------------------this

perfAdvisorTransport=httpsOk

prefsnmpVersion=1

useHostsEquiv=Yes

perfDataExportEnabled=No

defaultvFilerInterface=

processHostIP=

so I have changed the "hostAdminTransport" manually to "http" and after that the "dfm host diag" passed the XML (http port 80) Passed (20 ms).

However the vFilers could not been seen from that particullar controller after "dfm host discover <Controller-Name>".

Only after I have changed the "useHostsEquiv" to "No" and run the "dfm host discover" the vFilers have been found.

PS: for the other controller (cluster partner) I have changed only the "useHostEquiv" and ran the "dfm host discover" after that the vFilers from the partner are visible too. So no changing the "hostAdminTransport" to "http" manually.

dfm host diag ran on partner before the useHostEquiv switched to "No":

...

XML (https port 443) HTTP POST - Authorization failed

dfm host diag ran on partner after the useHostEquiv switched to "No":

XML (https port 443) Passed (40 ms)

"dfm host get" for the partner:

...

hostAdminTransport=http

I hope I have not made all of this too confusing by stating all. Why is the dfm host get showing other values and the dfm host diag is testing the other option?

THANK YOU Giresh and Adai with your great help I have figured out what the problem was ... and now the vFilers are visible on the dfm.

Message was edited by: Martin Jencik This is what I have found a while ago: https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=2013946