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wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

unixservices — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:34:06 GMT

Hi,

could it be, that without a http license it is not possible to run https commands over the zapi?

eg:

perl apitest.pl -s 10.1.5.92 root mypass volume-list-info

gives me:

without the "s" everything works fine

10.1.5.92 is a vfiler!!!!! on the vfiler0 this command works fine, but i need it on the vfiler

greetz

Philipp

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

adamfox — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:31:00 GMT

An http license is not required. What version of the SDK are you running as well as ONTAP rev. Not all commands are vfiler-enabled. The docs are pretty good at documenting this though.

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

unixservices — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:56:26 GMT

the problem is not the command, because without https everything works fine, i only got the socket problem over https, but https is what i want (no clear passwords....)

i will post the ontap version next morning, when i will be in the office

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

unixservices — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:20:41 GMT

Hi,

ontap version is:

NetApp Release 7.2.5.1P1

The SDK is:

manage-ontap-sdk-3.0R1

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

adamfox — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:03:48 GMT

Hmm..I'm not sure if ssl is supported on vfilers. I can't seem to set it up in my lab (7.2.4). I can set up ssh, but not ssl which I can do on the physical filer (vfiler0).

This could be a limitation of multistore. I'll see if I can get someone from the SDK team to verify this as I'm not a developer.

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

adamfox — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:28:21 GMT

My suspicions were just confirmed. It's not a ZAPI issue, it's a MultiStore/vfiler issue wrt support for https. I don't have a timeframe for this support. You could open a case and make sure an RFE is filed to make sure it gets on the roadmap. And if it is already there, more customers asking for it always helps.

Re: wanna use zapi over https to communicate with a vfiler

adamfox — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:36:57 GMT

Stop the presses! 😉 Found a solution here that doesn't involve ONTAP changes.

There is a way in the SDK to connect to vfiler0 and tunnell an SDK request to a vfiler. Look up the na_server_set_vfiler call.

Hope this helps.