Using update commands with queried objects

DerekC — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:24:46 GMT

It appears as if I have to do a lot of extra steps in order to use update commands with the powershell sdk. For example, this is the detailed example for update-ncvol:

C:\PS>$q = Get-NcVol -Template
Initialize-NcObjectProperty $q VolumeIdAttributes
$q.VolumeIdAttributes.Name = "vol1|vol2"
$q.VolumeIdAttributes.OwningVserverName = "vserver1"
$a = Get-NcVol -Template
Initialize-NcObjectProperty $a VolumeIdAttributes
$a.VolumeIdAttributes.Comment = "Database volumes"
Update-NcVol -Query $q -Attributes $a

and it works when I try it out. I am trying to gather and then update a set of volumes from a cluster by doing this:

$volumes = Get-NcVol

foreach ($vol in $volumes){
    $replaceWith = Get-NcVol -Template
    Initialize-NcObjectProperty $replaceWith VolumeIdAttributes 
    $replaceWith.VolumeIdAttributes.Comment = "test comment"

    Update-NcVol -Query $vol -Attributes $replaceWith
}

But it doesn't work. Apparently I have no choice but to move information from the volumes I retrieved from the cluster to empty volumes in order to make it work?

For instance, this works:

$volumes = Get-NcVol

foreach ($vol in $volumes){
   $query = Get-NcVol -Template
    Initialize-NcObjectProperty $query VolumeIdAttributes
    $query.Name = $vol.Name
    $query.Vserver = $vol.Vserver
 
    $replaceWith = Get-NcVol -Template
    Initialize-NcObjectProperty $replaceWith VolumeIdAttributes 
    $replaceWith.VolumeIdAttributes.Comment = "test comment"
 
    Update-NcVol -Query $query -Attributes $replaceWith
}

Is it necessary to do all these extra steps? Wouldn't it make more sense if I could just use the queried vol object for the update command? Please let me know if there's a better way.

Thanks

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