Question on new query syntax of ONTAP cmdlets

[WCMNETAPP]

Hi

I'm a huge fan of the new concise query syntax (eg Get-NcVol -Query @{TotalSize="<$(700GB)"}) but what is the equivalent, please, for the -Attributes argument (to limit the amount of data returned)?

At the moment, I'm putting (eg):

$attrs = Get-NcVol -Template

Initialize-NcObjectProperty -Object $attrs -Name VolumeSpaceAttributes

$attrs.VolumeSpaceAttributes.Size = ""

get-ncvol -query @{"TotalSize"="<$(700GB)"} -Attributes $attrs

to show only the "Size" attribute.

Regards,

Richard.

[beam · Accepted solution]

Hi Richard,

You can use the same syntax, just set the desired attributes to empty strings.  For example:

PS C:\Users\SBeam> Get-NcVol -Query @{"TotalSize"="<$(700gb)"} -Attributes @{"VolumeSpaceAttributes"=@{"Size"=""}}

Name                      State       TotalSize  Used  Available Dedupe Aggregate                 Vserver

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

beam01_root_vol                         20.0 MB                                                   beam01

clusterdisks                           400.0 GB                                                   beam01

ds4                                    500.0 GB                                                   beam01

powershell                             400.0 GB                                                   beam01

testvol                                 12.0 GB                                                   beam01

Thanks,

Steven

[WCMNETAPP]

Steven,

Many thanks for that.

Would be good to have some examples of this in the "Making the most ..." document as I'm sure "most" scripts only need to "see" a small subset of the available data (and so limiting the amount of data in this way would be a win all round).

Regards,

Richard.