What would YOU like to see in the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit?

[fjohn]

You likely have some base set of licenses installed on all your controllers, and some controllers may have additional licenses.  You could configure your script in such a way that you import the base, then do a license check before importing optional settings:

Import-csv base.csv | set-naoption

$Flexcache=get-nalicense |? {$_.Service -eq "flexcache_nfs"}
if($Flexcache.Code -ne $null) {import-csv flexcache.csv | set-naoption}

Imports the base, then checks for a flexcache_nfs license and imports those settings if the license is present.

J

[erick_moore]

I would like to see integration with DFM.  I guess that would be the DFM PowerShell Toolkit though eh?

[fjohn]

You must be peeking at the NetApp Managability SDK v4 to the right 🙂

J

[drwoodberry]

I found out why the options were not importing properly. I had some extra white space after the option in the csv. I did not notice it at first because I was using EXCEL to view the file, but when I opened it in wordpad I was able to clearly see it. I corrected these and then I was able to import.

[fjohn]

Glad to hear that you've got it.  It you look over in samples, you'll find an example of a small powershell GUI to import options.,  Hope this helps.

Happy Scripting

J

[rweeks_1]

As a previous poster noted, being able to configure network objects would be very useful:

• Interfaces
• VLANs
• VIFs
• IPSpaces

More vfiler capabilities would be useful also.  You don't have to tunnel all of these commands to vfilers especially with Data ONTAP 7.3.2 and later when many more ZAPIs were added to vfilers.

From the root administrator perspective, being able to do these would be much appreciated:

• vfiler migrate
• vfiler DR

From a general vfiler perspective, being able to configure CIFS shares or NFS exports would also be ideal.

[nashman69]

Is there a way to change individual user quotas on a vfiler using the toolkit?  If not, what is the easiest way to do so?

Thanks!!

[cknight]

You should be able to connect to the vfiler context like this:

PS C:\> Connect-NaController dunn -Vfiler vfiler1

OntapiMajorVersion : 1
OntapiMinorVersion : 12
Protocol           : RPC
Vfiler             : vfiler1
Name               : dunn
Address            : 10.61.167.60
Port               : 0
Credentials        :
ValidateIncoming   : False
ValidateOutgoing   : False
Trace              : False

PS C:\> Add-NaQuota -Type user -Target vf1user -Volume testvol -Qtree "" -DiskLimit 50g

Name                           Value
----                           -----
Threshold                      -
FileLimit                      -
DiskLimit                      53687091200
PerformUserMapping             False
SoftFileLimit                  -
QuotaError                     NetApp.Ontapi.Filer.Quota.QuotaError
SoftDiskLimit                  -

PS C:\> Get-NaQuotaEntry

Line        : vf1user    user@/vol/testvol    52428800K    -    -    -    -
Qtree       :
QuotaError  : NetApp.Ontapi.Filer.Quota.QuotaError
QuotaTarget : vf1user
QuotaType   : user
Volume      : testvol

[nashman69]

Thanks for the quick reply!  That worked perfectly.

[alphatwoadmin]

I'd like to have the ability to view the Event logs for the various components, unless I have missed this already! Specifically snapmirror events which could then be parsed for errors etc.

If this already exists please let me know!

Dan

[fjohn]

You can use read-nafile to place the contents of the snapmirror log in a variable.

$log=read-nafile /vol/vol0/etc/log/snapmirror.0

also see get-nafile

J

[alphatwoadmin]

Thanks fjohn,  exactly what I was after and works a treat. Loving Data ONTAP powershell, brilliant.

Dan

[bcoy]

I would like to be able to modify cifs shares specifically access permissions.

For example on the command line I would say "cifs access "Share" SID  Full"

Thanks.

[geneh]

I would like to be able to use the PSTK against archived autosupport data.

Thanks,

Gene

[cknight]

Hi, bcoy, thanks.  It appears the APIs for modifying CIFS shares' access permissions are fairly new.  I'll add that to the list to consider properly for an upcoming release (after Toolkit 1.1).

[cknight]

Hi, Gene.  Are you asking about the EMS data in /etc/log/ems?  Those logs are XML formatted, so they shouldn't be difficult to handle in PowerShell.