Solved: Data ONTAP Basic Command Please?

MAXSVEN2001 · ‎2012-08-15

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Data ONTAP OS and I have been playing around with the sims for a couple of months.

I had a look at the "Manual Page Reference, Volume 1 and 2" but there are basic linux style commands that I still can't find...

baisically, I'm looking for commands to :

1- "cd" change directory

2- "ls" ls files/directories

3- "cp" copy files from one directory to another

4- "mkdir" make new directory.

5- "ps" list running processes

6- "kill" kill a process.

7- piping and "grep" for a string. ex: ps | grep -i "string"

8- pwd "print workjing directory".

if someone can just include the Data ONTAP command for 1 to 8 I'd much appreciate it.

Thanks.

Max.

SNETAPPUSER · ‎2012-08-18

Those commands are available in advance mode & in diag mode. However, you should not use those mode unless it is necessary. Those modes ususally use by NetApp technical support team or NetApp PSE.

Antway, if you wanna try out (in sim may be), type 'priv set advanced' to go to advanved mode. There u can do ls, mv etc. Type 'useradmin diaguser unlock' to unlock diag user then type 'useradmin diaguser password' to set a password to diag user. Then type 'systemshell'. Username 'diag' password is your diag password.

DONT GO TO DIAG MODE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING

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DRUMDUDESAN · ‎2012-09-05

Hi,

It would be great to have the ability in Normal Mode or at least in Advanced Mode to have tail, grep and pipe to file for troubleshooting and checking the logs.

I think rdfile should have the ability to perform these actions.

filer01>rdfile tail -f /etc/messages

filer01>rdfile /etc/messages |grep error

Unless I am missing pages in the ONTAP manual it is not a feature.

Cheers

Jeff

peter_lehmann · ‎2012-12-18

piping, greping ... I always do this from the system I am administering the NetApp from (unix or windows)...

Like already mentioned in his answer, there is a secure option (SSH) or insecure (RSH). With windows, just use plink.exe and then | findstr to get what you are looking for.

Hope this helps.

Peter

PS I would NEVER use the diaguser/diagmode to do this stuff...

SNETAPPUSER · ‎2012-08-18

Those commands are available in advance mode & in diag mode. However, you should not use those mode unless it is necessary. Those modes ususally use by NetApp technical support team or NetApp PSE.

Antway, if you wanna try out (in sim may be), type 'priv set advanced' to go to advanved mode. There u can do ls, mv etc. Type 'useradmin diaguser unlock' to unlock diag user then type 'useradmin diaguser password' to set a password to diag user. Then type 'systemshell'. Username 'diag' password is your diag password.

DONT GO TO DIAG MODE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING

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sat · ‎2015-12-04

in diag systemshell mkdir is not working

mkdir: /etc/software: Read-only file system

MAXSVEN2001 · ‎2012-08-18

this answers my question... thanks a heap!

it looks like in this mode after i login with the diag user, the normal ONTAP management commands do not work... such as "vol", "sysconfig"... etc..

i wish i could find a document that would tell me the set of commands that you can run in each different mode..

would you know how I can pipe an output of a comman to a txt file in "normal mode"?

for example, i need to run "sysconfig -r" and save the output to a txt file that I can then CIFS to and read...

SNETAPPUSER · ‎2012-08-19

Your best bet will be non-interactive SSH / RSH session from *nix (linux, unix etc.) machine. For an example,

helios@athena ~

$ ssh root@10.1.1.60 vol status

root@10.1.1.60's password:

Volume State Status Options

vol0 online raid0, flex root, no_atime_update=on,

create_ucode=on,

convert_ucode=on,

maxdirsize=2621

helios@athena ~

Above is prompting for password because I am not using public key authentication. However, if you do so then, it won't ask for the password; quite helpful in scripts.

Just wanna add another example which uses RSH instead of SSH (again quite handy in scripts)

helios@athena ~

$ rsh -l root:your-password-here 10.1.1.70 aggr status

Aggr State Status Options

aggr0 online raid0, aggr root

helios@athena ~

Hope this helps..

Message was edited by: Sajith Rangama

AGUMADAVALLI · ‎2012-08-15

Few commands you specified will work using the following commands:

priv set advanced

java netapp.cmds.jsh - Which take you a prompt where you can run the linux commands.

thank you,

AK G

MAXSVEN2001 · ‎2012-08-16

this is exactly what I needed in terms of the commands however, it looks like I won't be able to use this prompt and still run normal ONTAP commands (ex: sysconfig)...

would you know what commands are equivalent to the ones I'm after in the normal or priv set ONTAP prompts?

vperumal · ‎2012-08-16

This post contains the list of commands that will be most used
and will come handy when managing or monitoring or troubleshooting a Netapp
filer.

sysconfig -a : shows hardware
configuration with more verbose information
sysconfig -d :
shows information of the disk attached to the filer
version : shows the
netapp Ontap OS version.
uptime : shows the
filer uptime
dns info : this
shows the dns resolvers, the no of hits and misses and other info
nis info : this
shows the nis domain name, yp servers etc.
rdfile : Like
"cat" in Linux, used to read contents of text files/
wrfile :
Creates/Overwrites a file. Similar to "cat > filename" in Linux
aggr status : Shows
the aggregate status
aggr status -r :
Shows the raid configuration, reconstruction information of the disks in filer
aggr show_space :
Shows the disk usage of the aggreate, WAFL reserve, overheads etc.
vol status : Shows
the volume information
vol status -s :
Displays the spare disks on the filer
vol status -f :
Displays the failed disks on the filer
vol status -r :
Shows the raid configuration, reconstruction information of the disks
df -h : Displays
volume disk usage
df -i : Shows the inode
counts of all the volumes
df -Ah : Shows
"df" information of the aggregate
license :
Displays/add/removes license on a netapp filer
maxfiles : Displays
and adds more inodes to a volume
aggr create :
Creates aggregate
vol create
<volname> <aggrname> <size> : Creates volume in an aggregate
vol offline
<volname> : Offlines a volume
vol online
<volname> : Onlines a volume
vol destroy
<volname> : Destroys and removes an volume
vol size
<volname> [+|-]<size> : Resize a volume in netapp filer
vol options : Displays/Changes
volume options in a netapp filer
qtree create
<qtree-path> : Creates qtree
qtree status :
Displays the status of qtrees
quota on : Enables
quota on a netapp filer
quota off :
Disables quota
quota resize :
Resizes quota
quota report :
Reports the quota and usage
snap list :
Displays all snapshots on a volume
snap create
<volname> <snapname> : Create snapshot
snap sched
<volname> <schedule> : Schedule snapshot creation
snap reserve
<volname> <percentage> : Display/set snapshot reserve space in volume
/etc/exports : File
that manages the NFS exports
rdfile /etc/exports
: Read the NFS exports file
wrfile /etc/exports
: Write to NFS exports file
exportfs -a :
Exports all the filesystems listed in /etc/exports
cifs setup : Setup
cifs
cifs shares : Create/displays
cifs shares
cifs access :
Changes access of cifs shares
lun create :
Creates iscsi or fcp luns on a netapp filer
lun map : Maps lun
to an igroup
lun show : Show all
the luns on a filer
igroup create :
Creates netapp igroup
lun stats : Show lun
I/O statistics
disk show : Shows
all the disk on the filer
disk zero spares :
Zeros the spare disks
disk_fw_update :
Upgrades the disk firmware on all disks
options :
Display/Set options on netapp filer
options nfs :
Display/Set NFS options
options timed :
Display/Set NTP options on netapp.
options autosupport
: Display/Set autosupport options
options cifs :
Display/Set cifs options
options tcp :
Display/Set TCP options
options net :
Display/Set network options
ndmpcopy
<src-path> <dst-path> : Initiates ndmpcopy
ndmpd status :
Displays status of ndmpd
ndmpd killall :
Terminates all the ndmpd processes.
ifconfig :
Displays/Sets IP address on a network/vif interface
vif create :
Creates a VIF (bonding/trunking/teaming)
vif status :
Displays status of a vif
netstat : Displays
network statistics
sysstat -us 1 : begins a 1
second sample of the filer's current utilization (crtl - c to end)
nfsstat : Shows nfs
statistics
nfsstat -l :
Displays nfs stats per client
nfs_hist : Displays
nfs historgram
statit : beings/ends a
performance workload sampling [-b starts / -e ends]
stats : Displays
stats for every counter on netapp. Read stats man page for more info
ifstat : Displays
Network interface stats
qtree stats :
displays I/O stats of qtree
environment : display
environment status on shelves and chassis of the filer
storage show
<disk|shelf|adapter> : Shows storage component details
snapmirror
intialize : Initialize a snapmirror relation
snapmirror update :
Manually Update snapmirror relation
snapmirror resync :
Resyns a broken snapmirror
snapmirror quiesce
: Quiesces a snapmirror bond
snapmirror break :
Breakes a snapmirror relation
snapmirror abort :
Abort a running snapmirror
snapmirror status :
Shows snapmirror status
lock status -h :
Displays locks held by filer
sm_mon : Manage the
locks
storage download
shelf : Installs the shelf firmware
software get :
Download the Netapp OS software
software install :
Installs OS
download : Updates
the installed OS
cf status :
Displays cluster status
cf takeover : Takes
over the cluster partner
cf giveback : Gives
back control to the cluster partner
reboot : Reboots a
filer

Pocket guide for netapp commands

This post contains the list of commands that will be most used
and will come handy when managing or monitoring or troubleshooting a Netapp
filer.

sysconfig -a : shows hardware
configuration with more verbose information
sysconfig -d :
shows information of the disk attached to the filer
version : shows the
netapp Ontap OS version.
uptime : shows the
filer uptime
dns info : this
shows the dns resolvers, the no of hits and misses and other info
nis info : this
shows the nis domain name, yp servers etc.
rdfile : Like
"cat" in Linux, used to read contents of text files/
wrfile :
Creates/Overwrites a file. Similar to "cat > filename" in Linux
aggr status : Shows
the aggregate status
aggr status -r :
Shows the raid configuration, reconstruction information of the disks in filer
aggr show_space :
Shows the disk usage of the aggreate, WAFL reserve, overheads etc.
vol status : Shows
the volume information
vol status -s :
Displays the spare disks on the filer
vol status -f :
Displays the failed disks on the filer
vol status -r :
Shows the raid configuration, reconstruction information of the disks
df -h : Displays
volume disk usage
df -i : Shows the inode
counts of all the volumes
df -Ah : Shows
"df" information of the aggregate
license :
Displays/add/removes license on a netapp filer
maxfiles : Displays
and adds more inodes to a volume
aggr create :
Creates aggregate
vol create
<volname> <aggrname> <size> : Creates volume in an aggregate
vol offline
<volname> : Offlines a volume
vol online
<volname> : Onlines a volume
vol destroy
<volname> : Destroys and removes an volume
vol size
<volname> [+|-]<size> : Resize a volume in netapp filer
vol options : Displays/Changes
volume options in a netapp filer
qtree create
<qtree-path> : Creates qtree
qtree status :
Displays the status of qtrees
quota on : Enables
quota on a netapp filer
quota off :
Disables quota
quota resize :
Resizes quota
quota report :
Reports the quota and usage
snap list :
Displays all snapshots on a volume
snap create
<volname> <snapname> : Create snapshot
snap sched
<volname> <schedule> : Schedule snapshot creation
snap reserve
<volname> <percentage> : Display/set snapshot reserve space in volume
/etc/exports : File
that manages the NFS exports
rdfile /etc/exports
: Read the NFS exports file
wrfile /etc/exports
: Write to NFS exports file
exportfs -a :
Exports all the filesystems listed in /etc/exports
cifs setup : Setup
cifs
cifs shares : Create/displays
cifs shares
cifs access :
Changes access of cifs shares
lun create :
Creates iscsi or fcp luns on a netapp filer
lun map : Maps lun
to an igroup
lun show : Show all
the luns on a filer
igroup create :
Creates netapp igroup
lun stats : Show lun
I/O statistics
disk show : Shows
all the disk on the filer
disk zero spares :
Zeros the spare disks
disk_fw_update :
Upgrades the disk firmware on all disks
options :
Display/Set options on netapp filer
options nfs :
Display/Set NFS options
options timed :
Display/Set NTP options on netapp.
options autosupport
: Display/Set autosupport options
options cifs :
Display/Set cifs options
options tcp :
Display/Set TCP options
options net :
Display/Set network options
ndmpcopy
<src-path> <dst-path> : Initiates ndmpcopy
ndmpd status :
Displays status of ndmpd
ndmpd killall :
Terminates all the ndmpd processes.
ifconfig :
Displays/Sets IP address on a network/vif interface
vif create :
Creates a VIF (bonding/trunking/teaming)
vif status :
Displays status of a vif
netstat : Displays
network statistics
sysstat -us 1 : begins a 1
second sample of the filer's current utilization (crtl - c to end)
nfsstat : Shows nfs
statistics
nfsstat -l :
Displays nfs stats per client
nfs_hist : Displays
nfs historgram
statit : beings/ends a
performance workload sampling [-b starts / -e ends]
stats : Displays
stats for every counter on netapp. Read stats man page for more info
ifstat : Displays
Network interface stats
qtree stats :
displays I/O stats of qtree
environment : display
environment status on shelves and chassis of the filer
storage show
<disk|shelf|adapter> : Shows storage component details
snapmirror
intialize : Initialize a snapmirror relation
snapmirror update :
Manually Update snapmirror relation
snapmirror resync :
Resyns a broken snapmirror
snapmirror quiesce
: Quiesces a snapmirror bond
snapmirror break :
Breakes a snapmirror relation
snapmirror abort :
Abort a running snapmirror
snapmirror status :
Shows snapmirror status
lock status -h :
Displays locks held by filer
sm_mon : Manage the
locks
storage download
shelf : Installs the shelf firmware
software get :
Download the Netapp OS software
software install :
Installs OS
download : Updates
the installed OS
cf status :
Displays cluster status
cf takeover : Takes
over the cluster partner
cf giveback : Gives
back control to the cluster partner
reboot : Reboots a
filer

chidam · ‎2016-01-19

Its very good sir !!

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2012-12-17

Dear Sir,

This is Vinit, Very good list of net app commands.

Sir, want to know how do we use net app simulator, can you provide any guide for a fresher.

Thanks & Regards,

Vinit pandey

MAXSVEN2001 · ‎2012-08-17

Thanks for this very handy answer...

still however no mention of any command that would achieve what i'm looking for...

vladimirzhigulin · ‎2012-08-15

Hi,

Please have a look at the file I've attached, it helped me a lot when started with OnTAP.

Vladimir

MAXSVEN2001 · ‎2012-08-16

very helpful thanks a heap!

however, it does not contain any commands for what i'm after...

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