Hi All,   I have a few CIFS shares configured, I do see that the " Max Users" attribute value is set to a very high number.      Trying to gather the average number of concurrent users over a period of time. I am running Clustered Data ONTAP 8.x and hence trying to figure out a way via CLI or ONTAPI interface so that it can be gathered programmatically or via script. Would like to monitor this info on regular basis.    For example: On an average (or 95th percentile) how many concurrent users were seen over the last 1 week or 1 month?   Thanks in advance! ... View more

I am baffled by this particular issue and need some help.    I wrote a PowerShell script to add a role to several NetApp controllers. The command is as follows: $commands =  'security login role modify -role netapp-harvest-role -access readonly -cmddirname cluster identity show ' The error says: "  Error: "identity" was not expected. Please specify -fieldname first.     However, I ran the command on the cluster CLI and it works without a problem. Its not accepting the second argument in the -cmddirname  attribute. However, it does work with a single argument in this command.   I tried directly with "plink.exe" and  "Invoke-NcSSH"  but neither of them worked. Here is the command syntax for both.   Invoke-NcSSH Invoke-NcSsh -Command $commands -Controller $controllerip -Credential $credentials   PLINK plink.exe -ssh $controllerip -l $username -pw $secondpass -batch $commands   I am not sure whats wrong, but could use some help with this one.   Anyone have any ideas???? Thanks! ... View more

Does anyone know if there is an existing  PowerShell script that can be customized to automate a rolling ONTAP upgrade,  to upgrade the system from v9.0 to v9.1 then v9.1 to v9.3 and then v9.3 to v9.5 on a system with 2 HA clusters?  Is automating this process recommended, or is the manual upgrade a better best practice?  Thank you!! ... View more

Dear Community Team, I have a question about the domain controller discovery process if we have Active directory Load balancers in the environment and how it's going to behave in this scenario.  In one of the customer environments, active directory load balancers are used and the traffic will be redirected to correct regions domain controllers. In this case, the load balancer's IP addresses are added as preferred DC's. The added load balancers IP's are not Domain controllers so the CIFS discovered servers will show as unavailable and as per the theory of domain controller discovery, the available DC's will be selected based on query process/procedure. In this scenario, does adding the load balancer IPs to prefdc will redirect the requests to the correct domain controller? From my knowledge, I don't think so, as it won't find the correct SRV record as the load balancers are not of that type (Correct SRV records. )   What is the ideal method to use if we have load balancers (Active directory)   https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS/What_is_Domain_Controller_Discovery   Regards, Krishgudd ... View more

Need a clarification....We have proposed AFF A400 with 450TB effective capacity and will be using Async replication to DR. Distance is 1200Kms and Bandwidth is 100Mbps   Proposed Connectivity is 16G FC   How much RPO we can expect from asynchronous replication as per best practices ... View more