Solved: Re: List all Snapshots

ST123 · ‎2023-10-31

Hi,

I want to list all snapshots from a storage cluster per api call, but I get a different output on CLI vs API. API output is only from one SVM?!

API-Request: https://<cluster_mgmt_ip>/api/storage/volumes/*/snapshots

CLI: Cluster::> snapshot show

Best Regards

ST

JohnChampion · ‎2023-11-01

Confirmed - interesting the REST API even accepts a wildcard for the volume.uuid - I would expect it would throw an invalid URL error.

You can use the Private CLI method and get back results in standard JSON result/records format. The field names are the same as in the CLI - and you cannot use a wildcard (fields=*) with the private CLI method.

https://{clustermgtip}/api/private/cli/snapshot?fields=vserver,volume,snapshot,create-time,size,snapmirror-label

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JohnChampion · ‎2023-11-01

Confirmed - interesting the REST API even accepts a wildcard for the volume.uuid - I would expect it would throw an invalid URL error.

You can use the Private CLI method and get back results in standard JSON result/records format. The field names are the same as in the CLI - and you cannot use a wildcard (fields=*) with the private CLI method.

https://{clustermgtip}/api/private/cli/snapshot?fields=vserver,volume,snapshot,create-time,size,snapmirror-label

ST123 · ‎2023-11-02

I didn't know the /private parameter, exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

JohnChampion · ‎2023-11-02

If you look at the top of the ONTAP REST API Online Reference (clusterip/docs/api) under "Features for all ONTAP APIs" the last topic "Using the private CLI passthrough with the ONTAP REST API" has a good description and some examples.