In the Data ONTAP PowerShell toolkit 1.1, create an array of strings, on for each home directory path.  Then use set-nacifshomedirectory to load the array.  This is analogous to manually editing cifs_homdir.cfg and then executing "cifs homedir load" from the console.  If you want to add a batch of home directories to an existing list, then you'll want to get-nacifshomedirectory, dump the results to an array, append your new user home directories, then use set-nacifshomedirectory. Cmdlet: Set-NaCifsHomeDirectory NAME     Set-NaCifsHomeDirectory     SYNOPSIS     Provides a list of CIFS home directory paths for the controller.     SYNTAX     Set-NaCifsHomeDirectory [-Paths] <String[]> [-Force] [-Controller <NaControl     ler>] [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [<Comm     onParameters>]         DESCRIPTION     Provides a list of CIFS home directory paths for the controller. Replaces th     e current list of paths in use by the controller. Note that supplying an emp     ty path list causes controller to delete any current entries.     PARAMETERS     -Paths <String[]>         An array, one entry per each CIFS home directory path.                 Required?                    true         Position?                    1         Default value                        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)         Accept wildcard characters?  false             -Force         If true, the new set of homedir paths will be put into use even if some         user homedir connections will be broken. This can cause users with open         files in their home directories to lose access to the files. A user can         lose data if there are updates not yet committed to disk.                 Required?                    false         Position?                    named         Default value                        Accept pipeline input?       false         Accept wildcard characters?  false             -Controller <NaController>         The DataONTAP controller object, embodied by an NaController object.  Th         is parameter is returned by the Connect-NaController cmdlet.  If not spe         cified, the value in the global variable CurrentNaController is used.                 Required?                    false         Position?                    named         Default value                        Accept pipeline input?       false         Accept wildcard characters?  false             -WarningAction <ActionPreference>                         Required?                    false         Position?                    named         Default value                        Accept pipeline input?       false         Accept wildcard characters?  false             -WarningVariable <String>                         Required?                    false         Position?                    named         Default value                        Accept pipeline input?       false         Accept wildcard characters?  false             <CommonParameters>         This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,         ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,         OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type,         "get-help about_commonparameters".     INPUTS              OUTPUTS     NetApp.Ontapi.Filer.Cifs.PathErrorInfo          NOTES                 Category: cifs         API: cifs-homedir-paths-set         --------------  Example 1 --------------         C:\PS>Set-NaCifsHomeDirectory "/vol/vol0/user1","/vol/vol0/user2","/vol/vol0     /user3"             Set the home directories for three users (one of which doesn't exist).             ErrorPath                               ErrorPathDesc     ---------                               -------------     /vol/vol0/user3                         Homedir path doesn't exist, discardi     ...           ... View more

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The script in TR-3601 places the tables in read-only mode for the backup: #locking tables with read only mode my $query = "flush tables with read lock"; my $sth1234 = $dbh->prepare($query); $sth1234->execute() or die "Couldn't connect to database: $DBI::errstr\n"; $sth1234->finish(); Since the database buffers have been flushed and the database tables are in read-only mode during the backup, the script schould be compatible with a transactional database using the InnoDB engine. J ... View more

When I work with many controllers, I generally put the controller objects in an array, then work with the array.  You can find an example here: http://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-6293 J ... View more