I honestly do most of my work from the console of the filer. It's sick but it's what I'm used to. I've talked to netapp before about some limited use nfs license for these cases, but no luck so far. It'd be really nice though.
-Blake
On 6/6/07, Fox, Adam Adam.Fox@netapp.com wrote:
As far as the installation of ONTAP via HTTP, yes, that's possible via the software command. As far as editing files, I've been playing with some code to download and upload text files via the SDK so folks who didn't have NFS or CIFS could still effectively edit files. I don't remember how far I got on it and what platforms I had it working on. I may have to dig around. The good news is there is little file editing (or at least not frequent file editing) that tends to be done on a FCP-only filer.
-- Adam Fox NGS Tools Developer adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:48 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: netapp admin with Unix without NFS
I'm accustomed to administering netapps on a Unix box that NFS mounts the root volume and has rsh and/or ssh access to root. I've always used the command line since we got our first filer in 1997 before the GUI came out.
We are buying two FAS270s to be placed in two separate locations for disaster recovery. Each filer will store FC LUNs that will be used by a Windows server in each location. One location is primary and the other is standby in case we lose the primary.
We will replicate data from the primary filer to the secondary with snapmirror (and also snapdrive I suppose).
I am in neither of these locations and each location will be behind its own firewall (oh joy). Obviously the filers will need to talk to each other for snapmirror.
Since these filers are FC SAN only, we would prefer to not spring for NFS licenses just for my convenience.
I would be interested to know if there are any other Unix folks out there who admin filers without NFS access. I think that all filers come with a mini CIFS license (only one CIFS session?) and I guess I could use smbmount on my Linux box to access the root volume. I wish filers also had a mini NFS license for admin.
As for installing DOT, isn't there a way to put the software distribution file on a httpd server and point the filer at it? I have always used the install_netapp script and the compressed tar file.
I don't know what sort of holes I can get punched in the firewall. I may need to use a VPN client (yuck).
Is anyone else out there in a similar situation?
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support