thats why we developed the http based software command.. and yes you can point it at your own local server after downloading the update once.
steve.
-----Original Message----- From: Blake Golliher [mailto:thelastman@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:40 PM To: Yee, Steven Cc: Fox, Adam; Stephen C. Losen; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: netapp admin with Unix without NFS
And that's just annoying. We are talking about long term administration, we can't be checking if we need to re apply a license, or bug my sales guy for a new temp license every so often. Very un appliance like.
-Blake
On 6/6/07, Yee, Steven Steven.Yee@netapp.com wrote:
there are time expiring demo licenses available .. contact your rep .. the only issue is that you can only use (install) them 3 times
steve.
-----Original Message----- From: Blake Golliher [mailto:thelastman@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:08 PM To: Fox, Adam Cc: Stephen C. Losen; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: netapp admin with Unix without NFS
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