On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:56:27PM -0400, tmac wrote:
Of course, f you know the right people...you can get the Ontap API software. I am able to query 8 different filers, collect info on about 200 volumes (volume info, aggr info, qtree info--> which there are 1000's of qtrees) in about 3-4 seconds and no SSH involved at all.
perl library, jar file, .NET, c++...lots of different ways to plug into ONTAP
No question. But I still have many items running that are hideously complex and more than 10 years old. I can't convert them in any reasonable time frame.
And all our "by hand" administration is still via SSH, which is where we first noticed this. I was just able to get confirmation from this script that is using SSH as well.
It's very possible that by going around the shell/interpreter, the API transport would not be subject to this problem. I'll have to see if I can get that tested. Even if it's fine, I really need the SSH stuff to work because of the legacy scripts I have.