“I explored WFA a while back but was told NetApp is moving away from that product in favor of Ansible and open automation via the ONTAP REST API.”
Wut? This would be ... bad.
On September 23, 2020, Philbert Rupkins philbertrupkins@gmail.com wrote:
Hi André,
Thanks for the note. I explored WFA a while back but was told NetApp is moving away from that product in favor of Ansible and open automation via the ONTAP REST API. As such, I chose to spend my time looking into the available Ansible modules and REST API functionality in 9.7.
Do you know if NetApp plans to continue to develop/support WFA long-term? Perhaps my source was mistaken.
Cheers, Phil
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:40 AM André M. Clark andre.m.clark@gmail.com wrote:
Phil,
So that level of control/access is at the Cluster level and not at
the SVM level. If you want to do something like this with delegated access, WFA is definitely one way. Other alternatives is to use automation via Ansible in conjunction with Ansible Tower. There you can use predefined playbooks to perform the operations that you want, using naming standard that you want. And, use Ansible Tower to control who has the rights to execute the playbooks at certain levels.
Regards, André M. Clark
On September 23, 2020 at 09:51:14, Rupkins Philbert
(philbertrupkins@gmail.com) wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for the responses. I should have included more details,
apologies.
Environment:
- ONTAP 9.3 P19 (9.7 by EoY)
- Windows Server 2008/2012/2016
- vSphere 6.0 (6.7 by EoY)
- RHEL7/8 based Linux hosts
The following summarizes the SVM scoped privs we'd like them to have via System Manager:
- Provision RW Flexvols
- Create Junction Paths
- Provision DR Flexvols
- Provision CIFS Shares
- Configure CIFS share permissions
- Provision NFS exports
- Configure export policies
- Manage local SVM user accounts (multiprotocol access / user
mappings)
- Create and manage Snapmirror relationships
- Create and manage snapshot policies
We'd like to stay away from delegating cluster level privs so no
need
for them to create SVM's , LIF's, etc - the platform team will continue to do that.
We do use VSC today. But that doesnt address general use CIFS shares and NFS exports.
My understanding is WFA is being retired. Is this not true?
Cheers, Phil
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 8:23 AM tmac tmacmd@gmail.com wrote:
Might want to take a look at installing OnCommand Worfklow
Automation.
I suspect this may allow you to do what you need. Some YouTube
videos:
Technical Introduction OnCommand Workflow Automation Introduction
Product page:
https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/products/all/details/ocwfa/downloads- tab
--tmac
Tim McCarthy, Principal Consultant
Proud Member of the #NetAppATeam
I Blog at TMACsRack
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:04 AM Alexander Griesser
AGriesser@anexia-it.com wrote:
Hey,
what exactly are the requirements? What do you need them to do,
when you say "provision storage"?
Should they just be able to create new shares on already existing
volumes or do they need to create new volumes, new LIFs, local user accounts, etc.?
Best,
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net Im Auftrag von
Philbert Rupkins
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. September 2020 00:25 An: Toasters toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: SVM Admin Access
Toasters,
I work with a team of Windows Server admins who are open to provisioning their own storage but strongly prefer a GUI. I'd
like
to provide this ability by granting System Manager access to the
specific SVM's that host their resources.
Much to my chagrin, it doesn't appear RBAC allows for System
Manager
access to particular SVMs. Instead, privileges must be granted at the cluster level which of course means those privs are effective
for all data SVMs (this is a non-starter).
Per NetApp docs, my only option appears to be SVM level RBAC
privs via SSH. Not quite the GUI option they are looking for but, organizationally, we're making a push for more automation and use of Ansible so it's not completely out of the question.
Is there an angle Im not considering that would allow for SVM
level
access via System Manager? Has anybody else come up with creative ways to address this problem?
I'd love to hear from you.
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