juanino at yahoo
Apr 25, 2008, 8:27 PM
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RE: Submitting Suggestions to Netapp/CLI command builder
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AIX "smit" used to (and probably still does) do this. For anything you did in the admin interface it gave you a shortcut to go right to that page in the admin interface with a command line option and when you executed a command you could hit an fkey to see the actual command it ran, no jumping out to log files.
--- On Fri, 4/25/08, Langdon, Laughlin T. (Lock) <Langdon.Lock[at]Mayo.EDU> wrote:
> From: Langdon, Laughlin T. (Lock) <Langdon.Lock[at]Mayo.EDU>
> Subject: RE: Submitting Suggestions to Netapp/CLI command builder
> To: "Klinkner, Steve" <Steve.Klinkner[at]netapp.com>, toasters[at]mathworks.com
> Date: Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:19 PM
> Agreed, but it would be nice to have it all formatted pretty
> like, and
> right in front of my face J
>
>
>
> *presses the easy button*
>
>
>
> From: Klinkner, Steve [mailto:Steve.Klinkner[at]netapp.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:18 PM
> To: Langdon, Laughlin T. (Lock); toasters[at]mathworks.com
> Subject: RE: Submitting Suggestions to Netapp/CLI command
> builder
>
>
>
> I realize this doesn't exactly match your request, but
> it turns out that
> virtually everything that FilerView does will end up in the
> auditlog
> (found in /etc/log/auditlog on the root volume).
>
>
>
> The entries will be a mix of API calls and command
> invocations (although
> the APIs have close CLI equivalents, many FilerView actions
> happen via
> ManageONTAP APIs rather than commands these days).
>
>
>
> So while this won't come out quite in the nice form
> you've illustrated,
> you might learn quite a bit by examining the auditlog to
> see what
> FilerView did to accomplish the tasks you've requested.
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Langdon, Laughlin T. (Lock)
> [mailto:Langdon.Lock[at]Mayo.EDU]
>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:42 PM
> To: toasters[at]mathworks.com
> Subject: Submitting Suggestions to Netapp/CLI command
> builder
>
> How would one go about submitting a suggestion to NetApp?
>
>
>
> I was thinking it would be nice, if while working in the
> Filer
> View GUI, your operations selected would build a command
> line "example"
>
>
>
> Say for instance you wanted to make a new volume from the
> GUI.
>
>
>
> You go to the volume section and you click Add.
>
> The wizard pops up.
>
> click next
>
> Select your volume type (flexible)
>
> click next
>
> Name the volume (vol1)
>
> Select language (en_US)
>
> Decide if you want to use UTF-8 or not (no)
>
> click next
>
> select the aggregate (aggr0)
>
> set your space guarantee (volume)
>
> click next
>
> choose volume size type (useable)
>
> choose volume size (100GB)
>
> set snapshot reserve (10%)
>
> click next
>
> now it shows all the options you picked in the text box.
>
> Create New Volume
>
>
>
> Volume Name: vol1
>
> Aggregate Container: aggr0 (14TB, raid_dp,mirrored)
>
> Volume Size: 100 GB
>
> Snapshot Reserve: 10%
>
> Language: English (US) (en_US)
>
> Space Guarantee: volume
>
>
>
> I want it to add the command line example of all the
> choices you
> picked. So it would look something like this
>
>
>
> Create New Volume
>
>
>
> Volume Name: vol1
>
> Aggregate Container: aggr0 (14TB, raid_dp,mirrored)
>
> Volume Size: 100 GB
>
> Snapshot Reserve: 10%
>
> Language: English (US) (en_US)
>
> Space Guarantee: volume
>
> CLI Commands used : vol create vol1 -l en_US aggr0 -s
> volume
> 100g
>
> snap
> reserve
> vol1 10
>
>
>
> I couldn't find a CLI command to specify if that
> 100GIG was
> useable or total space, but I hope you get what I'm
> going for.
>
> This might help people become more proficient in the CLI
> interface, and also help build commands for scripting.
>
>
>
> Thoughts, Ideas, comments?
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