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Storage Discover

Discovers storage objects such as datasets and resource pools.

Component

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Type

Specifies the type of object to discover. The available values are:

0 – Dataset

1 – Resource Pool

2 – Provision Policy

3 – Storage Service

4 – vFiler

6 – Storage System

Default: “0”

Filter

Specifies the XPath type filter to specify the criteria for data returned where a subset of all data is desired. This filter is a key and value pairing that works with two possible keys (name or type). For instance, if you want a list of all datasets that start with "QAtest" enter name=QAtest*. If you want a list of SAN or NAS provisioning policies, enter type=san or type=nas.

Example: “name=test*”

Detail

Specifies the level of detail to return. The available values are:

0 – Basic

1 – Simple

2 – Complete

Storage Discover has several objects it can discover and the details of each object are different. Basic returns minimal information (such as name and description). Simple includes more information than Basic. Complete returns the most detailed information.

Default: “0”

NetApp Server Name

(Optional) Specifies the name of the NetApp DataFabric Manager.

Example: “host01.domain.com”

NetApp Server Username

(Optional) Specifies the name of the user authorized to connect to the NetApp DataFabric Manager.

Example: “user01”

NetApp Server User Password

(Optional) Specifies the password for the user authorized to connect to the NetApp DataFabric Manager.

Example: “password01”

NetApp Server Port

(Optional) Specifies the port number the NetApp DataFabric Manager uses.

Example: “8088”

NetApp Server Protocol

(Optional) Specifies the protocol used to access the NetApp DataFabric Manager. Available values are:

0 – HTTP

1 – HTTPS

Default: “0”

Storage Platform Type

Specifies the storage platform type. The only possible value is “1” (NetApp).

Default: “1”