Data ONTAP APIs

Introduction

The Data ONTAP APIs are used to access and manage the NetApp storage system. These are proprietary set of APIs. This set includes APIs for security management, license management, backup and recovery, data replication, data archiving and so on.

Content of this section

This section provides API information for the Data ONTAP APIs. It includes the following API sets:

• aggr—provides aggregate information and management

• cf—provides the cluster-failover operations

• cifs—provides the CIFS setup, sessions and shares

• clock—provides system timezone and date management

• clone—manages file and sub-file cloning operation

• consistency—provides consistency group management

• dfm—dfm server-side settings

• disk—provides disk-related operations

• ems—provides APIs to perform Event Management System (EMS)

• fc—provides Fibre Channel adapter configuration

• fcp—provides Fibre Channel protocol management

• fcpport—provides APIs that manage the Fibre Channel protocol

• file—provides APIs that support file system operations

• fpolicy—provides file policy and configures files management

• ic—provides APIs that does Storage Failover Interconnect

• igroup—provides APIs that does initiator group operations

• ipspace—provides ipspace management APIs

• iscsi—provides iSCSI management and monitoring

• license—provides license code management

• lock—provides lock manager configuration and management

• lun—provides APIs that manage and monitor the LUNs

• nameservice—provides APIs that obtain nameservice information

• net—provides access to Data ONTAP network management

• nfs—NFS configuration and management

• options—provides option values management

• perf—provides counters of various system performance objects management

• portset—provides port set operations

• priority—provides APIs that manage priority scheduling operations

• qtree—provides qtree management

• quota—provides APIs for quota editing and management

• reallocate—provides LUN management and file optimization, and reallocation operations

• rsh—provides rsh information

• ses—provides SCSI enclosure services-related operations

• sis—provides advanced Single Instance Storage management

• snaplock—provides APIs SnapLock information and management

• snapmirror—provides SnapMirror management

• snapshot—manages Snapshot copies

• snapvault—provides SnapVault management

• snmp—provides SNMP management and retrieving the MIB values

• software—provides Software Package Information and Management

• storage-adapter—provides storage adapter operations

• system—provides APIs that retrieves system information

• useradmin—provides APIs that configures and manages user administrator

• vfiler—provides vFiler configuration and management

• volume—provides volume information and management

• wafl—provides APIs that does utility functions for agents