Netapp Most Commonly Used Commands

sysconfig (-a, -r, -c, -t, -m)‏

Shows information about filer (hardware, disks, aggregates & RAID groups, ...)‏

options

Queries or changes values for various “registry” options

setup

Walks through initial setup questions: filer name, IP addresses, etc., but does not erase any data

cifs setup

Walks through CIFS setup questions: domain/workgroup membership etc.

sysstat -x -s 1

Prints out all-round performance statistics

license

Adds/removes/prints licenses on filer

version (-b)‏

Prints out Data ONTAP & Diagnostics/Firmware version numbers

rdfile

Reads a text file and prints contents to console (Unix “cat”)‏

wrfile

Reads from console and sends output to text file (Unix “Cat >”)‏

snap (restore)‏

Performs snapshot operations, eg. restore from snapshot

snapvault

snapmirror

Manipulates/controls SnapMirror/SnapVault/OSSV operations from the command-line

cf

Controls clustering, eg. enabling/disabling, forcing takeover & giveback

aggr

Creates/expands/destroys/manipulates aggregates, eg. change options

vol

Create/resizes/destroys/manipulates volumes, eg. change options

df

Shows free disk space (volumes, aggregates, also inodes)‏

qtree

Creates/manipulates qtrees (=special directories)‏

vif

Creates/destroys/manipulates virtual network interfaces (eg. team interfaces for failover or load-balancing)‏

ifconfig

Sets network IP configuration (put in /etc/rc to survive reboots)‏

ifstat

Shows network interface statistics

netdiag

Performs basic network diagnostic testing

ndmpd

ndmpcopy

Manipulates NDMP settings, or use ndmpcopy to copy files via NDMP

priv set/priv set advanced/priv set diag

Goes into advanced/diagnostics mode