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Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7
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Managing file shares

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You can use the APIs listed here to view, add, and delete CIFS shares and NFS file shares. Using these APIs, you can also assign and modify the Performance Service Level and Storage Efficiency Policies for the file shares.

Before assigning storage, the virtual machine must have been created and provisioned with the supported protocols. Similarly, for assigning Storage Efficiency Policies to the file shares, the Storage Efficiency Policies must be created before creating the file shares.

View file shares

You can use the following method to view all of the storage workloads available in your Unified Manager environment. When you have added an ONTAP cluster as a datasource on Active IQ Unified Manager, the storage workloads for those clusters are automatically added to your Unified Manager instance. This API retrieves the all file shares automatically and manually added to your Unified Manager instance. You can view the details of a specific file share by running this API with the file share key.

Category HTTP verb Path

storage-provider

GET

/storage-provider/file-shares

/storage-provider/file-shares/{key}

Add file shares

You can use the following method to add CIFS and NFS file shares in your SVM. You must enter the details of the file share that you want to create, as the input parameters. You cannot use this API for creating FlexGroups.

Category HTTP verb Path

storage-provider

POST

/storage-provider/file-shares
Note

Depending on whether the access control list (ACL) parameters or the export policy parameters are provided, CIFS shares or NFS file shares are created. If you do not provide the values for the ACL parameters, CIFS shares are not created, and NFS shares are created by default, providing access to all.

Delete file shares

You can use the following method to delete a specific file share. You need to enter the file share key as an input parameter to delete a particular file share.

Category HTTP verb Path

storage-provider

DELETE

/storage-provider/file-shares/{key}

Modify file shares

You can use the following method to modify a file share and update its properties.

You need to provide the file share key to modify a particular file share. Additionally, you need to enter the property that you want to update, along with its value.

Note

Note that you can update only one property at a single invocation of this API. For multiple updates, you need to run this API as many times.
Category HTTP verb Path

storage-provider

PATCH

/storage-provider/file-shares/{key}