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ONTAP Automation

Script to retrieve the cluster configuration

Contributors dmp-netapp

The following script provides a simple example of how to use the Python client library. You can run the script using Python 3 at the CLI to retrieve the ONTAP cluster configuration.

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# Description: Python script to retrieve the cluster configuration.
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# Usage example:
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# python3 get_cluster.py
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# For reading the password from the commandline
from getpass import getpass
# Global configuration for the library
from netapp_ontap import config
# Support for the connection to ONTAP
from netapp_ontap import HostConnection
# Specific API needed for this script
from netapp_ontap.resources import Cluster
# Create connection to the ONTAP management LIF
# (add verify=False if the certificate your cluster is serving is not trusted)
conn = HostConnection(
    "<mgmt_ip>", username="admin", password=getpass("ONTAP admin password: "),
)
# Set connection as the default for all API calls
config.CONNECTION = conn
# Create new cluster object
clus = Cluster()
# Issue REST API call
clus.get()
# Display the cluster configuration
print(clus)