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Create an EBR policy

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POST /storage/snaplock/event-retention/operations

Introduced In: 9.7

Start an EBR operation. This operation applies an EBR policy to a specific volume or to a path within the volume.

Required properties

  • path - Path of the file.

  • policy.name - Name of the EBR policy. Either volume.name or volume.uuid must be specified when applying EBR policy to the volume or a path within the volume.

  • volume.name - Volume name.

  • volume.uuid - Volume uuid.

  • snaplock event-retention apply

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Parameters

Name Type In Required Description

return_records

boolean

query

False

The default is false. If set to true, the records are returned.

  • Default value:

Request Body

Name Type Description

id

integer

Operation ID

num_files_failed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy failed.

num_files_processed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which EBR policy was applied successfully.

num_files_skipped

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy was skipped.

num_inodes_ignored

integer

Specifies the number of inodes on which the application of EBR policy was not attempted because they were not regular files.

path

string

The path for the EBR operation. Specifies the path relative to the output volume root, of the form "/path". The path can be path to a file or a directory.

policy

policy

state

string

Specifies the operation status of an EBR operation.

svm

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

volume

volume
Example request 
{
  "id": 16842759,
  "num_files_failed": 0,
  "num_files_processed": 50,
  "num_files_skipped": 2,
  "num_inodes_ignored": 2,
  "path": "/dir1/file",
  "policy": {
    "name": "string",
    "retention_period": "P30M"
  },
  "state": "completed",
  "svm": {
    "name": "svm1",
    "uuid": "02c9e252-41be-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  },
  "volume": {
    "name": "volume1",
    "uuid": "028baa66-41bd-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  }
}

Response

Status: 201, Created
Name Type Description

id

integer

Operation ID

num_files_failed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy failed.

num_files_processed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which EBR policy was applied successfully.

num_files_skipped

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy was skipped.

num_inodes_ignored

integer

Specifies the number of inodes on which the application of EBR policy was not attempted because they were not regular files.

path

string

The path for the EBR operation. Specifies the path relative to the output volume root, of the form "/path". The path can be path to a file or a directory.

policy

policy

state

string

Specifies the operation status of an EBR operation.

svm

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

volume

volume
Example response 
{
  "id": 16842759,
  "num_files_failed": 0,
  "num_files_processed": 50,
  "num_files_skipped": 2,
  "num_inodes_ignored": 2,
  "path": "/dir1/file",
  "policy": {
    "name": "string",
    "retention_period": "P30M"
  },
  "state": "completed",
  "svm": {
    "name": "svm1",
    "uuid": "02c9e252-41be-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  },
  "volume": {
    "name": "volume1",
    "uuid": "028baa66-41bd-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  }
}

Headers

Name Description Type

Location

Useful for tracking the resource location

string

Error

Status: Default

ONTAP Error Response codes

Error code Description

918236

The specified volume uuid and volume name refer to different volumes.

13763372

Path should be given in the format "\/<dir path>".

14090242

Only a user with the security login role "vsadmin-snaplock" is allowed to perform this operation.

Definitions

See Definitions

href

Name Type Description

href

string

_links

policy

Name Type Description

name

string

Specifies the EBR policy name

retention_period

string

Specifies the retention period of an event based retention policy. The retention period value represents a duration and must be specified in the ISO-8601 duration format. The retention period can be in years, months, days, hours or minutes. A period specified for years, months and days is represented in the ISO-8601 format as "PY", "PM", "PD" respectively. For example "P10Y" represents a duration of 10 years. Similarly, a duration in hours, minutes is represented by "PTH", "PTM" respectively. The period string must contain only a single time element i.e. either years, months, days, hours or minutes. A duration which combines different periods is not supported, example "P1Y10M" is not supported. Apart from the duration specified in the ISO-8601 format, the retention period field also accepts the strings "infinite" and "unspecified".

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

Name Type Description

name

string

The name of the SVM. This field cannot be specified in a PATCH method.

uuid

string

The unique identifier of the SVM. This field cannot be specified in a PATCH method.

volume

Name Type Description

name

string

The name of the volume. This field cannot be specified in a PATCH method.

uuid

string

Unique identifier for the volume. This corresponds to the instance-uuid that is exposed in the CLI and ONTAPI. It does not change due to a volume move.

  • example: 028baa66-41bd-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7

  • Introduced in: 9.6

  • x-nullable: true

ebr_operation

Name Type Description

id

integer

Operation ID

num_files_failed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy failed.

num_files_processed

integer

Specifies the number of files on which EBR policy was applied successfully.

num_files_skipped

integer

Specifies the number of files on which the application of EBR policy was skipped.

num_inodes_ignored

integer

Specifies the number of inodes on which the application of EBR policy was not attempted because they were not regular files.

path

string

The path for the EBR operation. Specifies the path relative to the output volume root, of the form "/path". The path can be path to a file or a directory.

policy

policy

state

string

Specifies the operation status of an EBR operation.

svm

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

volume

volume

error_arguments

Name Type Description

code

string

Argument code

message

string

Message argument

returned_error

Name Type Description

arguments

array[error_arguments]

Message arguments

code

string

Error code

message

string

Error message

target

string

The target parameter that caused the error.