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Configure a LIF

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You must identify a LIF that will be used for establishing a data connection and control connection between the node and the backup application. After identifying the LIF, you must verify that firewall and failover policies are set for the LIF.

Note Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, firewall policies are deprecated and wholly replaced with LIF service policies. For more information, see Manage supported traffic.
ONTAP 9.10.1 or later
Steps

  1. Identify the intercluster LIF hosted on the nodes by using the network interface show command with the -service-policy parameter.

    network interface show -service-policy default-intercluster

  2. Ensure that the intercluster LIF includes the backup-ndmp-control service:

    network interface service-policy show

  3. Ensure that the failover policy is set appropriately for the intercluster LIFs:

    1. Verify that the failover policy for the intercluster LIFs is set to local-only by using the network interface show -failover command.

      cluster1::> network interface show -failover
            Logical          Home              Failover     Failover
Vserver     Interface        Node:Port         Policy       Group
--------    ---------------  ----------------- ------------ --------
cluster1    IC1               cluster1-1:e0a    local-only   Default
                                                    Failover Targets:
                                                    .......
            IC2               cluster1-2:e0b    local-only   Default
                                                    Failover Targets:
                                                    .......
cluster1-1  cluster1-1_mgmt1 cluster1-1:e0m    local-only    Default
                                                    Failover Targets:
                                                    .......

    2. If the failover policy is not set appropriately, modify the failover policy by using the network interface modify command with the -failover-policy parameter.

      cluster1::> network interface modify -vserver cluster1 -lif IC1 -failover-policy local-only