Enabling NetApp ONTAP API

Orchestrator uses the NetApp ONTAP API (ZAPI) to communicate with NetApp storage systems. When you add a NetApp storage system to Orchestrator, the ZAPI is not enabled automatically because Orchestrator does not have enough privileges to perform this operation. This means that you must enable the ZAPI manually before connecting the storage system to Orchestrator.

To enable the ZAPI, do either of the following:

  • Connect to the system through SSH and run the following command:

vserver services web modify -vserver <svm-name> -name ontapi -enabled true

  • Send the following ONTAP REST API request:

PATCH https://<cluster-ip>/api/private/cli/vserver/services/web?vserver=<svm-name>&name=ontapi

{ "enabled": true }

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