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na_ontap_cifs - Manage NetApp cifs-share

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • Create or destroy or modify(path) cifs-share on ONTAP

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • A physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system. The modules were developed with Clustered Data ONTAP 9.3
  • Ansible 2.6
  • netapp-lib (2017.10.30). Install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’
  • To enable http on the cluster you must run the following commands ‘set -privilege advanced;’ ‘system services web modify -http-enabled true;’

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
hostname
required
The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.
https
bool
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Enable and disabled https
password
required
Password for the specified user.

aliases: pass
path
The file system path that is shared through this CIFS share. The path is the full, user visible path relative to the vserver root, and it might be crossing junction mount points. The path is in UTF8 and uses forward slash as directory separator
share_name
required
The name of the CIFS share. The CIFS share name is a UTF-8 string with the following characters being illegal; control characters from 0x00 to 0x1F, both inclusive, 0x22 (double quotes)
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the specified CIFS share should exist or not.
username
required
This can be a Cluster-scoped or SVM-scoped account, depending on whether a Cluster-level or SVM-level API is required. For more information, please read the documentation https://goo.gl/BRu78Z.

aliases: user
vserver
required
Vserver containing the CIFS share.

Notes

Note

  • The modules prefixed with na_ontap are built to support the ONTAP storage platform.

Examples

- name: Create CIFS share
  na_ontap_cifs:
    state: present
    share_name: cifsShareName
    path: /
    vserver: vserverName
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"
- name: Delete CIFS share
  na_ontap_cifs:
    state: absent
    share_name: cifsShareName
    vserver: vserverName
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"
- name: Modify path CIFS share
  na_ontap_cifs:
    state: present
    share_name: pb_test
    vserver: vserverName
    path: /
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

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