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Failure to add Trident backend definition error 401: incorrect or missing credentials

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Applies to

  • Trident
  • ONTAP 9.x

Issue

Attempting to add or update a backend for Trident fails with:

Response body: {"backend":"<ONTAP-DRIVERNAME>","error":"problem initializing storage driver '<ONTAP-DRIVERNAME>':
error initializing <ONTAP-DRIVERNAME> driver: could not create Data ONTAP API client: error reading SVM details:
response code 401 (Unauthorized): incorrect or missing credentials"}

 

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