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What is the impact of removing the "cluster agent connection" from ONTAP

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Applies to

 

  • Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.14+
  • Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) formerly Cloud Insights. -
    • NetApp ONTAP REST Data Management Software collector
    • Ontap REST Select collector
    • Cloud Volumes Ontap REST collector

Answer

  • The cluster agent connection is what  is used to monitor clusters via REST.
  • Cloud Agent is a new way of collecting data from ONTAP which uses REST API based calls to fetch monitoring data from Ontap instead of ZAPI.
  • Deleting the user "clus-agent-XXXX" will break the cluster agent connection between the application and ONTAP.
  • Deleting the cloud agent connection will break the cluster agent connection between the application and ONTAP.

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