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Unable to generate NDMP password on newly added nodes where old nodes are missing

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ONTAP 9

Issue

  • When attempting to generate a password hash for a NDMP user, running this command generates an error:

vserver services ndmp generate-password -vserver vserver_name -user [user name]

Error: show failed: Cannot get password for user [user name]

  • Failing with new user with correct privileges like Application (ONTAPI, SSH) , defined role with cmddirname "vserver services ndmp"
  • New nodes were added in the cluster and old nodes were decommissioned.
  • Cannot re-populate the vserver-config directories, since old nodes doesn't exist

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