Is there a native way for ONTAP to list files/folders
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.8 +
- CIFS
- NFS
- File System Analytics (FSA)
- ONTAP System Manager (OSM)
Answer
- With File System Analytics on ONTAP 9.8+, monitoring files and folders is possible via ONTAP System Manager.
- See File System Analytics feature availability documentation to know which options are available from each version.
ONTAP 9.12.1 |
ONTAP 9.11.1 |
ONTAP 9.10.1 |
ONTAP 9.9.1 |
ONTAP 9.8 |
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Visualization in System Manager |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Capacity analytics |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Inactive data information |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Support for volumes transitioned from Data ONTAP 7-Mode |
X |
X |
X |
X |
|
Ability to customize inactive period in System Manager |
X |
X |
X |
X |
|
Volume-level Activity Tracking |
X |
X |
X |
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Download Activity Tracking data to CSV |
X |
X |
X |
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SVM-level Activity Tracking |
X |
X |
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Timeline |
X |
X |
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Usage Analytics |
X |
- For more information, see:
Additional Information
- This is also possible to achive via PowerShell \ Windows Explorer, though this can take a long time to enumerate large file structures
- Here are a list of links to work with:
- Additionally, FPolicy vendors may be able to produce something using filewalk options.