#Powershell and 9.15.1RC1

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worthy belfry
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Morning all,

I am planning to upgrade to 9.15.1RC1 and noticed that ONTAPI is no longer developed or updated. We have a custom built in house "toolbox" that we use for quick access to inforamtion and some automation on the Netapp such as increasing quotas on peoples home drives and creating new Qtrees etc.

All of these integrations are using powershell in the background, would upgrading to 9.15.1RC1 affect any of these integrations? We are not in a position due to work load and staffing limitations to move over to the new API currently so this would have to be picked up later in the year.

Cheers

boreal wigeon
tawny scroll
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It will be removed in 9.18
...unless there is enough pressure from customers/users to extend it even further 😉

undone belfry
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@boreal wigeon , that link didn't work for me.
This is the official Product Communique:
https://mysupport.netapp.com/info/communications/ECMLP2880232.html

Looks like ZAPI will be disabled after 9.13.1 unless OnTap detects that you are still using ZAPI during an upgrade to 9.14.1+, or if you manually enable it via CLI. Regardless, ZAPI will not be supported on 9.18.1 or beyond (barring pressure from customers to change that).

But, to address @worthy belfry's question, if you update your NetApp PowerShell toolkit, it will automatically update the commands you used previously so that they will now use REST API to connect to the clusters rather than ZAPI.

Of course, that being said, you really need to test all your scripts after updating the PSTK to make sure other things don't break.

tawny scroll
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yeah, the good thing about PSTK is that it abstracts away the API used and you don't have to worry about that. The bad thing is that upgrading PSTK is sometimes not a drop-in replacement and you have to re-validate your scripts and probably rewrite parts of them

worthy belfry
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We’re slowly moving away from NetApp so not in a rush to migrate to the API. We’re still using 9.9.1 of PTSK as that seems to be bug free with the cmdlets we need. We tried a newer version and found too many bugs. Upgrade day tomorrow! Wish me luck

boreal wigeon
worthy belfry
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Yeah I saw the article. Tbh I wasn’t 100% ontapi is the powershell features.