#view snapshots

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gloomy ember
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HI
I manage 11 clusters , all at ontap 9.12, and we use ansible for some of our activities.
I am need of listing snapshots on our clusters, I have yaml scripts that create and delete snapshots for various activies including cloning, but I do not see an ansible command for listing (snapshot show). I would prefer not having to make a cli command through a separate script through ansible.builtin.shell.
also, I am looking for a way to make the output human readable since i will be getting our DBAs to read the results during their patching and they want to see the output properly displayed
thanks

rose latch
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Would the na_ontap_rest_info module with subset storage/volumes/snapshots get you what you need?

gloomy ember
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i have tried but i keep getting paramiter issues when i try to run a script.... I cannot find an example of how to set up the command... on the ansible website they only show a few examples of other gather_subset but not for snapshot... sorry, it takes a while to respond as iwe do not allow discord on our netwrok, so i need to go back and forth

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do you have an example of running the gather_subnet for show snapshot

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This is my script (it will be at the end of a larger script)

  • name: Script_EBS_snapshot_list

    vars:
    snapshot_name_prefix: "EBS_SNAP_"
    snapshot_name: "{{ snapshot_name_prefix }}{{ ansible_date_time.date }}_{{ ansible_date_time.time }}"

    hosts: "local"

    tasks:

    • name: Gather Volume move information for a specific volume
      netapp.ontap.na_ontap_info:
      hostname: "{{ item.cluster }}"
      username: "{{ admin_user }}"
      password: "{{ admin_password }}"
      gather_subset: snapshot_info
      snapshot_info:
      volume: ""
      vserver: "      "
      loop:
      • { cluster: 'MyCluster01' }
      • { cluster: 'MyCluster02' }
rose latch
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Try na_ontap_rest_info instead

gloomy ember
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thank you, i will give this a try

rose latch
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There's an example for snapshots - difference is it requires an owning resource

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  • name: Get Snapshot info (owning_resource example)
    netapp.ontap.na_ontap_rest_info:
    hostname: "1.2.3.4"
    username: "testuser"
    password: "test-password"
    https: true
    fields:
    - '*'
    validate_certs: false
    use_rest: Always
    gather_subset:
    - storage/volumes/snapshots
    owning_resource:
    volume_name: volume_name
    svm_name: svm_name
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Don't copy and paste this - formatting is off - but you can do 'ansible-doc netapp.ontap.na_ontap_rest_info'

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You could try saving the json and importing into Excel possibly.

gloomy ember
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I got it to run without error, though did not get any output... I guess that is the next step to figure out