api for creating cifs share

[uneven patio]

Hi Team,

I have activeiq with name active-iq I’m trying to create cifs share as command below

curl -k -v -X POST “ https://active-iq/api/datacenter/protocols/cifs/shares? cluster.uuid=”clusteruidnunber” -d @data.json -H “accept: application/json” -H “Authorization: Basic fshahshshsjshsh=“

My data json file is like this as attached

Can someone please help me what I’m doing wrong

Thank you

[warm jackal]

Without seeing the actual error it gives, it's hard to troubleshoot. Does it work if you send it directly to your cluster, i.e. https://<cluster-mgmt-ip-or-hostname>/protocols/cifs/shares ? If not then your json file is probably incorrect. Check that the names match, they are case-sensitive for example. If it works if you send it to your cluster it might be your AIQUM setup: do other API calls to AIQUM work? You might need to add the UUIDs to the svm and/or volume, so that AIQUM can uniquely identify those

[uneven patio]

Thank you I’m getting error code 500 Internal server error

[uneven patio]

Yes when I run GET for that cluster it gives me output

I have volume mounted on vserver as /test_share , svm- NetApp01-TEST and want to create share as test_share

[warm jackal]

hm. try adding the x-trace-threshold:0 header to your request and looking at the output headers (i.e. curl -i). I don't know if this works for AIQUM but it works for ONTAP and shows some debugging stuff that might be helpful

[weary smelt]

Your JSON file contents is bad. The first character of the JSON file should be { and the last }. cifs_share is a key and the {...} is the value.

It should be:

{
  "cifs_share": {
    "key you have": "values you have",
    "key2": "value2"
  }
}

[warm jackal]

ah! well spotted. I agree that this is most likely the issue

[uneven patio]

I did it as -attached and running command as curl -k -v -X POST “ https://active-iq/api/datacenter/protocols/cifs/shares?cluster.uuid=”clusteruidnunber” -d @data.json -H “accept: application/json” -H “Authorization: Basic fshahshshsjshsh=“

@weary smelt @warm jackal

I’m getting error 500: internal server error

Thank you for help but I’m still having issue

[weary smelt]

That 500 error may be because the JSON is not parsable. It's still invalid.
The trailing coma makes it invalid.

Since you're using photos to post info here, I'm guessing the system is 'isolated'. As you're on a linux system, jq may already be installed.

To lint (validate) JSON in Bash, you can use the jq command:
jq . <your_json_file.json
If the JSON is valid, jq will output the formatted JSON. If it's invalid, you'll get an error message.
Explanation:
jq . tells jq to parse the JSON and output it as-is (the . is the identity filter).
<your_json_file.json is the path to your JSON file.

[uneven patio]

Thank you I did check and found this json file is parsing and not giving me error but still I’m getting error 500 @weary smelt

[uneven patio]

Is there any log where I can check into activeiq server itself

[warm jackal]

did you try the API tracing I mentioned above?

also the UUID of the SVM looks strange, it should only be a hex number with dashes, and not contain that "SVM_uida" stuff before it

[uneven patio]

Yes as I can not disclose UID that’s why I have written such

[uneven patio]

Yes I did but it gives me error even on doing GET

With error can not resolve host

But my GET is working as I can fetch infos

[warm jackal]

cannot resolve host sounds like your command line is wrong. You have to add custom headers with the -H parameter to curl, did you do that correctly?

[uneven patio]

Yes I did mistake forgot to add “” for that parameter and now still I’m getting 500

It’s not showing too much info apart form error 500

Please let me know if I can see logs in activeIQ

For API calls

[warm jackal]

no idea, sorry

[warm jackal]

you did check the http reply headers, right? the -i part? because the trace logs show up there. But if they don't then I'm out of ideas, sorry

[uneven patio]

Yes I did that

[uneven patio]

My user that I created on activeIQ is having Applications Admin privilege

[uneven patio]

Any idea how to find performance service level keys for volume like Performance or custom ?

[uneven patio]

I have sorted out the issue and now it’s creating volume but not the share

@warm jackal and @weary smelt if you have any idea what it’s not creating CIFS share please help me

[uneven patio]

It’s creating volume and mounting it

[weary smelt]

I see on the second post you’ve figured it out. Please post your findings on this original thread so that others in the community, including those that offered assistance, can benefit.

Start a separate thread for the performance question. Threads here, like cases, should be focused on a single topic.

[uneven patio]

It was missing ACL even though in API documentation it does not say it’s required but when I did pass it it created