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I have an old Netapp filer that I'm migrating all of the NTFS files off of to a new NAS.

I'm going to be setting the new NAS up with the same IP and CIFS server name as the old netapp filer. This part I know how to do.

However, short of simply turning off the old netapp filer, is there a way I can change the IP and the name of the "CIFS server" on the old netapp filer so that I can leave it online for a few weeks if I have to grab files off of it or to do a final backup?

This is for data ontap 7.2

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  • It's data ontap 7.2 Commented Dec 16, 2010 at 19:45

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Here's a link to the ifconfig man page for ontap: http://ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca/netapp/man/man1/na_ifconfig.1.html

Here's one for the cifs commands: http://ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca/netapp/man/man1/na_cifs.1.html

changing your IP would be something like this (you would want to do this when logged in from the console in case it's not obvious):

# Get the name of the interface your current IP is assigned to, as well as # netmask, etc ifconfig -a # down the interface (i'm not actually sure if this is needed) ifconfig INTERFACE down # bring the interface back up with the new network info (substituting the # correct values for INTERFACE, NETMASK, and ADDRESS) ifconfig INTERFACE ADDRESS netmask NETMASK ip

You might also have to edit some files in the filer's etc/ dir to make the change persist across a reboot, as I said it's been a long time. cd to the filer's etc and grep for the current IP to get an idea.

as for renaming the share... Looks like you can't do a straight rename, you're in for deleting the old one and recreating it with the new name. How about something like this:

# show the info about the current shares: cifs shares # change the share name cifs shares -delete OLDSHARE # add the new name with the same settings as the old cifs shares -add NEWNAME [options]

See the na_cifs_shares man page for more infor on the options when you recreate the share (http://ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca/netapp/man/man1/na_cifs_shares.1.html)

Hope that helps somewhat...

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  • Thank you. Not wanting to rename the shares though...wanting to rename the actual "server" name. so \\filer\shareA becomes \\filertemp\shareA Commented Dec 16, 2010 at 21:24
  • What the host thinks its name is would be the hostname command, plus maybe editing the filer's etc/hosts file. Then an external DNS change as well. As for what you mount it as, I'm not sure what to say - if I were mounting via NFS the name of the local mount would be 100% controlled by the mount command I ran (or the contents of fstab). I think though that a DNS change and a hostname change on the filer would do what you want. Commented Dec 16, 2010 at 21:28
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To make the change persist across a reboot, first you have to read two files:

ontap1> rdfile /etc/rc #Auto-generated by setup Fri Jan 25 07:18:17 GMT 2013 hostname ontap1 ifconfig e0a `hostname`-e0a mediatype auto flowcontrol full netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 9000 ifconfig e0b `hostname`-e0b mediatype auto flowcontrol full netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 9000 ifconfig e0c `hostname`-e0c mediatype auto flowcontrol full netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 9000 ifconfig e0d `hostname`-e0d mediatype auto flowcontrol full netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 9000 route add default 10.19.11.1 1 routed on options dns.domainname fibra options dns.enable on options nis.enable off savecore ontap1> rdfile /etc/hosts #Auto-generated by setup Fri Jan 25 07:18:17 GMT 2013 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost-stack 127.0.10.1 localhost-10 localhost-bsd 127.0.20.1 localhost-20 localhost-sk 19.19.11.51 ontap1 ontap1-e0a 10.19.11.52 ontap1-e0b 10.19.11.53 ontap1-e0c 10.19.11.54 ontap1-e0d

Now you can see, that first file sets the ip address of all interfaces, but the ip address values are taken from second file (/etc/hosts), then you have to modify the second file:

wrfile /etc/hosts #Auto-generated by setup Fri Jan 25 07:18:17 GMT 2013 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost-stack 127.0.10.1 localhost-10 localhost-bsd 127.0.20.1 localhost-20 localhost-sk 10.19.11.51 ontap1 ontap1-e0a 10.19.11.52 ontap1-e0b 10.19.11.53 ontap1-e0c 10.19.11.54 ontap1-e0d (Ctrl-c)

Now, you can reboot.

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