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NetBackup IT Analytics Certified Configuration Guide

Last Published: 2024-02-22

Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.2)

Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges

Data collection of NetApp Cluster-Mode requires a specific read-only role and user in order to collect data for a cluster.

To create a new user account with the required privileges, use the following Command Line Interface (CLI) steps. This set of commands creates a role as apt_readonly and then a user named apt_user with read-only access.

Create a read-only role using the following two commands.

security login role create -role apt_readonly -cmddirname DEFAULT -access readonly
security login role create -role apt_readonly -cmddirname security -access readonly

Create the read-only user using the following command. Once you have executed the create command, you will be prompted to enter a password for this user.

security login create -username apt_user -application ontapi -authmethod password -role apt_readonly

The resulting role and user login will look something like this:

      Role            Command/                         Access
Vserver    Name          Directory                   Query Level
---------- ------------- --------- ------------------ --------
cluster1   apt_readonly  DEFAULT                      readonly
cluster1   apt_readonly  security                     readonly
cluster1::security login> show
Vserver: cluster1
                             Authentication                  Acct
UserName         Application Method         Role Name        Locked
---------------- ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------
apt_user         ontapi      password       apt_readonly     no