Jul 10, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Isilon Share Information with RESTful API and PowerShell

Introduction In an earlier post we covered using RESTful API calls to EMC Isilon to retrieve quota data. In this post we will make the same calls but gather data on SMB / CIFS Shares for screen output as well and optional CSV output. We will also look at the options to gather for different zones as well. Prerequisites To be able to execute RESTful API calls to Isilon you will need to create an account and... read more

Jun 17, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving NFS Export Data on Isilon with RESTful API and PowerShell

Introduction In an earlier post we covered using RESTful API calls to EMC Isilon to retrieve quota data. In this post we will make the same calls but gather data on NFS exports for screen output as well and optional CSV output. Prerequisites To be able to execute RESTful API calls to Isilon you will need to create an account and add the appropriate roles. For GET operations a read-only account is all that... read more

Jun 14, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving SmartQuota Data on Isilon with RestAPI and PowerShell

Introduction Many different tools available for administrators to manage storage devices and create reports and or monitors. With EMC Isilon we have RestAPI available to make calls for information. In this post we will cover how to use PowerShell to make calls to Isilon and get Smartquota data (path, thresholds for advisory & hard) and usage data and convert it from bytes to GB. The basis of the... read more

May 10, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Read Audit logs on Isilon

Introduction One of the many painful things we get to do as Storage Administrators is to read logs on the Arrays. Some use GUI’s and some require command line. In this post we will look at how to read audit logs on Isilon from the command line. Process First step is to start an SSH session with Isilon. navigate to /ifs/.ifsvar/audit/logs. Here we see our individual nodes. # ls -al total 120... read more