Manage ONTAP SDK Overview

Manage ONTAP SDK provides resources to develop applications that monitor and manage NetApp® storage systems. The SDK makes it easy to utilize the capabilities of NetApp storage systems.

The Product offering includes:

• SDK Core API library bindings in C and C++, Java and Perl.

• SDK Core API and Data ONTAP API documentation, sample codes, developer tools, Design guides.

• Manage ONTAP SDK Help.

Key Features of the product:

• Provides access to Data ONTAP features through APIs

• Small set of immutable Core APIs

• Easy to learn SDK programming

• Supported on multiple platforms

• Windows, Linux (RHEL/SLES/OEL), Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, VMware ESX

• Supports multiple language interfaces

• C & C++, Java, and Perl

• Supports multiple transport protocols

• HTTP, HTTPS and Windows RPC

• Supports different authentication mechanisms

• login/password, host.equiv and Windows RPC authentication

• Supports multithreading

• SDK APIs are Thread-safe

Latest Version of Manage ONTAP SDK

Version: 3.0R1

What is new?

Removal of IDEA and RC5 algorithms from SSL libraries. The IDEA and RC5 algorithms are not supported by Data ONTAP for secure communication.

The following features are available in Manage ONTAP SDK 3.0R1:

1. Support for Data ONTAP 7.3 API set

2. New Platform Support

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (32 & 64 bit) Version: 5.0

• Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0

• VMware ESX 3.0 Onwards

3. Complete revamp of SDK documentation:

• Industry standard SDK help layout with Search, Indexing and TOC capabilities

• Better classification and documentation of SDK core APIs

• Detailed Troubleshooting section

• Updated FAQs

4. New Design Guides

• Block Access management

• Unified Storage Capacity management

5. Dynamic link libraries for C/C++

6. Sample codes

For more details about SDK 3.0R1, please refer the attached SDK 3.0R1 Release Notes.

Download SDK 3.0R1

Your feedback is very important to improve the product. Please provide your feedback about SDK 3.0R1 at this link: SDK 3.0R1 Feedback