It is a common request from customer that wants to know who are the most active clients to a system. Though not hard to obtain, there is no obvious menu that lets you do that, so there it is :
First of all, you need to be in advanced mode and start statistics collection for the « client » object :
netapptest2::*> set advanced
Warning: These advanced commands are potentially dangerous; use them only when directed to do so by NetApp personnel.
Do you want to continue? {y|n}: y
netapptest2::*> statistics start -object client
Then you let it run for some time, and you can start looking at who the most active clients are : netapptest2::*> statistics show -object client -instance !Cluster* -sort-key nfs3_ops -counter nfs3_ops -tab ntap2_vs1: client: 5/31/2016 23:59:26 instance nfs3 name ops ---------------------- ---- ntap2_vs1:10.20.245.11 31 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.95 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.67 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.60 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.58 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.43 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.40 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.39 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.37 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.33 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.235 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.234 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.226 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.225 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.223 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.221 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.218 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.195 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.19 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.183 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.18 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.158 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.157 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.156 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.134 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.133 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.132 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.124 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.120 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.118 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.114 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.113 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.108 0 ntap2_vs1:10.20.45.100 0 34 entries were displayed.
You can use another field instead of nfs3_ops, just use « ? » character to get a list of available fields when you get to that part of the command line.
Here are the options available at this time, you can also use multiple fields by using a comma « , » separator.
cifs_ops cifs_read_ops cifs_read_size cifs_write_ops cifs_write_size instance_name instance_uuid local_ops mount_ops nfs2_ops nfs3_ops nfs4_ops node_name node_uuid process_name remote_ops rx_data rx_packets total_ops tx_data tx_packets vserver_id vserver_name
statistics start -object client run first time and I was able to get the statistics show.
next time onwards its giving below errors
statistics start -object client
Statistics collection is being started for sample-id: sample_282248
noiclapa01-cls-mgt::*> statistics samples show
Vserver Sample ID Start Time Stop Time Status
—————- ——————– ————– ————– ———-
noiclapa01-cls-mgt
sample_282248 06/01 21:04:22 – Error
It happens, but usually on the first collection from my experience.
Were you able to re run it?
Very useful!
How does that correspond with the « Top Clients » on the System Manager Dashboard?
It should give you similar results, but using System Manager is much easier today 🙂