Is it possible after connecting to cluster via pea file to retrieve the home pool name?

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There is no call to directly get the virual pool name but if you create a clip then the SDK will populate two sysem attributes which you can read to find the virtual pool ID

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you could then use the center viewer to display the pool id of a virtual pool and compare

Config# show pool detail armtesting
Centera Pool Detail Report
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Generated on Monday, 22 July 2013 18:43:23 BST

Pool Name:                          armtesting
Pool ID:                            861673fa-1dd2-11b2-b535-b66ede9133c1-7
Pool Mask:                          rdqeDcwh
Cluster Mask:                       rdqeDcw--h

Pool Quota Alert:                   10,240 GB
Pool Quota Hard S              --
Used Pool Capacity:                 146 GB
Free Pool Capacity (Alert):         10,094 GB
Free Pool Capacity (Hard Stop):     --
Number of C-Clips:                  673744
Number of Files:                    705605
Number of scheduled tasks:          0

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Thanks for this.

I did now use following pseudo code to retrieve the pool id:

FPClip_Create(...)

FPClip_GetDescriptionAttribute (..., "creation.poolid",...)

FPClip_Close(...)

The questions are now:

a) does this code sequence increase the "Used Objects Count"

b) Is there an API call that retrieves the pool list from the cluster like "show pools"  in centera viewer admin  ?