create a text file that contains a list of departments and save is as "departments.txt" , for example:

hr

marketing

management

then from command line run:

DEP=`cat departments.txt`

for i in $DEP

do

echo "Creating directory for $i"

nas_quotas -on -tree -fs Data1 -path "$i"  -comment 'this is a test'

done

i don't think there is another way to reference quota id's but output from nas_quotas -list -tree -fs and nas_quotas -report -tree -fs will help you script your nas_quotas -report -tree -fs command.

you need to copy this file to Celerra control station. You can use open source tools like FileZilla and connect control station using SFTP protocol.

This is very helpful, but I am stuck on where to put the departments.txt file

I tried putting the file in the folder where I am running putty.exe from on my windows PC:

c:\putty\departments.txt

When I type:

DEP=`cat departments.txt`

I get:
cat: departments.txt: No such file or directory

I also tried it by typing:
DEP=`cat "c:\putty\departments.txt"`

I get:
cat: c:\putty\departments.txt: No such file or directory

Thanks, now we are getting somewhere. I did use filezilla logged in with the same username and password and i was able to copy files to:

home/username Which is where my command prompt defaults to using putty.

It looks like it is reading the file now, but I got another error:

Error 13431603213: Control char: Invalid Tree Quota path character. A tree quota path on a Data Mover that does not have Unicode enabled must use ASCII characters only.

I tried twice with the following in my text file and got the same results:

/treetesta
/treetestb
/treetestc

and

/treetest1
/treetest2
/treetest3

The commands i am running are:

[admin@NAS1 ~]$ DEP=`cat departments.txt`

[admin@NAS1 ~]$ for i in $DEP; do nas_quotas -on -tree -fs Data1 -path "$i"; done

I searched for unicode, ascii in the documentation and havent found really anything not even how to enable it or what that will affect. Can't find anything on that error code. I am currently searching info on invalid ascii characters.I created the txt file in windows notepad and it is saved as ANSI which seems to be ascii from what I read so far...

That was it !!!!!!!

I created a file on the control station using vi and it worked and running the command dos2unix worked as well. This is great thanks for the help.

When viewing the txt file on my PC It used to look like

/treetesta
/treetestb
/treetestc

now it looks like

/treetesta/treetestb/treetestc

however if I cut and paste it somewhere, the carriage returns re-appear and it looks like:

/treetesta
/treetestb
/treetestc

So I guess I either need to find a text editor that will save in unix format or run that dos2unix command.

It looks like it is reading the file now, but I got another error: Error 13431603213: Control char: Invalid Tree Quota path character. A tree quota path on a Data Mover that does not have Unicode enabled must use ASCII characters only.

I would also suggest to check if your CIFS servers are configured with Unicode support - just do a server_cifs server_2 and see what I18N mode says

server_checkup server_2 -test CIFS will also look for it

without it you cant use non-ASCII characters for Objects like shares and so on

Rainer

you would need that if you are trying to use multi-byte characters, like share names using german umlauts.

Ärger

ral67 wrote: I would also suggest to check if your CIFS servers are configured with Unicode support - just do a server_cifs server_2 and see what I18N mode says

Here's what i got:

I18N mode = UNICODE

server_checkup server_2 -test CIFS will also look for it

Here's what I got:

I18N      : Checking the I18N mode and the Unicode/UTF8 translation tables. Pass

So I guess I either need to find a text editor that will save in unix format or run that dos2unix command.

you will love Notepad ++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm