ONTAP 8.3.2 Defaults - Storage Failover

Sometimes it’s quite useful to know what the default settings are, and so - in what might be the start of a new series of posts - I thought I’d expose in a table form what the defaults are, starting with Storage Failover defaults.

All the information presented in the table below can be got from::>


set diag
man storage failover modify


Image: Table of Storage Failover Defaults

Since the image isn’t very useful for documenters out there, the data is also presented below in CSV format, which you can copy and paste into Excel.


Switch,Priv.,Values,Default,Note
 -node,,|local,,
 -enabled,,true|false,true,
 -mode,,ha|non_ha,,
 -auto-giveback,,true|false,false,true for two-node clusters
 -check-partner,,true|false,true,
 -detection-time,,,15,(seconds)
 -onfailure,Adv.,true|false,true,
 -onpanic,,true|false,true,
 -onshort-uptime,Adv.,true|false,true,
 -short-uptime,Adv.,,60,(seconds)
 -attempts,Adv.,,2,
 -attempts-time,Adv.,,60,(minutes)
 -propagate,Adv.,true|false,true,
 -read-interval,Adv.,,5,(seconds)
 -write-interval,Adv.,,5,(seconds)
 -onreboot,,true|false,true,
 -delay-seconds,,,600,(seconds)
 -hwassist,,true|false,false,Recommend to configure and enable
 -hwassist-partner-ip,,,,Set to partner node's mgmt IP
 -hwassist-partner-port,,,4444,
 -hwassist-health-check-interval,,,180,(seconds)
 -hwassist-retry-count,,,2,
 -auto-giveback-after-panic,,true|false,true,
 -bypass-takeover-optimization,,true|false,false,
 -aggregate-migration-timeout,Adv.,,120,(seconds)
 -auto-giveback-override-vetoes,,true|false,false,
 -auto-giveback-cifs-terminate-minutes,,,5,


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