Preparing the Lab on Demand to run the sample scripts

The NetApp Lab on Demand (LOD) provides a convenient and secure environment for testing your sample Python scripts. Before running the scripts, you'll need to prepare the LOD environment.

Before you begin

You need a NetApp support account to sign in to the Lab on Demand.

Steps

1. Using a browser, access the Lab on Demand web site and sign in using your NetApp account.

2. Click Full Library on the left and choose the Exploring the ONTAP REST API v1.2 Lab-On-Demand solution.

3. Sign in to the rhel1 machine in the provisioned lab.

4. Clone the ontap-rest-python repository using the following command at the CLI prompt:

   git clone https://github.com/NetApp/ontap-rest-python.git

5. Initialize the lab environment by running the lod_init.sh script provided in the lod folder of this repository. This script contains dependencies for REST APIs Python scripts to run.

   ./lod/lod_init.sh

6. If you encounter a permission denied error, modify the execute permission of the script using the following command and rerun the script.

   chmod 777 ./lod/lod_init.sh

After you finish

You can run the sample Python scripts contained in the repository subfolders examples/python_client_library and examples/rest-api.

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