Changes in /opt/harvest/conf/zapiperf/cdot/9.8.0/volume.yaml file was overwritten during harvest upgrade

[madhusudhanarya]

Describe the bug
We have made few custom changes to /opt/harvest/conf/zapiperf/cdot/9.8.0/volume.yaml file. During harvest upgrade, this changes have been overwriiten.

Harvest version: harvest version 21.05.3-2 (commit b482aff) (build date 2021-06-28T21:08:05+0530) linux/amd64
Command line arguments used: harvest start clus01
OS: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
Install method: YUM
ONTAP Version: 9.8P4

To Reproduce
Make some changes to volume.yaml file and run harvest update

Expected behavior
Config files should not be overwritten during the upgrade.

Actual behavior
Custom changes made to the volume.yaml file was overwritten

Possible solution, workaround, fix
Make a copy of the production file and diff it against the default one in the RPM. If there are any changes, copy the production file to another location and ask customer to check and copy back his file to required path

[cgrinds]

hi @madhusudhanarya we added sub-templates for customer edits. Does this line of documentation address your issue?

[madhusudhanarya]

Hi @cgrinds: we need to implement below feature.

#209

can you suggest how i can do this using sub-templates?

[cgrinds]

@madhusudhanarya - it's not completely possible until #124 is finished. You can get close with the following

cp conf/zapi/cdot/9.8.0/volume.yaml conf/zapi/cdot/9.8.0/tagvolume.yaml

• Create a conf/zapi/custom.yaml and copy/paste the following into it to use the new template

collector:          Zapi

# Order here matters!
schedule:
  - instance: 600s
  - data: 180s

objects:
  Volume:           tagvolume.yaml

• update conf/zapi/cdot/9.8.0/tagvolume.yaml with details in Tagging of Volume #209. This only needs to be done once
• edit conf/zapi/default.yaml and comment out #Volume: volume.yaml - this will be overwritten until Add option to use user-defined Collector template #124 is added

Bounce harvest and you will see the tagged volumes

[madhusudhanarya]

Thank you @cgrinds. Was able to get custom labels working after following above instructions. We can close this issue.

[cgrinds]

awesome - glad you got it working!