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Ways to configure NIS for host lookups

You can configure your storage system to use one or more NIS servers either during the setup procedure or later using the Data ONTAP command line or FilerView.

If you configure NIS later, you need to do all of the following:
  • Specify the NIS server to which your storage system should bind
  • Specify the NIS domain name of your storage system
  • Enable NIS on your storage system

You cannot configure the NIS slave during the setup procedure. To configure the NIS slave after the setup procedure is complete, you need to enable NIS slave by setting the option nis.slave.enable to on.