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Storage Workload Security collector stops collecting CIFS user activity after brief FPolicy disconnection event

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Storage Workload Security (SWS)

Issue

 The SWS data collector stops collecting CIFS/SMB user activity for a specific SVM after a brief network disruption between the SWS agent
  and the SVM. The collector does not automatically recover and resume collecting audit events.
 
Symptoms:
  •  Gap in CIFS user activity on the SWS Forensics Activity page
  •  Data Collector may show "Error" with message: Connector is in error state. Service name: audit. Reason for failure: External fpolicy server terminated.
  •  Collector may appear "Running" despite not collecting events
  •  ONTAP EMS: fpolicy.srv.disconnect for the affected SVM
  •  Agent dsc.log: [ERROR] - Service audit failed with reason: External fpolicy server terminated.
Activity that occurs during the outage window is permanently lost from the SWS forensic record.

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