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Unable to access cifs share due to audit destination is full or unavailable

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9 and later
  • CIFS
  • CIFS auditing enabled

Issue

  • Users unable to access CIFS share and getting as "(Audit failed) An attempt to generate a security audit failed":
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  • CIFS auditing is enabled on the vserver:
::> vserver audit show -vserver svm1
Vserver     State  Event Types        Log Format Target Directory
----------- ------ ------------------ ---------- ----------------------------
svm1        true   file-ops,          evtx       /vol1
                   cifs-logon-logoff,
                   file-share
 
  • CIFS audit destination volume is full:
::> df -h vol1
Filesystem               total       used      avail   capacity  Mounted on      Vserver
/vol/vol1/               1GB         1GB        0MB      100%     /vol1           svm1
 
  • CIFS audit destination directory has been deleted

 

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