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How to enable auditing of NFS events in ONTAP 9

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS

Description

  • This article describes the procedure that should be followed to enable file and folder auditing for files and folders accessed, modified, or deleted using NFS (NFSv3 or NFSv4)
  • In order for ONTAP to audit NFS events, NFSv4 has to be enabled to apply the ACL. 
    • Once the ACL's are applied to the files/directories, NFSv4 is no longer a requirement for the mount or SVM
  • Depending on the environment and which NFS versions are enabled, this KB will provide optional steps to disable v4 functionality. 
  • NFSv3 events will continue to be audited after v4 is disabled
  • This will create an XML files that will grow to no larger than 100M in size.  (NFS Best Practices TR-4067, page 69)

 

 

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