topic What tool to monitor SMB/CIFS share activities (File deletion, etc) in General Discussion

What tool to monitor SMB/CIFS share activities (File deletion, etc)

Andy2022 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:45:32 GMT

Hi everyone,

Can you suggest a native or 3rd party tool to monitor SMB/CIFS share contain ?

We want to know who deleted, moved files/folders on the share. I search and read the knowledge base but cannot find any solution.

If you know Windows FSRM role. It's basically the same but for ONTAP.

Thanks in advance.

elementx — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 03:47:16 GMT

As explained here (https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/nas-audit/index.html) there's on-box auditing [1] and external auditing s/w that processes FPolicy events from ONTAP system [2].

The process of configuring [1] is described in [3].

[1]

[2]

[3]

Sanaman — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:52:02 GMT

Veritas DataInsight (external-engine) works well with OnTap FPolicy.