ONTAP 8.1.X VSES AntiVirus Scanning 7-MODE

Phil666 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:56:45 GMT

Hello,

I a very new to NetApp so i will do my best to explain our current setup.

Release Version - 8.1.4 7-Mode

Model - 3210 (x2 HA Pair)

VSES - 1.2.0.163 (Mcafee Enterprise Storage 2xScanning Servers)

We have created a private Interface group for the AV traffic - i add the private network IP's to the vFilers.

We have also set the following vscan variables on the filer (Do they need to be set on a vFILER level too?):

VSCAN OPTIONS
TIMEOUT = 10 SECONDS
ABORT_TIMEOUT = 50 SECONDS
MANDATORY_SCAN = OFF
VLIENT_MSGBOX = OFF

SCANNER Policy

TIMEOUT = 40
THREADS = 150

Nothing is enabled as of yet, we had issues previously where we had file locks and i believe this is down to the Mandatory_scan = On (Now off!)

Question is, how do i limit what is scanned? do i have to enable vscan on the filer and vfiler ? & Add the private network IP/s to the Mcafee EPO policy ?

Also if anyone could recomend any changes to our vscan details above it would be appreciated

Thank you,

Phil

Re: ONTAP 8.1.X VSES AntiVirus Scanning 7-MODE

hariprak — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:17:55 GMT

Hi,

You can refer Antivirus Scanning in Data ONTAP 7-Mode Best Practices Guide, http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-3107.pdf

Thanks

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