topic Re: Ontap 8 7-mode CIFS auditing. Possible to have the logs in XML format instead of EVT in ONTAP Discussions

Ontap 8 7-mode CIFS auditing. Possible to have the logs in XML format instead of EVT

NicoR — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:28:37 GMT

Is there a way to configure CIFS auditing in Ontap 8 (7-mode) to obtain the logs in XML format instead of the standard EVT format ?

Re: Ontap 8 7-mode CIFS auditing. Possible to have the logs in XML format instead of EVT

sgrant — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:46:50 GMT

Hello, I am not sure it's possible to create an XML file from the cifs audit file. There is an internal process that converts the cifsaudit.alf log file to .evt. Even the options cifs.audit.saveas command must use the .evt extension.

Thanks,
Grant.

Re: Ontap 8 7-mode CIFS auditing. Possible to have the logs in XML format instead of EVT

NicoR — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:00:49 GMT

Thanks for the quick responce. I don't seem to find anything configurable too, but was hoping others have some other idea that is usefull. Thank you anyway.