Hi there,   We are facing an issue with our auditing tool. We have an service which is listening has a connection to our NetApp for auditing purpose. As long as we have this service running and the connection is up we get all log messages from the NetApp. This is our connection string: vserver fpolicy engine-connect -vserver *** -policy-name *** -node *** -server ***   But sometimes this service or the server itself need an restart and we would like to buffer the logs. Is there a possibility to buffer the cifs logs on the NetApp or is there a recommended way to do it?   Thanks for the feedback and regards Pascal   ... View more

I am testing enabling CIFS auditing.    After the 'vserver audit create' command, I noticed the following event messages logged.    wafl.vol.create.clusterVolOnCFOaggr: Creating volume 'MDV_aud_b8bc6ea641ea5b21ac25bf731b9657d' on an aggregate with a CFO HA policy. File access delays will occur for a period following giveback.   Then noticed an MDV volume like the one referenced above was created on all aggrs including the root aggrs.  I am guessing this is the reason for the warning being on a CFO Aggr.    Am I missing a step?  Should I be concerned about this warning?  I want to enable auditing, but I don't really want the MDV volume on the root aggr, or to cause file access delays.  Should I be concerned by this configuration?   Thanks in advance! ... View more

How do you browse a CIFS Server using the local administrator account? We have a CIFS Server that's going to be disconnected from the domain, and our admins then need to access it afterwards to copy data off. I cannot figure out how to connect. I've tried:   net use <drive> /user:<cifs_server_name>\administrator \\<cifs_server_name>\c$   and I get "system error 67 the network name cannot be found".  I can browse the CIFS Server in Windows Explorer and open it in Computer Management with my domain creds. Any suggestions? ... View more

Have a problem where dedupe on a aggregate is running extremely slow.  Some operations have been running for 2 weeks or more on volumes it you take minutes to run.   We are running Ontap 9.7 P3.  The hardware is FAS2620, Shelf : DS212-12 with IOM12E modules with 7TB SATA disks.   There are no errors in the logs.  Everything shows normal.  File access is normal.  Netapp support so far has not been helpful.  They had me try stopping a starting  depdupe runs.   Most the the time the dedupe does not says it is stopping but never does.  Have be able to start and stop the process on some small volumes but dedupe still take extremely long  to complete or the process hangs up for long periods.  There in nothing running in the job that would affect it.     Any Ideas or experience with this problem Thanks ... View more