Friday, June 21, 2013

Enabling Auditing on NetApp CIFS shares/Volumes

Enabling Auditing in NetApp Cifs volume



Enable Auditing
Telnet to filer

NetApp Filer > options cifs.audit.enable on
This will enable auditing on cifs volume. The disadvantage of this we need to save manually to stop the auditing ( i will tell you how we can do it automatically)

Save Cifs auditing
NetApp Filer>cifs audit save -f

Automatically save auditing
NetApp Filer > options cifs.audit.autosave.ontime.enable on
NetApp Filer >cifs.audit.autosave.onsize.enable on

Where we can see the audited logs ?
/etc/log/adtlog.evt

Run –> //filername/etc$
Go to etc folder then log folder. There you can see adtlog.evt

To view in Windows OS:
It’s a event viewer file. Go to Event Viewer –> Right click –> open log file–> show this path
( try to mount this CIFS volume before it shows the path in event viewer). Select security log while selecting open.
You should be able to see similar Windows like Auditing. Object Access, log on/ log off category,...etc

CIFS auditing options on NetApp filer

options cifs.audit
cifs.audit.account_mgmt_events.enable off
cifs.audit.autosave.file.extension timestamp
cifs.audit.autosave.file.limit 0
cifs.audit.autosave.onsize.enable on
cifs.audit.autosave.onsize.threshold 75%
cifs.audit.autosave.ontime.enable on
cifs.audit.autosave.ontime.interval 1d
cifs.audit.enable            on
cifs.audit.file_access_events.enable on
cifs.audit.liveview.enable   off
cifs.audit.logon_events.enable on
cifs.audit.logsize           524288
cifs.audit.nfs.enable        off
cifs.audit.nfs.filter.filename
cifs.audit.saveas            /etc/log/adtlog.evt

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  2. Really very good information, thanks for sharing these steps to enable auditing on NetApp Cifs volume but I also check the information from https://www.netwrix.com/file_server_auditing.html . This tool provides the comprehensible solution for multi-platform auditing and view reports as per the audit rules and policies to show all changes within the File Servers.

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