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Retrieve a Vscan On-Access policy

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GET /protocols/vscan/{svm.uuid}/on-access-policies

Introduced In: 9.6

Retrieves the Vscan On-Access policy.

  • vserver vscan on-access-policy show

  • vserver vscan on-access-policy file-ext-to-include show

  • vserver vscan on-access-policy file-ext-to-exclude show

  • vserver vscan on-access-policy paths-to-exclude show

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Parameters

Name Type In Required Description

enabled

boolean

query

False

Filter by enabled

scope.exclude_paths

string

query

False

Filter by scope.exclude_paths

scope.max_file_size

integer

query

False

Filter by scope.max_file_size

scope.only_execute_access

boolean

query

False

Filter by scope.only_execute_access

scope.include_extensions

string

query

False

Filter by scope.include_extensions

scope.scan_readonly_volumes

boolean

query

False

Filter by scope.scan_readonly_volumes

scope.exclude_extensions

string

query

False

Filter by scope.exclude_extensions

scope.scan_without_extension

boolean

query

False

Filter by scope.scan_without_extension

mandatory

boolean

query

False

Filter by mandatory

name

string

query

False

Filter by name

svm.uuid

string

path

True

UUID of the SVM to which this object belongs.

fields

array[string]

query

False

Specify the fields to return.

max_records

integer

query

False

Limit the number of records returned.

return_records

boolean

query

False

The default is true for GET calls. When set to false, only the number of records is returned.

  • Default value: 1

return_timeout

integer

query

False

The number of seconds to allow the call to execute before returning. When iterating over a collection, the default is 15 seconds. ONTAP returns earlier if either max records or the end of the collection is reached.

  • Default value: 1

  • Max value: 120

  • Min value: 0

order_by

array[string]

query

False

Order results by specified fields and optional [asc

Response

Status: 200, Ok
Name Type Description

_links

_links

num_records

integer

Number of records

records

array[vscan_on_access]
Example response 
{
  "_links": {
    "next": {
      "href": "/api/resourcelink"
    },
    "self": {
      "href": "/api/resourcelink"
    }
  },
  "records": {
    "name": "on-access-test",
    "scope": {
      "exclude_extensions": [
        "mp*",
        "txt"
      ],
      "exclude_paths": [
        "\\dir1\\dir2\\name",
        "\\vol\\a b",
        "\\vol\\a,b\\"
      ],
      "include_extensions": [
        "mp*",
        "txt"
      ],
      "max_file_size": "2147483648"
    }
  }
}

Error

Status: Default, Error
Name Type Description

error

error
Example error 
{
  "error": {
    "arguments": {
      "code": "string",
      "message": "string"
    },
    "code": "4",
    "message": "entry doesn't exist",
    "target": "uuid"
  }
}

Definitions

See Definitions

href

Name Type Description

href

string

_links

Name Type Description

next

href

self

href

scope

Name Type Description

exclude_extensions

array[string]

List of file extensions for which scanning is not performed.

exclude_paths

array[string]

List of file paths for which scanning must not be performed.

include_extensions

array[string]

List of file extensions to be scanned.

max_file_size

integer

Maximum file size, in bytes, allowed for scanning.

only_execute_access

boolean

Scan only files opened with execute-access.

scan_readonly_volumes

boolean

Specifies whether or not read-only volume can be scanned.

scan_without_extension

boolean

Specifies whether or not files without any extension can be scanned.

vscan_on_access

An On-Access policy that defines the scope of an On-Access scan. Use On-Access scanning to check for viruses when clients open, read, rename, or close files over CIFS. By default, ONTAP creates an On-Access policy named "default_CIFS" and enables it for all the SVMs in a cluster.

Name Type Description

enabled

boolean

Status of the On-Access Vscan policy

mandatory

boolean

Specifies if scanning is mandatory. File access is denied if there are no external virus-scanning servers available for virus scanning.

name

string

On-Access policy ame

scope

scope

error_arguments

Name Type Description

code

string

Argument code

message

string

Message argument

error

Name Type Description

arguments

array[error_arguments]

Message arguments

code

string

Error code

message

string

Error message

target

string

The target parameter that caused the error.