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Pause ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection to exclude workload events from analysis

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If you are expecting unusual workload events, you can temporarily suspend and resume Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) analysis at any time.

Beginning with ONTAP 9.13.1, you can enable multi-admin verification (MAV) so that two or more authenticated user admins are required to pause the ARP.

About this task

During an ARP pause, no events are logged nor are any actions for new writes. However, the analytics operation continues for earlier logs in the background.

Note Do not use the ARP disable function to pause analytics. Doing so disables ARP on the volume and all the existing information around learned workload behavior is lost. This would require a restart of the learning period.
Steps

You can use System Manager or the ONTAP CLI to pause ARP.

  1. Select Storage > Volumes and then select the volume where you want to pause ARP.

  2. In the Security tab of the Volumes overview, select Pause anti-ransomware in the Anti-ransomware box.

    Note Beginning with ONTAP 9.13.1, if you are using MAV to protect your ARP settings, the pause operation prompts you to obtain the approval of one or more additional administrators. Approval must be received from all administrators associated with the MAV approval group or the operation will fail.