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Configure file and folder audit policies

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Implementing auditing on file and folder access events is a two-step process. First, you must create and enable an auditing configuration on storage virtual machines (SVMs). Second, you must configure audit policies on the files and folders that you want to monitor. You can configure audit policies to monitor both successful and failed access attempts.

You can configure both SMB and NFS audit policies. SMB and NFS audit policies have different configuration requirements and audit capabilities.

If the appropriate audit policies are configured, ONTAP monitors SMB and NFS access events as specified in the audit policies only if the SMB or NFS servers are running.