User Guide

2. Select NAS Settings.
3. In the Event Publishing window, select Publishing Pools and then select Create.
4. Enter a Pool Name.
5. Enter the CEPA server FQDN.
6. In the Event Configuration section, click the event types and select the events that you want to add to the pool.
7. Click Apply to create the Events Publishing Pool.
Create an event publisher
About this task
After configuring publishing pools, create an event publisher to set the response to the different event types.
NOTE: Event publishers are created at the system level and one event publisher can be associated with multiple NAS
servers.
Steps
1. Select Storage > NAS Servers.
2. Select NAS Settings.
3. Select Event Publishers and then select Create.
4. Continue to work through the Create Event Publisher wizard.
Wizard Screen Description
Select Publishing
Pools
● Enter a name.
● Select up to 3 Publishing Pools. To create a new Publishing Pool, click Create.
Configure Event
Publisher
● Pre-Events Failure Policy - Select the wanted behavior when all CEPA servers are offline for pre-
events:
○ Ignore (default) - Assume that all events are acknowledged.
○ Deny - Deny events that require approval until CEPA servers are online.
● Post-Events Failure Policy - Select the wanted behavior when all CEPA servers are offline for
post-events:
○ Ignore (default) - Continue operating. Events that occurred while the CEPA servers are down,
will be lost.
○ Accumulate - Continue operating and save events to a local buffer (up to 500 MB).
○ Guarantee - Continue operating and save events to a local buffer (up to 500 MB). Deny access
when buffer is full.
○ Deny - Deny access to file systems when the CEPA servers are offline.
● HTTP/Microsoft RPC
● HTTP Port
5. Select Apply to create the Event Publisher.
Enabling an event publisher for a NAS server
About this task
After configuring the event publisher, enable it for the NAS server and all the file systems that are defined on it.
Steps
1. Select Storage > NAS Servers > [nas server].
2. On the Security & Events page, select Events Publishing.
3. Select an Event Publisher from the list and enable it.
4. Select whether to enable the event publisher for all the file systems that are defined on the NAS server.
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