Data ONTAP includes SNMP traps to provide a trigger for certain actions (such as notification) based on information about certain auditing events.
If you want CIFS clients to receive SNMP traps for auditing events, you must register the clients using the SNMP feature of Data ONTAP. Registered clients must have SNMP software that listens for SNMP traps.
An SNMP trap is issued whenever any of the following occurs:
- The specified time interval is reached and the cifsaudit.alf file is saved.
- The specified size threshold is reached and the cifsaudit.alf file is saved.
- The default size threshold, 75 percent full, is reached and the cifsaudit.alf file is in danger of wrapping and overwriting event data, but the file is not saved because the cifs.audit.autosave.onsize.enable and cifs.audit.autosave.ontime.enable options are turned off.
- The cifsaudit.alf file has wrapped and event data has been overwritten, because none of the automatic save options are turned on.