Before you plan and create your FPolicy configuration, you should understand the basics of how FPolicy works.
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What the two parts of the FPolicy solution are
There are two parts to an FPolicy solution. The Data ONTAP FPolicy framework manages activities on the cluster and sends notifications to external FPolicy servers. External FPolicy servers process notifications sent by Data ONTAP FPolicy.
What synchronous and asynchronous notifications are
FPolicy sends notifications to external FPolicy servers via the FPolicy interface. The notifications are sent either in synchronous or asynchronous mode. The notification mode determines what Data ONTAP does after sending notifications to FPolicy servers.
How FPolicy works with external FPolicy servers
After FPolicy is configured and enabled on the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), FPolicy runs on every node on which the SVM participates. FPolicy is responsible for establishing and maintaining connections with external FPolicy servers (FPolicy servers), for notification processing, and for managing notification messages to and from FPolicy servers.
How FPolicy services work across SVM namespaces
Data ONTAP provides a unified Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) namespace. Volumes across the cluster are joined together by junctions to provide a single, logical file system. The FPolicy server is aware of the namespace topology and provides FPolicy services across the namespace.
