Dell PowerStore 1200T Using the Common Event Enabler 8.x on Windows Platforms - Page 10

● Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection ● Sophos Anti-Virus ● Sophos Endpoint Security and Control ● Symantec Endpoint Protection ● Symantec Protection Engine ● Trend Micro ServerProtect for Storage This list was correct at the time of publication. The Dell E-Lab Interoperability Navigator and the Common Event Enabler Release Notes provide the latest list of supported AV engines and versions. Installing Third-Party Application Antivirus Engines contains further information about supported third-party antivirus software. Support for third-party applications CEPA provides event notifications and contexts to consumer applications that monitor the SMB/CIFS and NFS file system activity on the NAS Server. The consumer applications require event notifications from the NAS server to organize the access of information that is stored on the file systems. To provide this functionality, the CEPA API allows the consumer applications to obtain the required event information. The consumer applications need to register for notifications by using the CEPA API. The CEPA API consists of an IDL file, when using XML/MSRPC, and an XML DTD file. These files contain information that is required by an application to interact with the event publishing agent. The consumer application can coexist with CEE framework on the same client or on the remote client. CEE facilitates the use of selected third-party applications with file systems. It provides events that contain the required context as defined by the consumer applications for each class. As more applications are added to each class, the events and associated contexts are modified to accommodate the applications. Consumer applications can also acquire events when needed. This involves setting up a queue used to subscribe to a RabbitMQ Exchange. CEE forwards events to this exchange, and RabbitMQ routes the events into the correct subscriber queues. NOTE: RabbitMQ is supported only for Dell Unity and VNX systems running CEE version 8.8.2.1 and earlier. Restrictions The following are known limitations at the time of publication. AV engines CAVA pool CEPA pools Databases Non-SMB/CIFS protocols Restricted Group GPO Currently, no known limitations exist for the number of AV engines configured in the NAS Server's CEE/CAVA pool. All AV engines are surveyed periodically by the NAS Server to determine which AV engines are online and available. This implies that configuration with many AV engines can cause some delays due to network latency. Each NAS Server should have a CAVA pool consisting of a minimum of two CAVA servers. This is specified in the configuration parameters for the NAS server. In Dell systems: ● For pre-events, you can define only one CEPA pool. ● For post-events and post-error events, you can define up to three CEPA pools. Do not set up realtime scanning of databases. Accessing a database usually triggers a high number of scans, which in turn can cause a large amount of lag when accessing data. To ensure that the database files are virus free, use the AV engine to schedule regular scans when the database is not in use. The Dell antivirus solution is only for the clients running the SMB or CIFS protocol. If NFS or FTP protocols are used to move or modify files, the files are not scanned for viruses. CAVA requires the antivirus domain account (AV user account) in whose context it is running to have access rights to the CHECK$ administrative share of any NAS Servers for which it is enabling AV protection. 10 Introduction