Depending on your security concerns, you can either have each vFiler unit register with the virus scanner or allow the vFiler units to use the host storage system's virus scanners.
Considerations
By default, vFiler units can scan files using the virus scanners that are connected to the host storage system. For more information about vFiler units, see the Data ONTAP MultiStore Management Guide.
Step
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You can register a virus scanner in one of two ways:
- If you have several vFiler units, each owned by a separate organization, and you have security concerns, then you might want to have the virus scanner register with each vFiler unit. For more information, see your virus scan software documentation.
- If you do not have security concerns, then You can have the virus scanner register with only the physical storage system. In this way, only the storage system authenticates the virus scanner.
From the vFiler console, enter the following command: vscan options use_host_scanners [on|off]
Note: This command does not run on the default vFiler unit.
