Connector Overview

For more information and a deep technical understanding of the EMC architecture and CEE, refer to the EMC CEE version 7.0 using the Common Event Enabler for Windows https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu48055.pdf

CEE

  • The CEE service is the EMC gateway for auditing. The Isilon OneFS communicates with the CEE service to receive event notifications.

CEE & Activity Monitor

  • Every Activity Monitor can communicate with one or more CEE servers.
  • Every CEE service can be configured to work with a multiple Activity Monitor services.

Activity Monitor

  • File Access Manager Connector for EMC Isilon uses EMC CEPA over the Common Event Enabler Framework (CEE, formerly known as CAVA) infrastructure to retrieve audit events from Isilon to access both CIFS files.
  • Similarly, The connector uses the same CEE/CEPA architecture as the File Access Manager Connector for EMC Celera/VNX.
  • The Activity Monitor for EMC Isilon can be installed on the same server as other EMC Celera/VNX CIFS/NFS Activity Monitors, and communicate with the same CEE service.
  • The first Activity Monitor which is installed on a physical server creates the Activity Monitor service.
  • Unlike other File Access Manager Activity Monitors, all subsequent Activity Monitors will not create additional Activity Monitor services.
  • Every Activity Monitor that is installed adds a bamconfig.xml file under the Activity Monitor to add itself to the same service.

The first Activity Monitor installed must be the LAST Activity Monitor uninstalled. If you uninstall the first Activity Monitor before uninstalling the other Activity Monitors, those Activity Monitors will not work, and it will not be possible to uninstall them.

This connector does not support Isilon NFS.

All activity monitors for access zones of the same cluster must be installed on the same File Access Manager server. See Installing Activity Monitors for Access Zones of the Same Cluster for more details.