Emre Kurnaz's IT Diary

One of the most struggling parts of administrating a huge NAS system like Isilon/Powerscale is Antivirus management. ICAP is the most used protocol for Antivirus scanning, which is basically, NAS is sending the file to the Antivirus server and wait for the file analysis and quarantine/truncate etc if needed. Most of the NAS admins can complain how this approach is not that much effective with the aspect of resource utilization and performance of antivirus scanning. CAVA is currently available on Powerscale OneFS versions 9.1 and later, and supports SMB protocol only. What it does is sharing the IFS filesystem only to CAVA servers over a restricted zone and IP Pool and relies on the filesystem auditing.  Whenever a file access is requested, the audit is sent to the CAVA/CEE Agent on the Antivirus server for him to identify what filepath needs to be scanned, and access the file path over CHECK$ share and performs the scan. To have a successful implementation of CAVA, please make sure...