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Understanding EMS alerts for Autonomous Ransomware Protection

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Understanding EMS alerts for Autonomous Ransomware Protection - FSx for ONTAP

You can use NetApp ONTAP's Events Management System (EMS) to monitor events related to ARP including potential attacks. For more information about ARP and how it detects attacks, see How ARP works and What ARP looks for.

The following table contains all of the alerts related to ARP. For more information about EMS, see Monitoring FSx for ONTAP EMS events.

EMS message name EMS message description

arw.analytics.ext.report

This message occurs when anti-ransomware analytics generate or update the suspicious file extensions report for a volume.

arw.analytics.high.entropy

This message occurs when the number of high entropy data log messages (pertaining to ransomware detection and analysis) cross the predefined threshold for a volume.

arw.analytics.probability

This message occurs when an anti-ransomware attack probability has changed from low to high on a volume.

arw.analytics.report

This message occurs when an anti-ransomware analytics report is generated or updated for a volume.

arw.analytics.suspects

This message occurs when a list of suspects generated by anti-ransomware analytics grows to a point where further investigation is needed.

arw.auto.switch.enabled

This message occurs when anti-ransomware has been automatically switched from learning mode to enabled after various conditions have been satisfied such as learning period, file creation, file write, and file extension discovery activities.

arw.new.file.extn.seen

This message occurs when a new file extension is observed in an anti-ransomware enabled volume. Its purpose is to promptly notify the user about the observed extension, which enables timely investigation.

arw.snapshot.created

This message occurs when a new ARP snapshot is created in an anti-ransomware enabled volume. Additionally, it provides information about the reason why the snapshot was created.

arw.volume.state

This message occurs when the anti-ransomware state of a volume is changed.

arw.vserver.state

This message occurs when the anti-ransomware state of an SVM is changed.

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