File Blocking configuration

File Blocking enables you to do the following:

File Blocking is provided as a component of the FSA Agent. When you add a new file server the wizard gives you the option to include File Blocking. If you have an existing file server, you can add the FSA Agent by right-clicking the file server and selecting "Install FSA Agent".

See Adding file servers.

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To use File Blocking in a clustered file server environment, you must configure an FSA resource in the cluster group that holds the virtual server resource. See About FSA clustering.

You configure File Blocking within a volume policy and then apply that policy to disk volumes. It is possible for the volumes also to be processed by a File System Archiving task, but there is no requirement to do this.

You configure File Blocking for a volume by applying a volume policy in which you have defined File Blocking rules. The rules control the file types that are allowed on the volume, which folders to monitor, and the actions to take when a policy violation occurs.

For example, the action could be to allow the file to be created but for a warning message to be sent to the user and the event to be logged.

File Blocking quarantines those files that are blocked because of content-checking. Files that are blocked because of their file types are not moved to quarantine.

In summary, you must do the following to configure File Blocking: