PowerStoreOS 3.0 introduces Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CEPA delivers SMB and NFS file and directory event notifications to a server, enabling them to be parsed and controlled by third-party applications. You can implement this feature for use cases such as detecting ransomware, monitoring user access, configuring quotas, and providing storage analytics. The event notification solution consists of a combination of the PowerStore, Common Event Enabler (CEE) CEPA software, and a third-party application.
CEPA includes the following facilities that can be used by third-party applications:
PowerStoreOS 3.0 also introduces File-Level Retention (FLR). FLR is a feature that can protect file data from deletion or modification until a specified retention date. This functionality is also known as Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM).