Enabling Ransomware Protection for HyperScale X Reference Architecture

You can enable ransomware protection for a HyperScale Backup Gateway.

Note

Ransomware protection is automatically enabled on new installations of the HyperScale X Reference Architecture.

Before You Begin

Install the latest Operating System updates in the HyperScale X nodes. For more information, see Installing Operating System Updates on Existing Nodes.

Turn on the maintenance mode for the Backup Gateway available in the node.
Login to a node.
Go to the /opt/commvault/MediaAgent64 directory.
Run the following command to enable ransomware protection:
```
 
./cvsecurity.py enable_protection -i InstanceID
```
Where:

InstanceID is the ID of the instance. For example, Instance001.
Reboot the node for the ransomware protection to take effect.

The reboot operation is required only when you enable the protection for the first time.
Repeat the above steps on all the nodes in the HyperScale environment.
Turn off the maintenance mode on all the Backup Gateway available in the nodes.

Ransomware will be enabled in the Backup Gateway and can be viewed as follows:

From the navigation pane, go to Manage > Infrastructure.

The Infrastructure page appears.
Click the Backup Gateway tile.

The Backup Gateways page appears.
Click the Backup Gateway in which you enabled ransomware

In the Control section, the Ransomware Protection toggle key will be enabled. (The toggle key will appear grayed out.)

The software logs the activities of the ransomware protection in the /var/log/cvsecurity.log file.
The software logs any unauthorized activities in the /var/log/audit/audit.log file.