Enabling Ransomware Protection for HyperScale X Appliance

You can enable ransomware protection for a HyperScale Metallic Backup Gateway.

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.

Procedure

1. Turn on the maintenance mode for the Metallic Backup Gateway available in the node.

2. Login to a node.

3. Go to the /opt/commvault/MediaAgent64 directory.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Repeat the above steps on all the nodes in the HyperScale environment.

7. Turn off the maintenance mode on all the Metallic Backup Gateway available in the nodes.

Result

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

1. From the navigation pane, go to Manage > Infrastructure.

   The Infrastructure page appears.

2. Click the Metallic Backup Gateway tile.

   The Metallic Backup Gateways page appears.

3. Click the Metallic 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.)

Additional Information

• 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.