ONTAP 9.12.1 commands

The vserver security file-directory policy create command creates a security policy for a Vserver. A policy acts as a container for various tasks where each task is a single entry that can be applied to a file/folder.

Creating a security policy is the third step in configuring and applying security ACLs to a file or folder. You will later add tasks to the security policy.

The steps to creating and applying NTFS ACLs are the following:

This step associates the policy with a Vserver.
* Create policy tasks.

A policy task refers to a single operation to apply to a file (or folder) or to a set of files (or folders). Amongst other things, the task defines which security descriptor to apply to a path.
* Apply a policy to the associated Vserver.

The following example creates a security policy named “policy1” on Vserver vs1.