Posted On: Sep 7, 2023
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is announcing two additional capabilities that make it even easier for you to secure and audit access to your file systems: you can now create additional ONTAP file system administrator users for your file system and you can use Active Directory credentials to access the ONTAP CLI.
With FSx for ONTAP, in addition to using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and Amazon FSx API, you can also manage your file systems using the ONTAP CLI. Until today, each file system had a single user that had to be shared within organizations with multiple administrators to manage their file systems using the ONTAP CLI, making it difficult to audit administrative actions performed by each administrator. Now, you can create additional file system users to provide each administrator in your organization with their own account—making it easier for you to audit actions that each user performs.
FSx for ONTAP supports multiple authentication methods when using the ONTAP CLI, including password-based and public key authentication. Starting today, you can also choose to authenticate using Active Directory domain credentials, enabling you to centralize credential management for your file system and the rest of your organization’s infrastructure.
These new features are available for all new file systems created after July 13, 2023 in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP is available. Existing file systems will get this support during an upcoming weekly maintenance window. Learn more about ONTAP roles and users in the FSx for ONTAP user guide.