Feature Request: Dashboard: SVM Connections: For CIFS add fields such as version and encryption status

[roybatty2019]

I don't know how deep you want to go with the Harvest Dashboards, but for CIFS Connections I could imagine potentially adding a few more attributes, for example:
- Auth Mechanism (auth-mechansim)
- Encryption status (smb-encryption-status)
- Signing (is-session-signed)
- CIFS Protocol version (protocol-version)

An end customer is often interested to know what type of connections their Windows clients are making: Are there any old clients e.g. using SMB 1.0 or are there any unencrypted sessions?

idle-time could also be interesting, I don't know how you would handle that, perhaps using session-id as a key to identify the specific sessions.

[cgrinds]

Hi @roybatty2019 Thanks for the feature request. We'll take a look at those and see which make sense to add.

[Hardikl]

@roybatty2019

We already have SMB dashboard in Harvest where CIFS connection related fields were displayed. This dashboard required CIFSSession template which is disabled by default due to large number of metrics, you could enable it and check Auth, Encryption, Signing and Protocol details are available.

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Regarding the idle-time requirement, There is idle_duration field in Rest call which we can accommodate.

[cgrinds]

Hi @roybatty2019 these changes are in the latest nightly build. When you get a chance, give them a try and let us know how they work for you.

[rahulguptajss]

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