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Unable to Upload Session to Long-Term Archive − Access to State-in-Time Folder Is Denied

Symptom

The following error is prompted in Health Log for one of or multiple monitoring plans in Netwrix Auditor:

Description: Monitoring plan: %monitoring_plan% 
The following error has occurred:
While processing the state-in-time data, Netwrix Auditor was unable to upload the session to the Long-Term Archive:
Access to the path '%Long-Term_Archive%\%monitoring_plan_SiT_folder%' is denied.

Cause

Misconfigured permissions for the Long-Term Archive (LTA) service account.

Resolution

NOTE: You can establish the affected Long-Term Archive service account by following Settings > Long-Term Archive tab > Modify under the Long-Term Archive section.

  1. Allow Full Control permissions to the Long-Term Archive service account for the following 2 folders:

    • Long-term Archive − you can establish the location by following Settings > Long-Term Archive > Write audit data to. The default location is %PROGRAMDATA%\Netwrix Auditor\Data.
    • Short-Term Archive − you can establish the location by following Health Status > Open diagnostic logs folder under Working folder > parent folder of the Logs folder. The default location is C:\ProgramData\Netwrix Auditor\ShortTerm.

    NOTE: Alternatively, you can run the following line in Command Prompt in your Netwrix Auditor server to get the value of the DataPathOverride subkey entry. The output will contain the location of Short-Term Archive in your Netwrix Auditor server:

    reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Netwrix Auditor\DataPathOverride"
  2. Grant the Long-Term Archive service account Local Administrators permissions in the Netwrix Auditor server.