Have you assigned rights to the domain account you're using for VEE?  In the Celerra Management MMC snap-in, you assign a domain user with the privileges "EMC Event Notification Bypass" and "EMC Virus Checking".  Take a look at page 117 of the Event Enabler documentation.

You can also look at the server log with server_log server_2|grep CEPP to grab the CEPP errors.  Try grabbing the errors when you attempt to start the service.

Thanks for the quick reply.  Rights have been assigned to the user account that's running the CAVA service.  My understanding is that the datamover authenticates with the CIFSSERVER$ machine account anyway unless an msrpc user value is set in the cepp.conf.  Would it help to specify a value for the msrpc user?

Possibly - what does your cepp.conf file look like today?

Something like:

cifsserver=CIFSNAS01

surveytime=30

ft level=[1] {location=/fs_cepplogs01} {size=100}

msrpcuser=CAVAUSER1

pool name=ceppool

servers=10.20.22.10|10.20.22.11|10.20.22.12

preevents=OpenFileRead,OpenFileWrite,CreateFile,CreateDir,DeleteFile,DeleteDir,CloseModified

postevents=CloseUnmodified,RenameFile,RenameDir,SetAclFile,SetAclDir,OpenDir

posterrevents=SetAclFile,SetAclDir

option=denied

reqtimeout=5000

retrytimeout=1000

Your file might be a bit different.  Thanks!

surveytime=10

pool name=sepapool \

servers= \

postevents=* \

posterrevents=* \

option=ignore \

reqtimeout=5000 \

retrytimeout=1500

It looks like the CIFS server that was created was not joined to the domain and therefore couldn't authenticate.  After joining to the domain, the issue is resolved.  Thanks for the help Karl!