Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

This is a VCS clustered file server

Select the check box if the Veritas File System server is part of a Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) configuration.

VCS cluster name

Enter the logical name of the VCS cluster. This field is available only if you select the This is a VCS clustered file server check box.

Cluster Node IP addresses

Enter the comma-separated list of the host names or IP addresses of the physical nodes in the VCS cluster.

Filer hostname or IP address

Enter the hostname or IP address of the filer that you want Data Insight to monitor.

Collector

Do the following:

Data Insight connects to the filer from this server. It is recommended that the Collector worker node share a fast network with the filer.

Indexer

Do the following:

Events and meta-data collected from the filer is processed and stored on the Indexer node.

You can also migrate the file server to another Indexer.

Login credentials

See Credentials required for configuring Veritas File System (VxFS) servers.

Specifying filer administrator credentials is optional, if you choose not to monitor events on the filer, nor enable share discovery.

Test credentials

Click to test the availability of network connection between the Collector worker node and the filer, and to test the validity of the specified credentials.

Veritas recommends that you test the connection before proceeding to ensure that Data Insight is able to connect to the filer.

Monitoring details

Select Automatically discover and monitor shares on this filer to have Data Insight automatically discover shares of the filer and add them to the configuration.

Discovery of shares takes place as soon as you add a new filer and then twice each day at 2:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.

You can also choose to add shares manually.

Exclude shares from discovery

Enter the details of shares which should not be included during discovery.

This option is available if you select Automatically discover all shares on this filer. Specify comma separated patterns that you want to ignore. Patterns can have 0 or more wildcard * characters. For example, tmp* ignores tmp_A, tmp_abc, *$ ignores shares C$, EXT$ and others.

Audit details

Select to enable file system monitoring on the filer.

Enter the following details:

Enable filer scanning

Select the checkbox to enable filer scanning according to the specified schedule.

Scanning schedule for full scans

Select one of the following to define a scanning schedule for shares of this filer:

Veritas Data Insight periodically scans shares of the filer to obtain file metadata and security descriptors. Each Collector worker node by default initiates a full scan of shares at 7:00 P.M. on the last Friday of each month.

Scanner credentials

See Credentials required for configuring Veritas File System (VxFS) servers.

Scan newly added shares immediately

Select this option to scan newly added shares immediately, instead of waiting for the normal scan schedule.