Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Is a MSCS clustered file server

Select the check box if the Windows File Server is part of a Microsoft Cluster Server configuration.

Windows server name/Cluster name

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

In case of a clustered Windows File Server, enter the host name or IP address of the cluster.

Select Collector node for this filer

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.

Select Indexer node for this filer

Do the following:

Events and metadata that are collected from the cluster are processed and stored on the Indexer node.

You can also migrate the file server to another Indexer.

Monitor mode

Select one of the following monitoring options:

Agent names for this filer

This option is visible when adding a clustered file server that is monitored using an agent, but where the agent is installed manually.

Select one or more agent nodes from the list that belong to this cluster.

This option is also visible when editing a clustered file server.

Let Data Insight install the agent automatically

Select to allow Data Insight to install or upgrade the agent on the Windows File Server.

Data Insight automatically installs the Windows File Server agent on the filer using the WMI interface and also registers the filer with the Management Server.

Node names to install agent

This option is only visible if you have selected Is a MSCS clustered file server.

In the text box, enter comma-separated IP addresses or hostnames of the Windows File Server nodes, on which you want to install the agent.

Filer Administrator Credentials

Enter the credentials that Data Insightshould use to install the agent on the Windows File Server.

Test Connection

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

Automatically discover and monitor all shares on this filer

Use this option to have Data Insight automatically discover shares of the filer and add them configuration. You can choose to exclude certain shares using the Exclude shares field. 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.

Exclude following shares from discovery

Enter the details of shares which should not be included in share 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 shares tmp_A, tmp_abc, *$ ignores shares C$, EXT$ and others.

Collect storage utilization information for the filer

Select to enable Data Insight to collect storage utilization information from the filer. This information is used to create Filer utilization and Filer Growth Trend reports.

Enable file system event monitoring

Select to enable event monitoring on the filer.

Enable filer scanning

Select the check box 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 on the last Friday of each month.

Scanner credentials

Select one of the following:

Scan new shares immediately

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

Scanning will still take place during the hours when scanning is permitted on the Collector node.