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Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-07-14

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)

Add/Edit SharePoint Online account options

Use this dialog box to add a new SharePoint Online account to Veritas Data Insight or to edit the configuration of an existing account.

Table: Add/Edit SharePoint Online account options

Field	Description
SharePoint Online Account URL	Enter the URL of the SharePoint Online URL that you want Data Insight to monitor. For example, `https://myaccount.sharepoint.com`
Collector	Do the following: Click Select Collector. The Select Collector pop-up displays the configured Collectors that are available for selection. Review the performance parameters such as disk and CPU utilization and backlog of files accumulating on the configured nodes. It is recommended that you assign a node on which the resource utilization is low. Click Select to assign the Collector to the filer. Data Insight connects to the SharePoint server from the Collector node. It is recommended to choose the Collector worker node that is close in proximity to the SharePoint Online account server. Collector node should be running on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016.
Indexer	Do the following: Click Select Indexer. The Select Indexer pop-up displays the configured indexers that are available for selection. Review the performance parameters such as disk and CPU utilization and backlog of files accumulating on the configured nodes. You can also view the number of devices, shares or site collections assigned to each configured node. It is recommended that you assign a node on which the resource utilization is low. Click Select to assign the Indexer to the filer. Events and metadata that are collected from the site collections are processed and stored on the Indexer node.
Client ID Client Secret Key	The client ID is the unique application ID assigned when you create and register an app with Microsoft. Follow the procedure described in the following topic to get these details: See Registering Data Insight with Microsoft to enable SharePoint Online account monitoring .
Authorize access	Do the following: Click Authorize. This invokes the application authorized to access the SharePoint Online account. . Note: Ensure that you use the credentials of a Office 365 user with Microsoft Global administrator role for authorizing Data Insight. This step creates an authorization token that is stored as a named credential in the Data Insight configuration. You will be redirected to the Data Insight console to complete the rest of the configuration. Data Insight can now access the user, folder and file metadata and the information about the activities performed on these files and folders.
Automatically discover and add site collections in this SharePoint Online account	This check box is selected by default. This option allows you to automatically include all site collections in the selected Online account for the purpose of monitoring. Clear the check box to add site collections manually. You can do this from the Online account details page. Discovery of site collections takes place as soon as you add a SharePoint Online account and then twice each day at 2:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.
Exclude following site collections from discovery	Enter the details of the site collections which should not be included during discovery. This option is available when you select Automatically discover and add site collections in the added SharePoint Online Accounts. Specify comma separated patterns that you want to ignore. Patterns can have 0 or more wildcard * characters. For example, https://onlineaccount1/sites/test* ignores site collections https://onlineaccount1/sites/testsite1 and https://onlineaccount1/sites/testsite2.
Monitor SharePoint accesses to this SharePoint Online account	By default, Microsoft SharePoint Event Monitoring is enabled. If disabled, select this check box to enable event monitoring on the SharePoint Online account. You must manually enable auditing in the Office 365 Admin Center to enable Data Insight to collect audit logs for the SharePoint Online account. From the SharePoint Online Credentials drop-down, select the credentials of a user with SharePoint administrator role which has been assigned the View-Only Audit Logs or Audit Logs privilege. Note: The user used for auditing of the SharePoint Online account should be set to `username@DOMAIN.com` instead of `DOMAIN\username`. Microsoft supports the User Principal Name (UPN) for connecting to a remote Exchange server.
Enable Scanning for this SharePoint Online account	Select the check box to enable SharePoint account scanning according to the specified schedule.
Scanning schedule (for full scans)	Select one of the following to define a scanning schedule for the SharePoint Online account: Use the Collector's scanning schedule. Define custom schedule. From the drop-down, select the appropriate frequency. Veritas Data Insight periodically scans site collections to obtain file metadata. Each Collector worker node by default initiates a full scan of the SharePoint servers at 11:00 P.M. each night. Note: You can also customize the schedule for each site collection using the Add/Edit Site Collection dialog box.
Scan newly added site collections immediately	Select this option to scan newly added site collections immediately instead of waiting for the regular scan schedule. Scanning will still proceed only when scanning is permitted on the Collector node.