Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Rule name

Enter a logical name for the Exclude rule.

Usernames/SIDs

Enter the username or SIDs that you want to exclude.

IP Addresses

Enter the IP addresses that you want to exclude.

This filter only applies to NetApp and EMC Celerra file servers.

Exclude patterns

When defining a file system rule, enter the file extensions or paths that you want to exclude. A CIFS file system path must be fully qualified path in the format, \\filer\share\folder or relative to each share, for example, <name of folder>. A NFS path must be a fully qualified physical path on the actual file system in the format, /path/in/the/physical/filesystem.

The logical operator OR is used create a rule with multiple values of the same dimension and the logical operator AND is used to combine values across dimensions in a rule. For example, if you create a rule to ignore user_foo1, user_foo2, and IP_10.209.10.20, it means that all accesses from IP_10.209.10.20 AND (user_foo1 OR user_foo2) will be ignored.

You can also specify the wildcard (*) in an exlude rule for paths. Data Insight allows the use of wildcard (*) in the following formats in an exclude rule:

For example, if you specify *<abc>*, events on all paths that have the string abc anywhere in the path name will be excluded.

When defining a SharePoint rule, enter the URL of the SharePoint web application or the site.

You can use the wildcard (*) to exclude events for URLs that contain a specified sting in its name. For example, if you specify <abc>*, events on all URLs that have the string abc anywhere in the path name are excluded.

Pattern Type

Select PREFIX or EXTENSION from the Pattern Type drop-down.

This field is only available for a file system rule.

Rule is enabled

Select the Yes radio button to enable the rule and the No radio button to disable it.