Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

To import additional attributes

1. Create and save a .csv file, customattr.csv in the users folder in the Data Insight data directory on the Management Server. By default, the users directory on the Management Server is located at C:\DataInsight\data\users.

   Note:

   When you save a .csv file with multibyte characters, you must select UTF-8 encoding instead of unicode or default encoding.

   The .csv file must contain the following information:

   • Whether the entity is a user or group.

   • The name of the user or group in the format, logon_name@domain name.

   • The type of custom attribute, for example, Email or DN. Four types of custom attributes are defined, Integer, String, DNString, and Email.

   • The name of the custom attribute.

   • The value of the custom attribute. In case a custom attribute has multiple values, list each value separated by commas.

   <user/group>,<logon_name@domain>,<value_type>,<attribute_name>,<value1> <value2>,...<value_n>.

   For example, user, John_Doe@mycompany.com, integer, age, 26

2. The information that is contained in the .csv file is imported into the users database when the next Active Directory scan runs. To do so immediately, run the following command:

   adcli.exe - - mode importcustomattr - - csvfile <location of csv file>