Veritas Data Insight Installation Guide

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Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)
  1. Understanding the Veritas Data Insight architecture
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      About the Management Server
    3. About the Collector worker node
      1.  
        About the Collector
      2.  
        About the Scanner
    4.  
      About the Indexer worker node
    5.  
      About the Classification Server
    6.  
      About the Self-Service Portal node
    7.  
      About Communication Service
    8.  
      About the DataInsightWatchdog service
    9.  
      About the DataInsightWorkflow service
    10. About Veritas Data Insight installation tiers
      1.  
        About three-tier installation
      2.  
        About two-tier installation
      3.  
        About single-tier installation
  2. Preinstallation
    1.  
      Preinstallation steps
    2.  
      Operating system requirements
    3. System requirements for Veritas Data Insight components
      1.  
        System requirements for classification components
    4.  
      Supported data sources and platforms
    5.  
      Supported browsers
    6.  
      List of ports
    7.  
      Web server version
  3. Installing Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      About installing Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      Performing a single-tier installation
    3.  
      Performing a two-tier installation
    4.  
      Performing a three-tier installation
    5.  
      Installing the Management Server
    6.  
      Installing the worker node
    7.  
      Installing the Classification Server
    8.  
      Installing the Self-Service Portal
    9.  
      Installing a Linux Indexer worker node
  4. Upgrading Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Upgrading Data Insight to 6.1.5
    2.  
      Upgrading the product data using the Upgrade Data Wizard
    3.  
      Names and locations of cache files
    4.  
      Upgrading the Data Insight web service for SharePoint
  5. Post-installation configuration
    1.  
      Post-installation configuration
    2.  
      Registering the worker node
    3. About post-installation security configuration for Management Server
      1.  
        About SSL client/server certificates
      2.  
        Generating Management Console certificate
    4.  
      Configuring your corporate firewall
  6. Installing Windows File Server agent
    1.  
      About Windows File Server agent
    2.  
      Installing Windows File Server agent manually
    3.  
      Configuring the Windows File Server using ConfigureWindowsFileServer.exe
  7. Getting started with Data Insight
    1.  
      About the Data Insight Management Console
    2.  
      Logging in to the Data Insight Management Console
    3.  
      Logging out of the Data Insight Management Console
    4.  
      Displaying online help
  8. Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
  9. Appendix A. Installing Data Insight using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Installing Data Insight using response files
    3.  
      Sample response files
  10.  
    Index

Names and locations of cache files

Data Insight generates cache files on the Indexer node at the time of installation or upgrade.

Data Insight creates the following persistent activity index files in each index folder for a share:

  • activityidx.info

  • dir-activity.idx.<timestamp>

  • file-activity.idx.<timestamp>

The persistent cache files contain pre-calculated summary information about users and their activity on the files and folders during the time period configured for advanced analytics. The indexer process uses the information in these files to expedite the process of servicing queries related to activity, reports, and Social Network Graph.

Each index folder for a share may also contain the following temporary files:

Table:

Name

Description

file-activity.idx.<timestamp>.<version>

dir-activity.idx.mmap.<timestamp>.<version>

Uncompressed versions of the file-activity.idx.<timestamp> and dir-activity.idx.<timestamp> files.

Since the activity index files are stored in a compressed form on disk, Data Insight creates the uncompressed files when any process attempts to read the activity index. The files remain on disk while the process is reading the files, and are deleted when the process finishes reading the activity index.

rolldir-activity.idx.<timestamp>.<version>

Temporary file created when Data Insight rolls up the activity count for folders. The file remains on the disk while the process is reading the files, and are deleted when the process finishes reading the activity index.

file-activity.idx.tmp.<timestamp>.<version>

file-activity.idx.attr.<timestamp>.<version>

dir-activity.idx.attr.<timestamp>.<version>

Temporary files created when Data Insight calculates owners for files and folders. The files remain on disk while the query or report processes the share. Data Insight deletes these files once the share is processed.

If the process that creates these temporary files stops unexpectedly, Data Insight deletes these files during the next run of the IndexWriterJob or the ActivityIndexJob processes on the shares.