Veritas Data Insight User's Guide

To view user activity on a file or folder

1. From the Workspace navigate to the Data Sources list-view.
2. Expand a data source to display a list of configured shares, site collections, or equivalent.
3. Expand a share or site collection to view the folders, sites, document libraries, or picture libraries present within the share or the site collection.
4. Click a folder. The Summary panel populates to display additional details.
5. Click Expand Profile on the Summary panel to display the underlying folder-centric views.

   By default, the Overview tab displays a summary of the selected data repository.

6. Click User Activity.
7. By default, the Summary sub-tab displays the following attributes of a selected path for the last six months from the current date:

   • The user who created the file or folder.

   • The user who last performed the write activity on the file or folder.

   • The inferred data owner.

     If a global data owner policy is defined, the data owner is inferred based on the criteria selected in the policy. For more information on defining the data owner policy, see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.

     Note:

     All Activity Count includes all activities except permission change.

     You can also assign an inferred data owner as custodian for that location.

     See Assigning an inferred data owner as custodian.

   • The last date on which any activity was done this path.

   • The total activity count of the inferred data owner, including the number of read and write events.

   • A graphical view of the total access count for the top five users and the combined total access count for the rest of the users.

     Click on a section of the pie-chart to view the detailed audit logs for a user.

   • A tabular view of the access pattern of the top five users of the selected file or folder.

8. Click the Active Users sub-tab to display the list of users who have accessed the file or folder.

   The page also provides details of the total access count for each user and gives a break-up of the read and write accesses by the users on the file or folder for the last six months. A legend describes the color-code used to depict the count of the read, write, and other accesses for each user.

   You can also assign an active user as custodian.

   See Assigning an active user as custodian.

9. To view the user activity for the folder for a specific time period, enter the start and end dates in the From and To fields, and click Go. The system displays the access count for that period.
10. Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data to a .csv file.
11. Click Inactive Users to display a list of users who have access permission to the selected file or folder, but have not accessed it for the last six months.

    Note:

    If a domain, say A, migrates to domain B, then Inactive Users tab shows inactive user accounts from domain B. The view takes into account the activity of each user from both the domains.

12. To view a list of inactive users for a specific time period, enter the start and end dates in From and To fields, and click Go. The system displays the list of inactive users for that period.
13. Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data to a .csv file.