Arctera Insight Information Governance Administrator's Guide

Configuring file groups

By default, Information Governance sorts files into 41 file groups based on the extension of the files. The file group information is used for reporting on ownership, access pattern, and space consumption on storage devices. Information Governance uses file group information when generating the following reports:

You can modify the default file groups by adding custom extensions or by deleting extensions from the file groups. You can also create new file groups in File Groups view from the Management Console or use the fg.exe command from the command line interface. When a new extension is added, all indexes update their extension information. This process can take several hours depending on size of your indexes. Thus, new extensions will not show in your report output till all indexes have been updated.

You can issue the following command on your Indexer nodes to monitor the status of updating the indexes:

indexcli -j

You can search for extensions and file groups by using the filter at the top right corner of the screen.

For detailed information on fg.exe, see the Command File Reference.