Veritas Alta™ Surveillance User Guide

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Product(s): Veritas Alta Surveillance (1.0)
  1. Introducing Veritas Alta Surveillance
    1.  
      About Alta Surveillance
    2.  
      Alta Surveillance multi-tier architecture
    3.  
      System requirements
    4.  
      Sampling support for content sources
    5.  
      AI-based label predictions support for efficient review process
    6.  
      About Alta Surveillance system security
  2. Getting started
    1.  
      Signing in to Alta Surveillance
    2.  
      Signing out from Alta Surveillance
    3.  
      Launching Veritas Alta Archiving applications
    4.  
      Resetting a forgotten password
  3. Working with dashboard widgets
    1.  
      Understanding the Dashboard page
    2.  
      Viewing status summary of recently reviewed departments
    3.  
      Pinning and unpinning departments to view review status
    4.  
      Changing the order of pinned departments
    5.  
      Viewing the review status summary of escalated items
    6.  
      Viewing a summary of searches and exports
  4. Managing employee groups
    1.  
      Managing employee groups
  5. Managing departments
    1.  
      About departments
    2.  
      Understanding the Departments page
    3.  
      Searching departments
    4.  
      Creating departments
    5.  
      Moving existing departments under other departments
    6.  
      Adding monitored employees and employee groups to departments
    7.  
      Editing monitoring policies
    8.  
      Editing department details and monitoring policy
    9.  
      Managing exception employees
    10.  
      Designating employees as exception employee
    11.  
      Assigning further exception reviewers to an exception employee
    12.  
      Removing exception status
    13.  
      Removing exception reviewers
  6. Managing department users
    1.  
      Assigning users to departments
    2.  
      Removing users from departments
    3.  
      Adding new roles for users
    4.  
      Removing roles
    5. Managing role assignment for a user in departments
      1.  
        Assigning departments and exceptions to specific users
      2.  
        Removing a specific role to users in one or more departments and exceptions
  7. Managing department-level searches
    1.  
      About department-level searches
    2.  
      Guidelines for effective searches
    3.  
      Creating and running department-level searches
    4.  
      Disabling scheduled searches
    5.  
      Using proximity searches
    6.  
      Using fuzzy searches
    7.  
      Previewing search results
    8.  
      Accepting search results
    9.  
      Rejecting a search result
    10.  
      Resubmitting a search
  8. Managing department-specific hotword sets
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating department-specific hotword sets
    3.  
      Editing department-specific hotwords and hotword sets
    4.  
      Deleting department-specific hotword sets
  9. Managing department-specific labels
    1.  
      Searching department-specific labels, label groups, and single choice groups
    2.  
      Managing department-specific labels
    3.  
      Managing department-specific label groups
    4.  
      Managing department-specific single choice label groups
  10. Managing department-specific trash rules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating department-specific trash rules
    3.  
      Activating department-specific trash rules
    4.  
      Deactivating department-specific trash rules
    5.  
      Propagating department-specific trash rules
    6.  
      Unpropagating department-specific trash rules
  11. Managing department-specific allowlist rules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating department-specific allowlist rules
    3.  
      Editing department-specific allowlist rules
  12. Managing department-specific review comments
    1.  
      About department-level review comments
    2.  
      Adding department-level review comments
    3.  
      Editing department-level review comments
    4.  
      Deleting department-level review comments
    5.  
      Updating order of department-level review comments
  13. Viewing employees associated with departments
    1.  
      Viewing employee association history
  14. Managing users, roles, and permissions
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Predefined user roles and permissions
    3.  
      Adding new roles for users (employees) and employee groups
    4.  
      Editing user roles and permissions
    5.  
      Deleting user roles
    6.  
      Assigning Alta Surveillances to users (employees) and employee groups
    7.  
      Restricting users to use hotwords in searches
    8.  
      Removing a user role
  15. Managing application-level searches
    1.  
      About application-level searches
    2.  
      Viewing existing application-level searches
    3.  
      Creating and running application-level searches
    4.  
      Editing application-level searches
    5.  
      Excluding departments from application searches
    6.  
      Reinstating the excluded department for application searches
  16. Managing application-specific hotword sets
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating application-specific hotword sets
    3.  
      Editing application-specific hotwords and hotword sets
    4.  
      Deleting application-specific hotword sets
  17. Managing application-specific labels
    1.  
      Searching application-specific labels, label groups, and single choice groups
    2.  
      Managing application-specific labels
    3.  
      Managing application-specific label groups
    4.  
      Managing application-specific single choice label groups
  18. Managing application-specific trash rules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating application-specific trash rules
    3.  
      Activating application-specific trash rules
    4.  
      Deactivating application-specific trash rules
    5.  
      Propagating application-specific trash rules
    6.  
      Unpropagating application-specific trash rules
  19. Managing application-specific allowlist rules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating application-specific allowlist rules
    3.  
      Editing application-specific allowlist rules
  20. Managing application-specific review comments
    1.  
      About application-level review comments
    2.  
      Adding application-level review comments
    3.  
      Editing application-level review comments
    4.  
      Deleting application-level review comments
    5.  
      Updating order of application-level review comments
  21. Managing data requests
    1.  
      About data request
    2.  
      Creating a new data request
  22. Managing search schedules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Setting up new search schedules
    3.  
      Setting up one-time search schedules
    4.  
      Example of a one-time search schedule
    5.  
      Setting up recurring search schedules
    6.  
      Example of a recurring search schedule
    7.  
      Editing search schedules
    8.  
      Deleting search schedules
  23. Managing export operations
    1.  
      About exporting items
    2.  
      Performing export runs
  24. Managing reviews
    1.  
      About reviewing with Alta Surveillance
    2.  
      Limitations on reviewing certain types of Skype for Business content
    3.  
      Understanding the Review page
    4.  
      Changing the Preview pane position
    5.  
      Rearranging columns in the item list pane
    6.  
      Filtering the items in the Review pane
    7.  
      Viewing dynamic review item counts on the calendar
    8.  
      Reviewing searched items
    9.  
      Adding or removing text for machine learning
    10.  
      Assigning review status to items
    11.  
      Viewing hotwords highlighting
    12.  
      Viewing hotwords in collaboration message
    13.  
      Viewing tags highlighting
    14.  
      Viewing predicted labels of review items
    15.  
      Viewing the full content in a new window
    16.  
      Adding comments to items
    17.  
      Escalating the review items
    18.  
      Applying labels to items
    19.  
      Viewing history of items
    20.  
      Printing and downloading the items and attachments
    21.  
      Viewing Intelligent Review Details
  25. Working with reports
    1.  
      About Alta Surveillance reports
    2.  
      Predefined reports
    3. Enhanced reporting
      1.  
        Configuring a reporting endpoint
      2.  
        Authentication
      3. Departments API
        1.  
          Departments - List
      4. Users API
        1.  
          Users - List
      5. UserRoles API
        1.  
          UserRoles - List by filters
      6. Roles API
        1.  
          Roles - List
        2.  
          Roles - List by filters
      7. ItemMetrics API
        1.  
          ItemMetrics - List
        2.  
          ItemMetrics - List by filter
      8. ReviewerMapping API
        1.  
          ReviewerMapping - List
      9. MonitoredEmployees API
        1.  
          MonitoredEmployees - List
      10.  
        Evidence Of Review By Dept Async API
      11.  
        Report Status API
      12. Evidence of Review by Department API
        1.  
          EvidenceOfReviewByDept - List by filter
      13.  
        Supported OData query options
      14.  
        Supported reporting endpoint API filters and their values
      15.  
        Responses
    4. Managing Power BI templates for reporting APIs
      1.  
        Guidelines for using Alta Surveillance templates with Microsoft Power BI Desktop
      2.  
        Configuring Microsoft Power BI Templates for Reporting APIs
      3.  
        TEMPLATE - Item Metrics
      4.  
        TEMPLATE - Reviewer Mapping
      5.  
        TEMPLATE- Evidence Of Review By Department - Submit report request
      6.  
        TEMPLATE- Evidence Of Review By Department - View report data
      7.  
        Saving, editing, and refreshing the Power BI reports
  26. Managing Audit Settings
    1.  
      Audit Settings Overview
    2.  
      Editing the Audit Settings
  27. Working with Audit viewer
    1.  
      About Audit viewer
    2.  
      Performing a search for audit records

Guidelines for using Alta Surveillance templates with Microsoft Power BI Desktop

Here are the guidelines you must follow when using Reporting API Templates in Microsoft Power BI:

  • Ensure that the correct credentials are used for Power BI template.

    When loading Reporting API templates in Microsoft Power BI Desktop, select Basic Authentication when prompted, and enter the Username as ReportingApiUser and the Password as either a primary or secondary API Key that are generated after configuring the reporting endpoint

  • Ensure that the Power BI Desktop privacy levels are appropriate.

    Some Alta Surveillance Power BI templates combine data from multiple Reporting API endpoints and visualize the data. To achieve this, multiple PowerQueries are created within the template and the resulting data from one reporting API endpoint is shared with reporting API endpoint.

    In Microsoft Power BI Desktop application, the Privacy Level feature employs policies for sharing data of API across other API. For more details, refer to Power BI Desktop privacy levels.

    Since the Reporting APIs of Alta Surveillance operate externally (outside the organization calling it), you must specify the Privacy Level as Public for each Data Source. Occasionally, you may need to globally ignore the Privacy Levels so that the Reporting API Templates function properly.

  • Ensure that the cached credentials are correct.

    Microsoft Power BI Desktop caches credentials entered when connecting to the Reporting API. Upon reloading the Power BI template, it does not prompt for credentials again. If credentials change, such as due to an expired Access Key, you must clear the cached credentials.

    To clear them, navigate to File > Options and settings > Data source settings, and clear the credentials for all data sources. This is one of the troubleshooting steps if the template cannot connect.