Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Filer host name or IP address

Enter the host name or IP address of the filer that you want Data Insight to monitor.

Collector

Do the following:

Data Insight connects to the filer from this server. Veritas recommends that the Collector worker node share a fast network with the filer.

Indexer

Do the following:

Events and metadata collected from the filer are processed and stored on the Indexer node.

You can also migrate the file server to another Indexer.

See About migrating storage devices across Indexers.

Filer administrator credentials

See Credentials required for configuring NetApp filers.

Specifying the filer administrator credentials is optional, if you choose to not monitor events on the filer, nor enable share discovery.

Test credentials

Click to test the availability of network connection between the Collector worker node and the filer, and to test the validity of specified credentials.

Veritas recommends that you test the connection before proceeding to ensure that Data Insight is able to connect to the filer.

Filer is vFiler

Select the check box to indicate that this filer is a NetApp virtual file server.

Physical filer for vFiler

The host name or IP address of the physical NetApp file server that is associated with the virtual file server.

If the Data Insight FPolicy safeguard is not enabled for the virtual file server, the field is not editable.

See Configuring scanning and event monitoring .

Enable CIFS monitoring

Select this check box to enable monitoring of CIFS shares.

Enable NFS monitoring

Select this check box to enable monitoring of NFS shares.

Select domain

From the drop-down, select the domain to which the NetApp filer belongs.

This option is enabled when you enable the monitoring of NFS shares.

Monitoring details

Select Automatically discover and monitor shares on this filer to allow Data Insight automatically discover shares of the filer and add them configuration.

Discovery of shares takes place as soon as you add a new filer and then twice each day at 2:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.

You can also choose to add shares manually.

See Adding shares.

Exclude shares from discovery

Enter the details of shares which should not be included during discovery.

This option is available if you select Automatically discover all shares on this filer. Specify comma-separated patterns that you want to ignore. Patterns can have 0 or more wildcard * characters. For example, tmp* ignores tmp_A, tmp_abc, *$ ignores shares C$, EXT$, and others.

Enable storage utilization analytics

Select the check box to allow Data Insight to gather storage utilization information from the filer. This information is used when you generate Filer Utilization and Filer Growth Trend reports.

The DataInsightFpolicy service running on the Collector node gathers information about storage utilization on the filer.

Enable file system event monitoring

Select to enable event monitoring on the filer.

Enable FPolicy automatically

Select to automatically enable FPolicy on the filer.

If you clear this check box, you must manually enable FPolicy on the filer.

See Preparing the NetApp filer for Fpolicy.

Register for explicit Read events

Select the option to register for explicit Read events.

When this option is not selected, OPEN events are treated as READ events.

Veritas recommends that you do not register for explicit Read events. This can increase the load on the filer during peak traffic from third party applications such as backups over CIFS.

Enable filer scanning

Select the check box to enable filer scanning according to the specified schedule.

Scanning schedule for full scans

Select one of the following to define a scanning schedule for shares of this filer:

See Custom schedule options.

Veritas Data Insight periodically scans shares of the filer to obtain file metadata and security descriptors. Each Collector worker node by default initiates a full scan of shares at 7:00 P.M. on the last Friday of each month.

Scanner credentials

See Credentials required for configuring NetApp filers.

Scan new shares immediately

Select this option to scan newly added shares immediately, instead of waiting for the normal scan schedule. Scanning proceeds only when scanning is permitted on the Collector node.