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Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-07-14

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)

Configuring an administrator account for Data Insight

Data Insight uses a Global administrator account to discover the site collections and scan metadata and a SharePoint administrator account to fetch the access events from the configured SharePoint Online account. Global administrator accounts must have full control over the site collections that you want Data Insight to monitor. You must configure the Global administrator, as owner for team site collections, on the Office 365 interface and assign the administrative privileges for the target site collections.

Note:

Data Insight expects you to procure a separate add-on cloud license to monitor cloud storage resources. It disables addition of cloud storage sources if you do not have a valid base and cloud license or if your license has expired.

To add a SharePoint administrator

Log on to Office 365 using the Global admin credentials.
On the SharePoint admin center page, click Users > Active users > Add a user.
The New User pop-up windows opens.
Enter the name of the user and other properties as appropriate.
In the Roles section, select Customized administrator > SharePoint administrator.
Click Add.

The SharePoint administrator account collects metadata about site collection content, and gathers audit data from SQL Server databases for SharePoint when it is assigned administrative privileges for the target site collections. It must also have full control permissions on the configured site collections and the site collections that are incrementally included to the SharePoint account. For team site collections, the SharePoint administrator should be an owner.

To add a Global administrator

Log on to Office 365 using the Global admin credentials.
On the SharePoint admin center page, click Users > Active users > Add a user.
The New User pop-up windows opens.
Enter the name of the user and other properties as appropriate.
In the Roles section, select Global administrator.
Click Add.

The Global administrator has access to all features in the Admin center and can perform all tasks in the Office 365 Admin center.

To configure administrative privileges on site collections

On the SharePoint admin center page, select the site collection URL that you want Data Insight to monitor.
Click Owners > Manage Administrators.
The manage administrators pop-up window opens.
In the Site Collection Administrators field, specify the administrator account which must have the administrator privileges on the selected site collections. You can specify multiple user accounts separated by a comma.
Click OK.

To assign owners for team site collections

On the SharePoint admin center page, go to Groups > Groups, and select the Group Name to which you want to assign owners.
In the Group details pane on the right-hand-side, click Edit for the Owners entry.
In the Edit pane, click Add owner and select the check box of a user that is a SharePoint administrator.
Click Save.