Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introduction to Veritas Data Insight administration
- Configuring Data Insight global settings
- Overview of Data Insight licensing
- About scanning and event monitoring
- About filtering certain accounts, IP addresses, and paths
- About archiving data
- About Data Insight integration with Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Configuring advanced analytics
- About open shares
- About bulk assignment of custodians
- Section II. Configuring Data Insight
- Configuring Data Insight product users
- Configuring Data Insight product servers
- About node templates
- About automated alerts for patches and upgrades
- Configuring saved credentials
- Configuring directory service domains
- Configuring containers
- Section III. Configuring native file systems in Data Insight
- Configuring NetApp file server monitoring
- Configuring clustered NetApp file server monitoring
- About configuring secure communication between Data Insight and cluster-mode NetApp devices
- Configuring EMC Celerra or VNX monitoring
- Configuring EMC Isilon monitoring
- Configuring EMC Unity VSA file servers
- Configuring Hitachi NAS file server monitoring
- Configuring Windows File Server monitoring
- Configuring Veritas File System (VxFS) file server monitoring
- Configuring monitoring of a generic device
- Managing file servers
- Adding filers
- Adding shares
- Renaming storage devices
- Configuring NetApp file server monitoring
- Section IV. Configuring SharePoint data sources
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint web applications
- About the Data Insight web service for SharePoint
- Adding web applications
- Adding site collections
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint Online accounts
- About SharePoint Online account monitoring
- Adding SharePoint Online accounts
- Adding site collections to SharePoint Online accounts
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint web applications
- Section V. Configuring cloud data sources
- Section VI. Configuring ECM data sources
- Section VII. Health and monitoring
- Section VIII. Alerts and policies
- Section IX. Remediation
- Section X. Reference
- Appendix A. Backing up and restoring data
- Appendix B. Data Insight health checks
- Appendix C. Command File Reference
- Appendix D. Data Insight jobs
- Appendix E. Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting FPolicy issues on NetApp devices
Configuring data retention settings
Data Insight enforces the data retention policy twice a month. Archived index segments can be restored using a command line indexcli.exe
utility. The utility is also useful to enforce a more granular archiving or purging policy, if the global option is not sufficient for your needs.
See indexcli.exe.
You can configure the duration for which you want Data Insight to retain various types of data and the duration after which you want to purge data. Automatic archiving and purging of data is not enabled by default.
To configure the data retention period
- Click Settings > Data Retention.
- On the Data Retention page, click Edit.
- Enter the following information:
Purge workflows data automatically
Use the Purge workflows data automatically option to delete workflow records that are older than the configured age for purging to comply with your organization's data retention policy.
Do the following:
Select the check box to enable automatic purging of historical workflow records from Data Insight.
Enter the age of the workflow data that you want to retain so that the workflow data older than that will be purged (deleted).
Note:
This option is disabled by default to ensure that workflow data is not deleted. When you enable it, the data for workflows which are in Completed, Canceled, Error, Failure, or Failed state is deleted.
Purge report outputs automatically
Use the setting to delete old copies of reports to free up storage space on the Management Server. Unless you configure this global setting or the per report setting to preserve only a certain number of reports, Data Insight keeps unlimited copies of report outputs in its database.
Select one or both options:
Purge older report outputs if count exceeds - Enter a value that denotes the number of report outputs that you want to retain.
Note:
The number of reports to be preserved is also specified when configuring reports. The local setting for a report specified in the Maximum reports to preserve field takes precedence over the global count-based setting configured here. If you have not configured any local setting then Data Insight uses the global setting.
Purge report data older than <number of months> - Enter the duration (in months). You can choose to purge reports that are older than the configured time period.
Note:
If both, the local and the global settings are configured, then the global time-based option takes precedence for purging, and then the local count-based setting is considered.
Archive access data automatically
Do the following:
Select the check box to enable archiving of file system, SharePoint, or or cloud source events.
Enter the age of the data (in months) after which the data must be archived.
Enter the path of the archive folder.
In case, you want to archive access data immediately, execute the following command on the Indexer node:
INSTALL_DIR/bin/configcli execute_job DataRetentionJob
Purge access data automatically
Select the check box to enable purging of file system, SharePoint, or cloud source access events, and enter the age of the data (in months) after which the data must be deleted.
Purge Data Insight system events automatically
Select the check box to enable purging of Data Insight system events, and enter the age of the data (in months) after which the data must be deleted.
Data Insight system events are displayed on the Settings > Events page.
Purge alerts automatically
Select the check box to enable purging of alerts, and enter the age of the alerts (in months) after which they must be deleted.
Purge classification requests
Select the check box to delete all classification requests completed before the specified number of months.
Automatically purge data for deleted shares or site collections
Select the check box to enable purging of data pertaining to deleted shares. This option is enabled by default.
If you clear the check box, the index data for the share or site collection remains on the disk until the global archive or purge takes place. Thus, if you decide to decommission a filer, or site collection, the data continues to be available for reporting.
- Click Save.
- In case, you want to purge workflows or audit data immediately, execute the following command on Management Server:
INSTALL_DIR/bin/configcli execute_job DataRetentionJob