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 scanning and event monitoring
You can configure Data Insight to globally turn on or off receipt of event notifications and safeguards related to FPolicy communication.
Data Insight allows you to disable scanning of all file systems. The scans can be enabled at any convenient time.
You can also configure whether you want the Scanner to fetch the Access Control Lists (ACLs) defined on folders and ownership information for files and folders. For Windows File Servers, you can configure safeguards that prevent an agent from taking up too much disk space.
To configure scanning and event monitoring
- In the Management Console, click Settings > Scanning and Event Monitoring.
You can view the state of scanning and event monitoring.
- To change the state of a process to Enabled or Disabled, click Edit.
- Do one of the following:
Select the check box for the process that you want to enable.
Clear the check box for the process that you want to disable.
- Click Save to save the changes.
Table: Scanning and Event Monitoring options
Option | Description |
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Scan File System meta-data | Clear the check box to turn off all future file system scanning on all filers. Once you save the setting, it will also stop all currently running scans. |
Get Folder ACLs | Clear the check box if you do not want Scanner to fetch Access Control List (ACLs) for folders during scanning. If you disable this option, the > tab in the Console is disabled and permission related reports will not produce any data. If you do not need permissions data, you can disable this option to make the scans run faster. |
Get Ownership information for files and folders | Clear the check box if you do not want Scanner to fetch the Owner attribute for files and folders. Ownership information is used to determine ownership for data when access events are not available. If you do not need this information, you can disable this option to make scans run faster. |
Throttling for NetApp filers | Select to enable throttling of Data Insight scans for NetApp 7-mode and Cluster-Mode file servers. This option is not selected by default.Data Insight collects latency information from NetApp file servers. It can use this information to throttle scanning, if latency of the file server increases above a certain level. This ensures scanner does not put additional load on the file server during peak load conditions. You can configure the following parameters to enable throttling for NetApp file servers:
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Monitor file system access events | Clear the check box to stop Data Insight from collecting access events from all file servers. In case of NetApp, it means all collector nodes will disconnect their Fpolicy connections to file servers. Note: Monitoring of file system access events is not supported for ECM data sources, such as Documentum. |
Disk safeguard settings for Windows File Server agents | Select Enable node safeguard check box to monitor the disk usage on the Windows File Server node, and to prevent it from running out of disk space by implementing safeguards. You can specify the threshold for disk utilization in terms of percentage and size. The DataInsightWatchdog service initiates the safeguard mode for the Windows File Server node if the free disk space falls under the configured thresholds. The DataInsightWatchdog service automatically resets the safeguard mode when the free disk space is more than the configured thresholds. You can edit the threshold limits as required. If you specify values in terms of both percentage and size, then the condition that is fulfilled first is applied to initiate the safeguard mode. Note: It is recommended that you configure the same safeguard thresholds for the Windows File Server and the Classification Server (if present in your environment). For more information on the DataInsightWatchdog service, see the Veritas Data Insight Installation Guide. |
Fpolicy Safeguard settings | Select the following:
This Fpolicy Safeguard settings are not selected by default. Data Insight collects latency information from NetApp file servers. It can use this information to initiate safeguard mode, if latency of the file server increases above or falls below a certain level. When the safeguard is in effect, Data Insight drops its Fpolicy connection to the filer. This ensures event collection does not put additional load on the file server in peak load conditions. If the latency (CIFS or NFS) on the physical file server increases above the configured threshold, Data Insight disconnects from the associated virtual file server even if monitoring for that type (CIFS/NFS) was not enabled on the virtual filer. This information is also displayed on the Data Insight System Overview dashboard. Configure the following values:
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You can choose to override the global scan throttling and FPolicy safeguard settings for specific Collector nodes.