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
Managing site collections
On the site collections details page, you can view detailed information about a site collection, and edit or delete the site collection. You can also run a scan on the site collection from this page.
Use the provided dynamic search filter to search for configured sites based on the name of the site.
To view configured site collections
- In the Console, click Settings > SharePoint Sources.
- In the SharePoint Sources list page, click the web application that the site collections are a part of.
- On the web application details page, click Monitored Site Collections.
The screen displays a list of all configured site collections.
- On the Site Collections listing page, review the following information about the configured site collections.
The name of the site collection.
The URL of the site collection
The scanning schedule for the site collection. By default, this column is hidden. To unhide this column, click the column heading and select Columns > Scanning Schedule .
The date and time of the last full scan of the site collection.
The time this site collection's index was last updated with scan information.
After every scan, the index is updated with information about the changes to the folder hierarchy on a site collection. This column indicates whether the last update was successful or has failed. It also indicates number of scan files pending for this site collection on the Indexer and the number of files that failed to be indexed. The files that failed to be indexed, are present in the
$data/indexer/err
folder on the Indexer. If you do have failed files on the indexer, you can move them from theerr
folder to the$data/inbox
folder and attempt a full scan of the site collection.If the scan information again fails to be indexed, contact Veritas support.
The time this site collection's index was last updated with access event information.
As new access events come in, the index for the site collection is periodically updated with information about these events. This indicates whether the last update was successful or has failed. It also indicates number of audit files pending for this site collection at the Indexer and the number of files that failed to be indexed. Audit files are present in the
$data/indexer/err
folder on the Indexer. If you do have failed files on the indexer, you can try moving them back to$data/inbox
folder on the Indexer.If the new audit information again fails to be indexed, contact Veritas support.
The status of event monitoring for the site collection, whether enabled or disabled. By default, this column is hidden.
Whether a legal hold is being enforced for the site collection. You can choose to prevent access information for a site collection from being archived or deleted by putting a legal hold on the site collection. Data Insight preserves the access events information for such site collections indefinitely. By default, this column is hidden.
- Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data on the Monitored Site Collections panel to a .csv file.
You can also edit the properties of the site collection, start an unscheduled scan of the site collection, delete the site collection, view the event log or scan history of the site collection, or download logs for troubleshooting purposes.
To edit a site collection
- On the web application details page, click Monitored Site Collections.
- Select the site collection that you want to edit, and from the Select Action drop-down, select Edit.
- On the Edit site collection screen, make the necessary configuration changes.
- Click Save.
To delete a site collection
- On the web application details page, click Monitored Site Collections.
- Select the site collection that you want to delete, and from the Select Action drop-down, select Delete.
- Click OK on the confirmation message.
To view the scan status of a site collection
- On the web application details page, click Monitored Site Collections.
- Select the site collection for which you want to view the scan history, and from the Select Action drop-down, select Scan Status.
The scan status for the site collection appears.
You can also view the scan history and scan errors for a site collection.
See Viewing scan errors .
To view events pertaining to a site collection
- In the Console, click Settings > SharePoint Sources, and select a web application.
- On the web application details screen, click Monitored Site Collections.
- Click the Select Action drop-down for the corresponding site collection, and select Event Log.
The event log for that site collection appears.
- To download the logs for the site collection, click the Select Action drop-down for the corresponding site collection, and select Download Logs.
Data Insight downloads a compressed folder containing the logs for this site collection from all relevant Data Insight servers.
To scan site collections in a batch
- On the Monitored site collections tab, select a configured site collection, and select Scan from the Select Action drop down corresponding to a share.
Note:
The Scan option is not available for site collections that have been disabled.
- To scan multiple site collections, select one or more site collections using the check boxes.
- Click Scan, and select Scan Selected Records.
Optionally, filter site collections as needed using the filters available on the page. ClickScan, and select Scan Filtered Records.
Note:
You can use a command line utility, scancli.exe
, to further customize the scan, view the scan jobs running on a specified node, or display the scan status for specified site collections. For details, See scancli.exe. You can also use the Scanning dashboard view to scan shares and site collections based on more granular criteria.
To enable or disable site collections
- In the Management Console, click Settings > SharePoint Sources.
- Click the web application that the site collections are a part of.
- On the filer detail screen, click Monitored Site Collections.
- Click the Action drop-down corresponding to a share, and select Enable to enable a site collection that has been disabled.
- Click the Action drop-down corresponding to a share, and select Disable to disable a site collection.