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Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-07-14

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)

Handling NetApp home directories in Data Insight

Data ONTAP enables you to create users' home directories on the NetApp storage system. You can access your home directory share the same way you can access any other share on the file system. You can connect only to your home directory matching your user name without seeing other users' home directories. The user name for matching a home directory can be a Windows user name, a domain name followed by a Windows user name, or a UNIX user name. Refer the NetApp documentation for more details about how Data ONTAP matches a home directory with a user,

Data Insight cannot parse FPolicy events coming from home directory shares because of insufficient information regarding mapping to existing shares. To monitor events on home directory shares, you must configure an artificial share in Data Insight. This share represents all home directories on a NetApp filer, and events from the users' home directories are directed to this share. Note that Data Insight does not scan the artificial share.

To configure an artificial share in Data Insight

Log in toData Insight Management Console.
Click Settings > Filers.
Click the filer for which you want to add a share.
On the filer details page, click Monitored Shares.
On the Monitored Shares page, click Add New Share.
On the New Share pop-up, enter the following details:
- The name of the share that you want to add - CIFS.HOMEDIR.
- The physical path of the share on the filer -/CIFS.HOMEDIR..
Select the Define custom cron schedule radio button, and select Never from the schedule drop-down.
To verify that the share is added, on the Management Console, navigate to Settings > Filers.
Click the relevant filer. On the filer details page, click the Monitored Shares tab to review the list of configured shares.
Repeat the steps for each NetApp filer for which you want to add an artificial share.