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Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-07-14

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)

Configuring file groups

By default, Data Insight sorts files into 18 file groups based on the extension of the files. The file group information is used for reporting on ownership, access pattern, and space consumption on storage devices. Data Insight uses file group information when generating the following reports:

Inactive Data by File Group
Consumption by File Group
Consumption by File Group and Owner

You can modify the default file groups by adding custom extensions or by deleting extensions from the file groups. You can also create new file groups in File Groups view from the Management Console or use the fg.exe command from the command line interface. When a new extension is added, all indexes update their extension information. This process can take several hours depending on size of your indexes. Thus, new extensions will not show in your report output till all indexes have been updated.

You can issue fthe ollowing command on your Indexer nodes to monitor the status of updating the indexes:

indexcli -j

You can search for extensions and file groups by using the filter at the top right corner of the screen.

For detailed information on fg.exe, see the Command File Reference.

To configure file groups

In the Management Console, click Settings > File Groups.
To add a new file group, click Add new file group.
Enter a logical name for the file group.
In the Extension field, enter the extension that you want to include in the file group.
Click Add Extension.
You can add multiple file extensions to a single file group.
To modify an existing file group, click the file group.
Click the delete icon corresponding to the extension you want to remove, or enter the extension that you want to include in the file group, and click Add Extension.
To delete an entire file group, click the corresponding delete icon.