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Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring

Last Published: 2024-09-02

Product(s): Enterprise Vault (15.1)

Preparing file servers for FSA

You can configure and manage file servers in Enterprise Vault with the Vault Service account or an account that belongs to a suitable administrator role. The predefined administrator roles that permit FSA administration are the File Server Administrator and the Power Administrator.

See "Managing administrator security" in the Administrator's Guide.

The account that you use must have local administrator rights on the computer on which you run the Administration Console.

For Windows file servers, the account must also meet the following requirements:

To perform the following actions, the account must be a member of the local Administrators group on the file server:
- Installation of the FSA Agent, from the Vault Administration Console or manually.
- Configuring or reconfiguring the resource for a file server cluster. The account must be a member of the local Administrators group on each of the file server cluster nodes.
The account must have Full control on any share that is configured as a target volume. The account must also have NTFS read permission on the folder that the share maps to.
If you want to browse in the Administration Console when selecting folders as targets, the account must have Browse permissions on the target folders. Otherwise you must specify the folder path by typing it.

For Windows file server targets, if you do not want to add the Vault Service account as a member of the local Administrator's group on the file server, the account can run as a member of the built-in local Print Operators group, and with a set of minimum permissions and privileges. If you install the FSA Agent, the installer configures this set of minimum requirements for the account.

See "About the permissions required by the Vault Service account for FSA" in Setting up File System Archiving.

Before configuring a NetApp file server for archiving you must set up the required administrative permissions on the file server.

For instructions on how to prepare a NetApp file server or Dell EMC Celerra/VNX device, see Setting up File System Archiving.