Enterprise Vault™ Classification using the Veritas Information Classifier

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.3)
  1. About this guide
    1. Introducing this guide
      1.  
        Relationship between the Veritas Information Classifier and other classification methods
    2.  
      What's in this guide
    3. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Preparing Enterprise Vault for classification
    1.  
      About the preparatory steps
    2.  
      What you need
    3.  
      Checking the cache location on the Enterprise Vault storage servers
    4.  
      Setting up the Data Access account
    5.  
      Enabling the Veritas Information Classifier on all Enterprise Vault servers
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Information Classifier for secure client connections
  3. Setting up Veritas Information Classifier policies
    1.  
      Introducing the Veritas Information Classifier
    2.  
      Opening the Veritas Information Classifier
    3.  
      Finding your way around
    4.  
      Analyzing sample content for policy matches
    5. About policies
      1.  
        Creating or editing policies
      2.  
        About policy conditions
      3.  
        Enabling or disabling policies
      4.  
        Exporting or importing policies
      5.  
        Resetting policies
      6.  
        Deleting policies
    6. About patterns
      1.  
        Creating or editing patterns
      2.  
        Exporting or importing patterns
      3.  
        Deleting patterns
    7. About tags
      1.  
        Creating or editing tags
      2.  
        Exporting or importing tags
      3.  
        About the Enterprise Vault index properties
      4.  
        How classification property values and retention categories interact
      5.  
        Points to note on setting retention categories
      6.  
        Deleting tags
  4. Defining and applying Enterprise Vault classification policies
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault classification policies
    2. Defining classification policies
      1.  
        Configuring classification policies to assign retention categories with the shortest duration
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with classification policies
    4.  
      Associating classification policies with retention plans
    5.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with retention plans
    6.  
      Applying retention plans to your Enterprise Vault archives
  5. Running classification in test mode
    1.  
      About classification test mode
    2.  
      Implementing classification test mode
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for running classification in test mode
    4.  
      Understanding the classification test mode reports
  6. Using classification with smart partitions
    1.  
      About smart partitions
    2.  
      How Enterprise Vault determines whether to archive an item to a smart partition
    3.  
      Setting up smart partitions
    4.  
      Verifying that Enterprise Vault has archived items to smart partitions
  7. Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in custom field searches
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault properties
    2.  
      System properties
    3.  
      Attachment properties
    4.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties
    5.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
    6.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
    7.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Compliance Accelerator-processed items
    8.  
      Custom properties for use by policy management software
    9.  
      Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
  8. Appendix B. PowerShell cmdlets for use with classification
    1.  
      About the classification cmdlets
    2.  
      Disable-EVClassification
    3.  
      Get-EVClassificationPolicy
    4.  
      Get-EVClassificationStatus
    5.  
      Get-EVClassificationTestMode
    6.  
      Get-EVClassificationVICTags
    7.  
      Initialize-EVClassificationVIC
    8.  
      New-EVClassificationPolicy
    9.  
      Remove-EVClassificationPolicy
    10.  
      Set-EVClassificationPolicy
    11.  
      Set-EVClassificationTestMode
  9. Appendix C. Classification cache folder
    1.  
      How Enterprise Vault caches the items that it submits for classification
    2.  
      Limits on the size of classification files
    3.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder
  10. Appendix D. Migrating from FCI classification to the Veritas Information Classifier
    1.  
      Converting FCI classification rules for use with the Veritas Information Classifier
  11. Appendix E. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1.  
      Auditing
    2.  
      Checking the classification performance counters
    3.  
      Troubleshooting classification
    4.  
      Searching archives for items that the Veritas Information Classifier has classified

Get-EVClassificationVICTags

Note:

This cmdlet is only for use with the Veritas Information Classifier in Enterprise Vault 12.2 and later. It is not designed for use with the classification features in earlier versions of Enterprise Vault, such as classification using the Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure (FCI).

For the specified pair of plain-text (.txt) files in the classification cache folder, Get-EVClassificationVICTags returns details of the matching Veritas Information Classifier policies and the associated classification properties. Run the cmdlet on an Enterprise Vault server.

By default, Enterprise Vault empties the cache folder at the first opportunity. However, you can configure it to retain the cache contents by choosing a setting in the Administration Console.

See Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder.

Get-EVClassificationVICTags is provided by the snap-in Symantec.EnterpriseVault.PowerShell.Snapin.dll.

Syntax

Get-EVClassificationVICTags [-ContentFile] <String> [-MetadataFile] <String> [<CommonParameters>]

Parameters

Table: Get-EVClassificationVICTags parameters

Parameter

Description

-ContentFile (required)

The path to the plain-text content file for which to return the classification details (usually the text file whose name ends VC.txt). Enclose file names that contain a dollar sign ($) in single quotation marks (').

-MetadataFile (required)

The path to the plain-text metadata file for which to return the classification details (usually the text file whose name ends VMD.txt). Enclose file names that contain a dollar sign ($) in single quotation marks (').

Examples

  • Get-EVClassificationFCITags -ContentFile 'E:\EVCache\Classification\EV$9...B8VC.txt' -MetadataFile 'E:\EVCache\Classification\EV$9...8VMD.txt'

    Returns the classification details for the specified plain-text files.

Output

This cmdlet returns an array of objects of type Symantec.EnterpriseVault.PowerShell.Commands.ClassificationProperty, which have the following properties.

Table: Get-EVClassificationVICTags properties

Name

Type

Description

PolicyName

String

The Veritas Information Classifier policy that matched.

Category

String

The evtag.category values that matched.

Inclusion

String

The evtag.inclusion values that matched.

Exclusion

String

The evtag.exclusion values that matched.

Discard

Boolean

Whether the item would be discarded.

RetentionCategories

String

The retention categories that matched.