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Veritas Data Insight 6.1 Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2017-09-03

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1)

Registering Data Insight with Microsoft to enable OneDrive account monitoring

To authorize Data Insight to access the Microsoft OneDrive account, you must create an application for every Data Insight installation and register it with Microsoft Azure Active Directory. This step involves associating a set of credentials with the application and providing the application with the required permissions, which enables communication between Data Insight and Microsoft. This step also creates an authorization token that is stored as a named credential in the Data Insight configuration.

Note:

You need a Microsoft account to add an application.

To create and register an application with Microsoft

Login to https://apps.dev.microsoft.com.
Sign-in with your Microsoft account credentials to the Microsoft Application Registration Portal.
Note:
Ensure that you use the credentials of a Office 365 user with Microsoft Global administrator role fo authorizing Data Insight.
Click Add an app, and give it a name. The portal assigns your application a unique Application ID.
Make a note of the Application ID. You will need it when configuring the OneDrive account monitoring in Data Insight.
Generate an application secret to enable Data Insight to receive that access tokens required for calling the required APIs.
Click Generate New Password. The password is required when configuring OneDrive account monitoring in Data Insight.
Click Platforms, and select Web.
Specify the URL of the Data Insight Management Server. For example, https://<IP address of the Management Server>/oneDrive.
Assign permissions to the app. Data Insight requires the application to have at least the following permissions:
Click Save.

See About configuring OneDrive monitoring.