Veritas Data Insight User's Guide
- Section I. Introduction
- Section II. Data Insight Workspace
- Navigating the Workspace tab
- Analyzing data using the Workspace views
- Viewing access information for files and folders
- Viewing user activity on files or folders
- About visualizing collaboration on a share
- Viewing access information for users and user groups
- Section III. Data Insight reports
- Using Data Insight reports
- About Data Insight security reports
- Permissions reports
- Permissions Search report
- Creating a Permissions Query Template
- Permissions Query Template actions
- Ownership Reports
- About Data Insight storage reports
- About Data Insight custom reports
- Managing reports
- Viewing reports
- Using Data Insight reports
- Section IV. Remediation
- Configuring remediation workflows
- Managing workflow templates
- Creating a workflow using a template
- Managing workflows
- Using the Self-Service Portal
- About the Self-Service Portal
- Managing data
- About managing data using Enterprise Vault and custom scripts
- About adding tags to files, folders, and shares
- Managing permissions
- Configuring remediation workflows
- Appendix A. Command Line Reference
About adding tags to files, folders, and shares
Data Insight lets you add text-based properties (key, value pair) to file system objects such as files, folders, and shares on the file systems that it monitors. Tagging files, folders, and shares with attributes provides additional classification information that you can use for reporting and remediation.
For example, you may want to tag folders with the business name, or assign descriptors to folders that have special permission. Or, for instance, you can tag shares with department names for the purpose of chargeback.
Data Insight supports the metadata framework on CIFS, NFS, and DFS paths, and on files and folders on SharePoint servers and Enterprise Box accounts.
Use a CSV file to add metadata tags to files, folders, and shares. Data Insight parses the CSV and imports these tags into Data Insight. You may either create the CSV file manually or use a third-party tool or script to generate the CSV with tagging information for paths.
You can generate a Data Insight Query Language (DQL) report to get the information about the tags attached to file system objects, such as, share names and paths. For example of DQL queries, see the Veritas Data Insight Programmer's Reference Guide.