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Arctera Insight Information Governance Installation Guide

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Product(s): Data Insight (7.2.2)
Platform: Windows
  1. Understanding the Arctera Insight Information Governance architecture
    1.  
      About Arctera Insight Information Governance
    2.  
      About the Management Server
    3. About the Collector worker node
      1.  
        About the Collector
      2.  
        About the Scanner
    4.  
      About the Indexer worker node
    5.  
      About the Classification worker node
    6.  
      About the Self-Service Portal node
    7.  
      About Communication Service
    8.  
      About the DataInsightWatchdog service
    9.  
      About the DataInsightWorkflow service
    10. About Arctera Insight Information Governance installation tiers
      1.  
        About three-tier installation
      2.  
        About two-tier installation
      3.  
        About single-tier installation
  2. Preinstallation
    1.  
      Pre-installation steps
    2.  
      Minimum system requirements
    3.  
      System requirements for classification components
  3. Installing Arctera Insight Information Governance
    1.  
      About installing Arctera Insight Information Governance
    2.  
      Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
    3.  
      Performing a single-tier installation
    4.  
      Performing a two-tier installation
    5.  
      Performing a three-tier installation
    6.  
      Installing the Management Server
    7.  
      Installing the worker node
    8.  
      Installing the Classification Server
    9.  
      Installing the Self-Service Portal
    10.  
      Installing a Linux Classification Server or Collector worker node
    11.  
      Installing Arctera Insight Information Governance in Azure Cloud Environment
    12.  
      Installing Arctera Insight Information Governance in AWS Cloud Environment
  4. Upgrading Arctera Insight Information Governance
    1.  
      Upgrading Information Governance to 7.2.2
    2.  
      Upgrading the product data using the Upgrade Data Wizard
    3.  
      Names and locations of cache files
    4.  
      Upgrading the Information Governance web service for SharePoint
  5. Post-installation configuration
    1.  
      Post-installation configuration
    2.  
      Registering the worker node
    3. About post-installation security configuration for Management Server
      1.  
        About SSL client/server certificates
      2.  
        Enabling CA signed certificates for inter-node communication
      3.  
        Generating Management Console certificate
    4.  
      Configuring your corporate firewall
  6. Installing Windows File Server agent
    1.  
      About Windows File Server agent
    2.  
      Installing Windows File Server agent manually
    3.  
      Configuring the Windows File Server using ConfigureWindowsFileServer.exe
  7. Getting started with Information Governance
    1.  
      About the Information Governance Management Console
    2.  
      Logging in to the Information Governance Management Console
    3.  
      Logging out of the Information Governance Management Console
    4.  
      Displaying online help
  8. Uninstalling Arctera Insight Information Governance
    1.  
      Uninstalling Arctera Insight Information Governance
  9. Appendix A. Installing Information Governance using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Installing Information Governance using response files
    3.  
      Sample response files

Minimum system requirements

Table: Minimum system requirements

Component

Operating System

Minimum Hardware

Management Server

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2025

  • 32GB RAM

  • 16 CPUs

Collector worker node

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022.

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x

  • 8GB RAM

  • 4 CPUs

Indexer worker node

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022.

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x

  • 32 GB RAM

  • 16 CPUs

Classification worker node

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022.

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x

  • 32 GB RAM

  • 16 CPUs

Windows File Server Agent

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022.

  • Windows Server 2025

  • 4 GB RAM

  • 2 CPUs

Self‐Service Portal Node

  • Windows Server 2016.

  • Windows Server 2019.

  • Windows Server 2022.

  • Windows Server 2025

  • 8 GB RAM

  • 4 CPUs

SharePoint Agent

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2016

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2019

Not Applicable

  • For Windows Server 2016 and 2019: Standard, Essential, and Data center editions are supported.

  • For Windows Server 2022: Standard and Data center editions are supported.

  • For Windows Server 2025: Standard edition is supported.

  • Enterprise Edition is supported when Windows Server 2016 is being used as the Collector node for NFS exports on devices.

  • Information Governance can run on VMware ESX virtual machines, using any operating systems listed in the table above. (Recommended ‐ ESX /ESXi 4.0 and higher VM version 7.0.)