Arctera Insight Information Governance Administrator's Guide

Web Application URL

Enter the URL of the web application that you want Information Governance to monitor.

Collector

Do the following:

Information Governance connects to the SharePoint server from Collector node. It is recommended that the Collector worker node share a fast network with the SharePoint server.

Indexer

Do the following:

Events and metadata that are collected from the cluster are processed and stored on the Indexer node.

Site Collection Administrator

Enter the credentials that Information Governance should use to provide authenticated access to the Information Governance web service on the SharePoint server.

See Configuring a web application policy.

Test Credentials

Click to test the availability of network connection between the Collector worker node and the SharePoint server, and to test the validity of specified credentials. You must first ensure that the Information Governance web service is already installed on the SharePoint server.

Arctera recommends that you verify the credentials before proceeding to ensure that Information Governance is able to connect to the SharePoint server.

Automatically discover and add site collections in this Web application

This checkbox is selected by default. This option allows you to automatically include all site collections in the selected web application for the purpose of monitoring.

Clear the check box to add site collections manually. You can do this from the web application details page.

Exclude following site collections from discovery

Enter the details of the site collections which should not be included during discovery.

This option is available if you select Automatically discover and add site collections in this SharePoint Web Application. Specify comma separated patterns that you want to ignore. Patterns can have 0 or more wildcard * characters.

For example, https://webapp1/sites/test* ignores site collections https://webapp1/sites/testsite1 and https://webapp1/sites/testsite2.

Monitor SharePoint accesses to this Web application

Select to enable monitoring of access events for the web application.

Automatically enable auditing for site collections of the Web application

Select to automatically enable event monitoring for all site collections of this web application.

You can also choose to manually enable auditing by logging in to the SharePoint server. For this purpose, you must have site collection administrator privileges on the SharePoint server.

Delete Audit Logs from SharePoint Database after importing into Information Governance

Select to delete audit logs from SharePoint to prevent the web application database from growing too large. By default, Information Governance deletes audit logs that are older than two days from the SharePoint server once every 12 hours. You can configure this interval from the Advanced Settings page for the corresponding Collector.

You can choose to customize how often Information Governance should delete old audit logs from the Information Governance Servers node on the Management Console.

See Configuring advanced settings.

Enable scanning for this Web application

Select the checkbox to enable SharePoint scanning according to the specified schedule.

Scanning schedule for full scans

Select one of the following to define a scanning schedule for the SharePoint servers in this farm:

Arctera Insight Information Governance periodically scans site collections to obtain file metadata. Each Collector worker node by default initiates a full scan the SharePoint servers at 11:00 P.M. each night.

Scan newly added site collections immediately

Select this option to scan newly added site collections immediately, instead of waiting for the normal scan schedule. Scanning will still proceed only when scanning is permitted on the Collector node.