Arctera Insight Information Governance Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introduction to Arctera Insight Information Governance administration
- Configuring Information Governance global settings
- About scanning and event monitoring
- About filtering certain accounts, IP addresses, and paths
- About archiving data
- About Information Governance integration with Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Configuring advanced analytics
- About open shares
- About user risk score
- About bulk assignment of custodians
- Configuring Metadata Framework
- Section II. Configuring Information Governance
- Configuring Information Governance product users
- Configuring Information Governance product servers
- About node templates
- About automated alerts for patches and upgrades
- Configuring saved credentials
- Configuring directory service domains
- Adding a directory service domain to Information Governance
- Configuring containers
- Server Pools
- Section III. Configuring native file systems in Information Governance
- Configuring clustered NetApp file server monitoring
- About configuring secure communication between Information Governance and cluster-mode NetApp devices
- Configuring EMC Celerra or VNX monitoring
- Configuring EMC Isilon monitoring
- Configuring EMC Unity VSA file servers
- Configuring Hitachi NAS file server monitoring
- Configuring Windows File Server monitoring
- Configuring Arctera File System (VxFS) file server monitoring
- Configuring monitoring of a generic device
- Managing file servers
- Adding filers
- Adding shares
- Renaming storage devices
- Configuring clustered NetApp file server monitoring
- Section IV. Configuring SharePoint data sources
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint web applications
- About the Information Governance web service for SharePoint
- Adding web applications
- Adding site collections
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint Online accounts
- About SharePoint Online account monitoring
- Adding site collections to SharePoint Online accounts
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint web applications
- Section V. Configuring cloud data sources
- Configuring monitoring of Box accounts
- Configuring OneDrive account monitoring
- Configuring Azure Netapp Files Device
- Managing cloud sources
- Section VI. Configuring Object Storage Sources
- Section VII. Health and monitoring
- Section VIII. Alerts and policies
- Configuring policies
- Managing policies
- Configuring policies
- Section IX. Remediation
- Configuring remediation settings
- Section X. Reference
- Appendix A. Information Governance best practices
- Appendix B. Migrating Information Governance components
- Appendix C. Backing up and restoring data
- Appendix D. Arctera Information Governance health checks
- About Information Governance health checks
- About Information Governance health checks
- Appendix E. Command File Reference
- Appendix F. Arctera Information Governance jobs
- Appendix G. Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting FPolicy issues on NetApp devices
Migrating Information Governance components
For migrating your existing components to a new infra, ensure that all the Information Governance Servers and Information Governance Management Server are running on the same version. If the version is different, upgrade the Information Governance servers. It is also recommended that you upgrade all Windows file server versions to the latest version. If this is not feasible, you can still leverage the backward compatibility and avoid upgrading Windows file server to the latest version.
If all the Information Governance Servers and Information Governance Management Server are running on the same version, you can start migration in the following order.
- Information Governance Indexer
- Information Governance Collector components
- Information Governance Management Server
- Removing oldInformation Governance
Migration Steps
- Disable Device Scanning on the Information Governance Collector nodes.
To disable File System Full Scan
To disable File System Incremental Scan,
c) To disable SharePoint Full Scan,
To disable SharePointOnline Incremental Scan,
- Disable Device Auditing on the Information Governance Collector nodes.
Remote desktop to Collector node and to disable auditing of
NetApp Cluster File Server devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightFpolicyCMod service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
EMC Celerra, EMC Isilon, EMC Unity devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightCelerra service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
Generic devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightGenericCollector service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
OneDrive devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightOneDrive service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
SharePointOnline devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightSharePointOnline service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
AmazonS3 devices monitored by given collector, stop DataInsightAmazonS3 service on collector node. You can do this by using Services.msc on windows.
To disable auditing of HNAS devices monitored by given collector,
Navigate to Settings > Filers.
Select HNAS device associated with given collector and click device name.
Click Edit and locate Event Monitoring setting.
Uncheck Enable File System Event Monitoring box.
Repeat this process for all the HNAS devices.
To disable auditing of all Windows File Server and MSCS Cluster File Server,
To disable auditing of SharePoint webapps,
- Classification
Ensure that no Classification requests are in progress. If any classification request is in progress, do not cancel the request. Wait for the request to complete. As for the Pending requests, you can cancel all of them.
- Self Service Portal
Ensure that no Self Service Portal Workflow requests are in progress. If any Self-Service Portal Workflow request is in progress, do not cancel the request. Wait for the requests to complete.
- Workflow
Ensure that no Workflow requests are in progress. If any Workflow requests is in progress, do not cancel the request. Wait for the requests to complete.
- Reports
Scheduled and Ad hoc reports: Ensure that none of the Information Governance Reports are running or scheduled to run on Indexer nodes or Management Server. If scheduled or ad hoc report generation is in progress, do not cancel it. Wait for the process to complete and then disable all reports.
Dashboard: Ensure that Information Governance Dashboard report execution is disabled or set to Never. If Dashboard report is in progress, do not cancel it. Wait for the process to complete and then disable all reports. To disable Dashboard Summary report,
User Risk
Ensure that UserRiskJob is disabled on all Indexer nodes and Management Server.
If UserRiskJob is in progress, do not cancel it. Wait for the process to complete and then disable the job.
•To disable the job,
oNavigate to Settings -> Information Governance Servers -> Management server node and click Jobs tab.
In the filter, search UserRiskJob
Click Select action and then click Disable.
Repeat this for all Indexer nodes.
Ensure that UserRiskMergeJob is disabled on the Management Server. If UserRiskMergeJob is in progress, do not cancel it. Wait for the process to complete and then disable the job. To disable the job,
Navigate to Settings > Information Governance Servers > Management server node and click Jobs tab.
Connect to Information Governance console, go to Settings > Information Governance Servers.
In the filter, search UserRiskMergeJob
Click Select action and then click Disable.
Migrating Information Governance Indexer
- Identify total number of Indexers to be migrated to a new environment.
- Deploy new Indexer nodes and register them with the Management Server.
- To migrate individual Indexer,
Backlog on Collector: Identify the Collector node associated with this Indexer node and ensure that all the scan and audit files present in Outbox directory on the Collector node are transferred to Indexer node for processing. The default location of the Outbox directory on the Collector node is C:\DataInsight\data\outbox.
Ensure that there is no backlog on the Collector node.
Make sure that scanning and auditing for all the devices being monitored by given Indexer node is disabled.
If there are files to be processed in the C:\DataInsight\data\inbox directory, manually run IndexWriterJob on that Indexer by navigating to Information Governance console > Settings > Information Governance Servers > Indexer node > Jobs > IndexWriterJob > Select action > Run
After processing the backlog files, ensure that there is no active instance of IndexWriterJob or ActivityIndexJob. You can confirm this using Task Manager in Windows
Disable IndexWriterJob on the Indexer node. To disable IndexWriterJob, navigating to Information Governance console > Settings > Information Governance Servers > Indexer node > Jobs > IndexWriterJob > Select action > Disable.
Disable ActivityIndexJob on the Indexer node. To disable ActivityIndexJob, navigating to Information Governance console -> Settings -> Information Governance Servers -> Indexer node -> Jobs -> ActivityIndexJob -> Select action -> Disable.
- To migrate Single indexer, identify the total number of devices being monitored by a given indexer node. To identify total number of devices,
Navigating to Information Governance console > Filers.
Go to By Indexer filter.
Check the box for the Indexer node.
Once you apply the filter, list of devices being monitored by given indexer appears. Follow the steps below to migrate existing indexer to the new indexer:
In the Information Governance Management Console, click Settings > Filers.
Find the desired filer or device and click View under Select Action drop down.
On the Configuration page click Change Indexer.
On the Select Indexer page, click Select under the Action column on the new Indexer and click Yes on the Warning popup.
Click OK.
Check Indexer Migration Status
- Now, Information Governance will start migrating filer to the new selected Indexer node. To check migration progress, click on . View Details
- Migration process might take some time. Depending on the number of shares and the amount of data being transfer from the old Indexer to the new Indexer, migration process time may vary.
- When files are being transferred from the Source Indexer to the Destination Indexer, the process might be considerably slower than expected. This is due to a pause schedule of MsuMigrationJob, which is set at 07:00 by default. If you want to expedite the process, edit the default schedule for the MsuMigrationJob from Daily at 07:00 to run every hour on the Source Indexer. To do that,
In the Information Governance Console, navigate to Settings > Information Governance Servers (source indexer) > Advanced Settings > Set Custom Properties
Add the following values in the given fields:
Property Name =
job.MsuMigrationJob.cron
Property Value =
0 0 0/1 * * ? *
You can confirm the settings in the Jobs list of the source indexer.
The job will now check the migration status each hour and restart the transfer if it stops.
After completing the migration, the New Indexer will appear on the same page.
- Repeat steps for all the devices configured as part of the old indexer node.
Migrating all Devices to a new Collector
- Identify total number of Information Governance Collectors to be migrated to a new environment. To identify total number of collectors,
Navigate to Settings > &ProductName_generic; Servers.
Go to Server type filter and apply Collectors and Indexer & Collector filter.
List of collectors will appear.
- Deploy new Collector nodes by following the &ProductName_generic; Installation guide and register them with the Management Server. Make sure that the new Collector nodes and Management Server are running on the same version.
- Migrate a Single Collector
Pre-requisite:
Full and Incremental Scans are disabled on the Collector node. Please refer to #2 from the Prerequisite section.
Auditing is disabled for all devices being monitored by the Collector node. Please refer #3 from the Prerequisite section.
To migrate every device from existing collector to new collector,
Navigate to &ProductName_generic; Management Console > Settings > Filers.
Find the desired filer or device and click Edit under Select Action drop down.
Click Change Collector.
Select new &ProductName_generic; Collector from the list and click Select.
On the Warning pop-up click Yes.
Once device is moved to new a &ProductName_generic; Collector, you can see the new assignment on the page.
- Repeat Step #4 for all the devices configured as a part of old &ProductName_generic; Collector node. Move every device to a new &ProductName_generic; Collector.
- If you have configured proxy settings for OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Amazon S3, then you need to copy proxy_server.properties stored on the old collector at following locations and paste it on the new collector.
<installDIR>\connectors\amzons3, <installDIR>\connectors\onedrive,
<installDIR>\connectors\sponline to <installDIR>\connectors\amzons3,
<installDIR>\connectors\onedrive, <installDIR>\connectors\sponline
- If you have configured proxy settings for Box, then you need to copy proxy.properties stored on the old collector at following locations and paste it on the new collector. '<DataDIR>\console\cloud' to <DataDIR>\console\cloud
Migrating &ProductName_generic; Management Server
- Deploy new &ProductName_generic; Management Server by referring to &ProductName_generic; Installation guide and make sure that you have configured a new &ProductName_generic; Collector.
- Remote desktop to new &ProductName_generic; Management server and stop all the &ProductName_generic; services on the new &ProductName_generic; Management server.
- Remote desktop to old &ProductName_generic; Management server and stop all the &ProductName_generic; services on the old &ProductName_generic; Management server.
- Copy entire &ProductName_generic; data directory from old &ProductName_generic; Management server and paste it on new Management server. Default data directory location is C:\DataInsight\data.
- Copy existing content stored at …\DataInsight\data directory from old Management server and paste it under new location directory hierarchy under …\DataInsight\data on the new Management server.
- After pasting all the data, remote desktop to new Management server.
- Update the nodename.conf file with new &ProductName_generic; Management server. Default location of this file is C:\DataInsight\data\conf.
- Open the file and remove the FQDN of old &ProductName_generic; Management server present in the nodename.conf with FQDN of the new &ProductName_generic; Management server.
- Save the changes and close the file.
- Update FQDN of new &ProductName_generic; Management server in nodes table of config.db from default location C:\DataInsight\data\conf. Refer to the latest version of "config.db" to update using sqlite3.exe from command prompt given in step 13.
- Launch command prompt on the &ProductName_generic; Management server
- From command prompt, go to bin directory of the &ProductName_generic;. Default location is C:\Program Files\DataInsight\bin.
- Enter below commands to connect to config.db and update the FQDN of new &ProductName_generic; Management server using the update command of sqlite:
- After updating FQDN, start all the &ProductName_generic; services on the new &ProductName_generic; Management Server.
- Once services are up and running, confirm it by navigating to Settings > &ProductName_generic; Servers on &ProductName_generic; Console.
- If the health color of all the &ProductName_generic; servers is Green, you can assume that all &ProductName_generic; servers are properly communicating with &ProductName_generic; Management server.
- Navigating to Settings > Filers on &ProductName_generic; Console.
- If the health color of all devices or filers is Green, you can assume that all devices or filers are properly communicating with their respective &ProductName_generic; Collector and &ProductName_generic; Indexer nodes.
- If you have assigned new IP and FQDN to new Management server, you need to change redirect url mentioned in Azure application. This will help in restoring communication of SharePointOnline and OneDrive cloud devices. In addition to this, you need to change redirect url mentioned in Azure Active Directory application. Default URL to access Azure application is https://portal.azure.com. Execute instruction #19 from this document only if you have configured cloud devices in &ProductName_generic;.
- After this point, you can resume Scanning and Auditing jobs for all the configured devices across all the &ProductName_generic; Collectors.
- Turn on IndexWriterJob across all &ProductName_generic; Indexer nodes by navigating to Settings > &ProductName_generic; Servers.
On this page, click Indexer > Jobs
By using the available filter option, search IndexWriterJob.
Click Select action and click Enable.
Repeat this procedure for all Indexer nodes.
- Turn on ActivityIndexJob across all &ProductName_generic; Indexer nodes by navigating to Settings > &ProductName_generic; Servers.
On this page, click Indexer > Jobs
By using the available filter option, search ActivityIndexJob.
Click Select action and click Enable.
Repeat this procedure for all Indexer nodes.
- Reconfigure schedule of Summary Dashboard report as per your requirement.
Removing the Old &ProductName_generic; Collector and &ProductName_generic; Indexer nodes
- Delete old Collector and Indexer nodes from &ProductName_generic; Console by navigating to Settings > &ProductName_generic; Servers.
- From the list, identify old &ProductName_generic; collector and &ProductName_generic; indexer nodes.
- Select one server at a time, click Select action and click Delete from the list of menu items.