Enterprise Vault™ Classification using the Veritas Information Classifier

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (14.5)
  1. About this guide
    1. Introducing this guide
      1.  
        Relationship between the Veritas Information Classifier and other classification methods
    2.  
      What's in this guide
    3. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Preparing Enterprise Vault for classification
    1.  
      About the preparatory steps
    2.  
      What you need
    3.  
      Checking the cache location on the Enterprise Vault storage servers
    4.  
      Setting up the Data Access account
    5.  
      Enabling the Veritas Information Classifier on all Enterprise Vault servers
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Information Classifier for secure client connections
  3. Setting up Veritas Information Classifier policies
    1.  
      Introducing Veritas
    2.  
      Opening the Veritas Information Classifier
    3.  
      Finding your way around
    4.  
      Analyzing sample content for policy matches
    5. About policies
      1.  
        Creating policies
      2.  
        About policy conditions
      3.  
        Enabling or disabling policies
      4.  
        Exporting or importing policies
      5.  
        Resetting policies
      6.  
        Deleting policies
    6. About patterns
      1.  
        Creating or editing patterns
      2.  
        Exporting or importing patterns
      3.  
        Deleting patterns
    7. About tags
      1.  
        Creating or editing tags
      2.  
        Exporting or importing tags
      3.  
        About the Enterprise Vault index properties
      4.  
        How classification property values and retention categories interact
      5.  
        Points to note on setting retention categories
      6.  
        Deleting tags
    8. About sentiment analysis
      1.  
        About sentiment conditions
      2.  
        Enforcing sentiment analysis at a site level
  4. Defining and applying Enterprise Vault classification policies
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault classification policies
    2. Defining classification policies
      1.  
        Configuring classification policies to assign retention categories with the shortest duration
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with classification policies
    4.  
      Associating classification policies with retention plans
    5.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with retention plans
    6.  
      Applying retention plans to your Enterprise Vault archives
  5. Running classification in test mode
    1.  
      About classification test mode
    2.  
      Implementing classification test mode
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for running classification in test mode
    4.  
      Understanding the classification test mode reports
  6. Using classification with smart partitions
    1.  
      About smart partitions
    2.  
      How Enterprise Vault determines whether to archive an item to a smart partition
    3.  
      Setting up smart partitions
    4.  
      Verifying that Enterprise Vault has archived items to smart partitions
  7. Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in custom field searches
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault properties
    2.  
      System properties
    3.  
      Attachment properties
    4.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties
    5.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
    6.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
    7.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Compliance Accelerator-processed items
    8.  
      Custom properties for use by policy management software
    9.  
      Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
  8. Appendix B. PowerShell cmdlets for use with classification
    1.  
      About the classification cmdlets
    2.  
      Disable-EVClassification
    3.  
      Get-EVClassificationPolicy
    4.  
      Get-EVClassificationStatus
    5.  
      Get-EVClassificationTestMode
    6.  
      Get-EVClassificationVICTags
    7.  
      Initialize-EVClassificationVIC
    8.  
      Set-EVClassificationVICFIPSMode
    9.  
      New-EVClassificationPolicy
    10.  
      Remove-EVClassificationPolicy
    11.  
      Set-EVClassificationPolicy
    12.  
      Set-EVClassificationTestMode
  9. Appendix C. Classification cache folder
    1.  
      How Enterprise Vault caches the items that it submits for classification
    2.  
      Limits on the size of classification files
    3.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder
  10. Appendix D. Migrating from FCI classification to the Veritas Information Classifier
    1.  
      Converting FCI classification rules for use with the Veritas Information Classifier
  11. Appendix E. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1.  
      Auditing
    2.  
      Checking the classification performance counters
    3.  
      Troubleshooting classification
    4.  
      Searching archives for items that the Veritas Information Classifier has classified
    5.  
      Troubleshooting language detection

Converting FCI classification rules for use with the Veritas Information Classifier

Enterprise Vault 12 provided the means to classify items using the File Classification Infrastructure, which is a classification engine that is built into recent Windows Server editions. This facility is still available in the current version of Enterprise Vault, and you can use it in addition to or instead of the Veritas Information Classifier. However, the greater sophistication of the Veritas Information Classifier, and the effect on performance that can result from running both classification engines simultaneously, are good reasons to transfer your existing classification rules to the Veritas Information Classifier. After you have transferred the rules, you can disable the File Classification Infrastructure engine.

To convert FCI classification rules for use with the Veritas Information Classifier

  1. Prepare a test server for classification using the Veritas Information Classifier. Most importantly, you must run the PowerShell cmdlet Initialize-EVClassificationVIC to enable the Veritas Information Classifier.

    See About the preparatory steps.

    See Initialize-EVClassificationVIC.

  2. In the Veritas Information Classifier, create policies that perform the same function as the FCI classification rules.

    See Creating policies.

  3. Use the test facilities in the Veritas Information Classifier to confirm that each policy works as you expect.
  4. In the Enterprise Vault Administration Console, implement classification test mode on individual archives. This lets you identify any issues with your policies that the test facilities in the Veritas Information Classifier may have missed.

    See About classification test mode.

    Alternatively, you can configure Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder, and then use the PowerShell cmdlet Get-EVClassificationVICTags to see how the Veritas Information Classifier has tagged them.

    See Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder.

    See Get-EVClassificationVICTags.

  5. Prepare your production servers for classification using the Veritas Information Classifier. As before, you must run the PowerShell cmdlet Initialize-EVClassificationVIC to enable the Veritas Information Classifier.

    See About the preparatory steps.

    See Initialize-EVClassificationVIC.

    If the folder in which the Veritas Information Classifier keeps policy information for your production servers is different from the folder that you set for the test server, you must move the contents of the latter folder to the new one.

  6. Disable the File Classification Infrastructure engine on the production servers by running the PowerShell cmdlet Disable-EVClassification as follows:

    Disable-EVClassification -FCI

    See Disable-EVClassification.