Veritas Information Map Installation and Administration Guide

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Product(s): Information Map (1.0)
  1. Introduction to Veritas Information Map
    1.  
      Overview of Information Map
    2.  
      Deployment workflow
    3.  
      Information Map architecture
    4.  
      Creating new user accounts
  2. Planning installation of the Information Map Agent
    1.  
      System requirements
    2.  
      Supported browsers
    3.  
      Connectivity requirements
    4.  
      Security requirements
    5.  
      Generating a KeyStore file
    6.  
      Configuring access to a NetBackup master server
  3. Installing and configuring Information Map
    1.  
      Logging in to Veritas Information Map
    2.  
      Downloading the Agent installer
    3.  
      Configuring locations in Information Map
    4. Installing the Information Map Agent
      1.  
        Configuring proxy settings
    5.  
      Registering the Information Map Agent with Information Fabric
    6. Configuring credentials for share discovery and native scanning
      1.  
        Credentials required to configure share discovery
      2.  
        Configuring a non-administrator domain user on NetApp 7-mode filer
      3.  
        Configuring a non-administrator account on an EMC Isilon file server
    7.  
      Updating the Information Map Agent
  4. Cloud Agent configuration
    1.  
      About configuring the Amazon S3 Agent
    2.  
      Configuring metadata collection in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    3.  
      Configuring Information Map to access Amazon S3 account
  5. Global settings
    1.  
      About configuring global settings
    2.  
      Configuring stale data definition
    3.  
      Configuring non-business data definition
    4.  
      Configuring storage tiers
    5.  
      Assigning storage tiers to storage
    6.  
      Customizing item types
  6. Managing Information Map settings
    1.  
      Configuring Information Map users
    2.  
      Managing Agents
    3.  
      Managing tasks
    4.  
      Managing content sources
  7. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Veritas Information Map logging
    2.  
      Information Map Agent jobs
    3.  
      Information Map Agent issues
    4.  
      Information Map and data accuracy
    5.  
      Known limitations of Information Map Agent

Configuring a non-administrator domain user on NetApp 7-mode filer

The section describes how you can configure a domain user account that you can use to configure a task in Information Map.

To add a task in Information Map, you can use an account which is not in the administrators group on the NetApp filer, but has some specific privileges.

Perform the following steps on the NetApp filer console to add a non-administrator user, for example, testuser.

To create a non-administrator user

  1. Create a new role, for example NBUCollectorRole, using the useradmin utility on the filer.
  2. Add the login-* and API-* capabilities to the role.

    For example, useradmin role add IMAgentRole -a login-*,api-*.

    You can also choose to assign specific capabilities to the role.

    Table: Additional capabilities for adding a non-administrator user account provides a detailed description of each capability.

  3. Create a new group, for example, testgroup and apply the role testrole to it.

    For example, useradmin group add testgroup -r testrole.

  4. Add the user testdomain\testuser to testgroup

    For example, useradmin domainuser add testdomain\testuser -g testgroup.

  5. Add the user testdomain\testuser to Backup Operators group.

    For example, useradmin domainuser add testdomain\testuser -g Backup Operators.

    Note:

    For vfilers, append the above command-line examples with vfiler run <vfilername>.

Table: Additional capabilities for adding a non-administrator user account

Capability

Description

login-http-admin

Enables the non-administrator user to log into the NetApp filer and run commands. With this capability, you can get latency statistics (for scan throttling), volume size information, or discover shares. 

api-system-get-ontapi-version
api-system-get-version

Enables you to get the ONTAPI version number and the system version number respectively. These are required to set the login handle context properly. Information Map reports a failure when you test the connection to the filer, if these capabilities are absent. Also, if these capabilities are absent, you cannot execute any APIs including those required to discover shares, and get latency statistics.

api-cifs-share-list-iter-start

api-cifs-share-list-iter-next
api-cifs-share-list-iter-end

Used to discover shares on the NetApp filer. Absence of these capabilities can result in a failure to discover the shares.

api-volume-list-info

Used to periodically fetch size information for NetApp volumes. 

api-nfs-exportnfs-list-rules
api-nfs-exportnfs-list-rules-2

Used to discover all NFS shares that are exported from the NetApp filer. If this capability is absent, these NFS shares are not discovered.

api-system-get-info

Used to discover the NetApp system serial number. The information is used by external reporting tools to report about the NetApp filers that Information Map monitors.