Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introduction to Veritas Data Insight administration
- Configuring Data Insight global settings
- About scanning and event monitoring
- About filtering certain accounts, IP addresses, and paths
- About archiving data
- About Data Insight integration with Symantec 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 Data Insight
- Configuring Data Insight product users
- Configuring Data Insight 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 Data Insight
- Configuring containers
- Section III. Configuring native file systems in Data Insight
- Configuring NetApp 7-mode file server monitoring
- Configuring clustered NetApp file server monitoring
- About configuring secure communication between Data Insight 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 Veritas File System (VxFS) file server monitoring
- Configuring monitoring of a generic device
- Managing file servers
- Adding filers
- Adding shares
- Renaming storage devices
- Configuring NetApp 7-mode file server monitoring
- Section IV. Configuring SharePoint data sources
- Configuring monitoring of SharePoint web applications
- About the Data Insight 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
- Managing cloud sources
- Section VI. Configuring Object Storage Sources
- Section VII. Health and monitoring
- Section VIII. Alerts and policies
- Section IX. Remediation
- Configuring remediation settings
- Section X. Reference
- Appendix A. Data Insight best practices
- Appendix B. Migrating Data Insight components
- Appendix C. Backing up and restoring data
- Appendix D. Data Insight health checks
- About Data Insight health checks
- About Data Insight health checks
- Appendix E. Command File Reference
- Appendix F. Data Insight jobs
- Appendix G. Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting FPolicy issues on NetApp devices
About deleting files
Data Insight provides the ability to delete unwanted files from CIFS devices and M365 cloud data sources. Currently, supported M365 cloud data sources are SharePoint Online and OneDrive. You can delete old and inactive files, and the folders holding those files, from the Workspace and Reports tab in the Data Insight Management console.
To configure Delete action for CIFS devices,
- Navigate to Settings > Remediation > Data Management > Delete Files and refer to CIFS Delete Configuration section.
- If you want Delete Files action to be available in Workspace and Reports tab, check the Enable delete files action box.
- Check the Delete Empty Folder box to deletes empty folders.
- In the Devices for action field, enter comma separated device names or patterns. For example 10.209.89.1,10.209.89.2, 10.209.90.*
- In the File count field, add number of files you want to delete in a single delete request.
- You can select either User scan credentials or Select user in the Run As field. If your choice is Select user, make sure the selected user has access to the filer or you can create new user by clicking Add new from the drop-down and providing required details.
- In the Run Delete Action On field, select the option where you want to run delete files, either Management Server or Collector
- Click OK to save.
After configuring delete action, you can View or Edit existing delete action configuration.
Note:
Delete action will run only on the Collector node for M365 data sources. Proxy mode for M365 data sources is also supported.
To configure Delete action for SharePoint Online Account,
- Navigate to Settings > Remediation > Data Management > Delete Files and refer to M365 Sources section.
- Click Configure Delete Action drop-down.
- Select SharePoint Online Account.
- Select SharePoint Online Account URL from the drop-down.
- Enable Delete Files Action checkbox will be checked by default. Uncheck this box if you want to create a delete action configuration but intend keep it disabled. You can check the box later to enable this delete action.
- Check Delete Empty Folder checkbox to delete empty folders.
- If you want to exclude any sites from delete action, click Select Sites.
- Check the box next to the site that you want to exclude and click Save.
- In the File count field, add number of files you want to delete in a single delete request.
- Select the credentials that you want to use from the Client Credentials drop-down. You can add new client credentials by clicking Add new from the drop-down and providing required details and completing authorization. Refer To create and register an application with Microsoft from the following section for more details:
See Registering Data Insight with Microsoft to scan Azure AD.
- Click Re-authorize and complete authorization for selected credentials. Re-authorization is mandatory only for the existing client credentials.
- Click Save to complete the process.
To configure Delete action for Microsoft OneDrive Account,
- Navigate to Settings > Remediation > Data Management > Delete Files and refer to M365 Sources section.
- Click Configure Delete Action drop-down.
- Select Microsoft OneDrive Account.
- Select Microsoft OneDrive Account Name from the drop-down.
- Enable Delete Files Action checkbox will be checked by default. Uncheck this box if you want to create a delete action configuration but intend keep it disabled. You can check the box later to enable this delete action.
- Check Delete Empty Folder checkbox to deletes empty folders.
- In the File count field, add number of files you want to delete in a single delete request.
- Select the credentials that you want to use from the Client Credentials drop-down. You can add new client credentials by clicking Add new from the drop-down and providing required details and completing authorization. Refer To create and register an application with Microsoft from the following section for more details:
See Registering Data Insight with Microsoft to scan Azure AD.
- Click Re-authorize and complete authorization for selected credentials. Re-authorization is mandatory only for existing client credentials.
- Click Save to complete the process.
For M365 data sources, you need following application permissions in addition to the existing permissions:
API | Permission name |
---|---|
Microsoft Graph | Files.ReadWrite.All |
SharePoint | Sites.ReadWrite.All |
After configuring delete action , you can View, Edit, Disable, and Delete existing delete action configuration. You can add up to 5 Client IDs for both devices.
If you edit the existing delete action, you need to re-authorize all application permissions.
For M365 data sources, delete action is not supported for Inactive SubFolders listed under Folder Activity in the Workspace tab.