Veritas Data Insight Installation Guide

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Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)
  1. Understanding the Veritas Data Insight architecture
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      About the Management Server
    3. About the Collector worker node
      1.  
        About the Collector
      2.  
        About the Scanner
    4.  
      About the Indexer worker node
    5.  
      About the Classification Server
    6.  
      About the Self-Service Portal node
    7.  
      About Communication Service
    8.  
      About the DataInsightWatchdog service
    9.  
      About the DataInsightWorkflow service
    10. About Veritas Data Insight installation tiers
      1.  
        About three-tier installation
      2.  
        About two-tier installation
      3.  
        About single-tier installation
  2. Preinstallation
    1.  
      Preinstallation steps
    2.  
      Operating system requirements
    3. System requirements for Veritas Data Insight components
      1.  
        System requirements for classification components
    4.  
      Supported data sources and platforms
    5.  
      Supported browsers
    6.  
      List of ports
    7.  
      Web server version
  3. Installing Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      About installing Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      Performing a single-tier installation
    3.  
      Performing a two-tier installation
    4.  
      Performing a three-tier installation
    5.  
      Installing the Management Server
    6.  
      Installing the worker node
    7.  
      Installing the Classification Server
    8.  
      Installing the Self-Service Portal
    9.  
      Installing a Linux Indexer worker node
  4. Upgrading Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Upgrading Data Insight to 6.1.5
    2.  
      Upgrading the product data using the Upgrade Data Wizard
    3.  
      Names and locations of cache files
    4.  
      Upgrading the Data Insight web service for SharePoint
  5. Post-installation configuration
    1.  
      Post-installation configuration
    2.  
      Registering the worker node
    3. About post-installation security configuration for Management Server
      1.  
        About SSL client/server certificates
      2.  
        Generating Management Console certificate
    4.  
      Configuring your corporate firewall
  6. Installing Windows File Server agent
    1.  
      About Windows File Server agent
    2.  
      Installing Windows File Server agent manually
    3.  
      Configuring the Windows File Server using ConfigureWindowsFileServer.exe
  7. Getting started with Data Insight
    1.  
      About the Data Insight Management Console
    2.  
      Logging in to the Data Insight Management Console
    3.  
      Logging out of the Data Insight Management Console
    4.  
      Displaying online help
  8. Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
  9. Appendix A. Installing Data Insight using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Installing Data Insight using response files
    3.  
      Sample response files
  10.  
    Index

About the Collector worker node

The Collector worker node is a host machine that scans data source hierarchies in your environment and collects access events from data sources such as NAS devices, SharePoint Web Applications, and cloud sources. Data Insight uses this information to perform advanced reporting on the business owners of data and the access history of data. By scanning for file metadata and security descriptors, it reports on the loopholes of permissions on files and folders. The details that are captured by the Collector node also help you find stale and orphan files in the scanned data repositories.

You can have multiple Collector worker nodes attached to the Management Server for load balancing. You can configure each collector node to connect to a subset of storage devices to extract file system metadata and extract access events from these devices. Each data source can have exactly one Collector node associated with it.

Note:

Veritas recommends that the Collector worker nodes share a fast network with the storage devices.

A Collector worker node consists of the following components:

  • Collector

  • Scanner