Enterprise Vault™ Classification using the Veritas Information Classifier

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.5)
  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 the Veritas Information Classifier
    2.  
      Opening the Veritas Information Classifier
    3.  
      Finding your way around
    4.  
      Analyzing sample content for policy matches
    5. About policies
      1.  
        Creating or editing 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
  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.  
      New-EVClassificationPolicy
    9.  
      Remove-EVClassificationPolicy
    10.  
      Set-EVClassificationPolicy
    11.  
      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

About classification test mode

By running classification in test mode, you can identify and resolve any issues with your Veritas Information Classifier policies before you put them into effect. Classification does still occur in test mode, but in the following ways:

  • When Enterprise Vault indexes items, it does so without applying the classification properties, their values, and any resulting retention changes to the archived items. However, the classification information is stored, and you can review it in a test mode report.

  • When a user manually deletes an archived item, or Enterprise Vault automatically deletes an item whose retention period has expired, the item is deleted as normal. However, the test mode report indicates whether the action would have been blocked as the result of classification. For example, this might be the case if classification were to apply a retention category that extends the item's retention period or blocks manual deletion or automatic expiry.

The test mode report may help you to identify any Veritas Information Classifier policies that do not work as you expect. Where this is the case, you can amend the policies and rerun the tests until you are satisfied with the outcome.