Filesystem

Introduction

Connect your filesystem source to Aiimi Insight Engine to make the most of the data on your machines. Once you have selected a Source System type more detail will expand to customise this. Source System Settings

General

1. You need to enter a starting point for the crawl within File System Root. This should be a path rooted on locally mounted drive or a UNC path.

2. Discovery and Content agents use an alternative path within Service Root. This allows SAN/NAS/NFS backup partitions to be crawled but still display the address.

3. If left empty the File SystemRoot will be used.

4. Select a username from the Select Credential dropdown. This will allow you to connect to the network share. If left black the share will not be mounted.

5. A free drive letter will be used to mount the drive if credentials are added.

6. If the network share password changes a system restart is needed on the Network Share system. This ensures all new configurations are persistent.

7. You can choose to crawl specific folders within a filesystems root. Enter any folder names into the Root Folders field.

8. If left blank all folders in the root will be crawled.

Permissions Lookup

1. If the hosting agent servers are not members of or trusted by the domain uncheck "Use direct domain lookup for security identifiers." For all other servers this should remain checked.

2. You can adjust the number of permission threads that are run along side the indexes. By default we recommend 4.

Crawl Options

• Is the file system case sensitive - Check this if your filesystem is case sensitive.

• Folder only crawl - Check to only crawl folders within the source.

• Run permissionless file scan - File system permissions are retrieved after the initial crawl. This will speed up a crawl. The System permission will be crawled when attributes have changed.

• Enable FileSystem watcher - Check to enable a smart Crawl. Achieve an optimal crawl time by driving crawls directly from changes to target.

• This is dependent on your file system, network and if it is supported and enabled.

• The performance of a large NAS/SAN systems may be impacted if enabled.

Retrieval Options

• Preserve last access date - Where possible, the last access date when they are accessed by system functions will be kept. The service account must have sufficient permissions to update file attributes.

  • This may not be possible with all file systems and they may not allow this.

  • You must also set the enable the content retrieval, preserve last access date for this to function.

Local Database

1. To enable a local database check used local database.

2. Enter the location within local database location. This location must not be used by another local database.

Folder Permissions

1. Check Store Folder Permissions to store NTFS ACLs. This will store them for each folder in the Elastic index. This is used for ACL monitoring solutions and increases the Elastic document size.

2. You can determine what groups are considered as open access for Folder Permission metrics. Enter a group into Folder Permission metrics: Open Access Groups.

3. Gather metrics on folders as they are crawled. It will gather if the folder is open access, has direct user permission or if the owner has left the business.

4. This will slow down the crawl.

5. You can ignore certain system accounts from folder permission metrics. Enter them into Folder Permission Metrics: System Accounts.