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Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Product Overview Configuring the Configuration Manager
Starting the Configuration Manager Finding answers and getting help Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required Using the Credential Manager Setting Up Your First Collection Computers (Nodes) Modifying Your Deployment Configuring Global Settings Customizing the Configuration Manager View
Understanding Discoveries Creating Discoveries
Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name) Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes) Step 2a. Choose scopes for your on-premises discoveries
Choosing your Active Directory Scopes Choosing your Computer Scopes Choosing Your Exchange Scopes Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes Choosing Your Microsoft SQL Scopes Choosing Your NTFS Scopes Choosing Your Registry Scopes
Step 2b: Choose scopes for your cloud discoveries Step 3. Schedule your Discovery Step 4: Review the summary
Managing Discoveries Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets Appendix: Encryption Key Manager Appendix: Log Viewer

NTFS Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices

If you have selected to Collect all available volumes for an NTFS discovery and the targets to be collected contain NAS host devices, you must add the configuration and credentials for each NAS host device.

See also:

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Configuring a NAS Host Device
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File Storage Analysis Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices
To configure a NAS host device
1
Select Collect all available volumes.
An additional question is displayed, “Based on your selected scope, if you are collecting against NAS devices, do you want to use specified NAS Configurations?”
2
Select Yes.
3
Click Configure your global NAS Configuration.
4
Click Add.
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Select an existing device and click Edit.
5
Select the appropriate type of device.
6
Enter the Host IP address.
For FluidFS targets, enter the IP address of the computer where Enterprise Manager is installed.
7
Enter the Host port number.
8
Click the ellipsis (...) to use the Credential Manager to enter and select the credentials required to access this device. For more information, see Using the Credential Manager .
9
Click OK to close the Credential Manager.
10
Click OK to close the NAS Configuration details.
11
Click Close to close the NAS Host Device Manager.
To delete a NAS host device
1
Select Collect all available volumes.
An additional question is displayed, “Based on your selected scope, if you are collecting against NAS devices, do you want to use specified NAS Configurations?”
2
Select Yes.
3
Click Configure your global NAS Configuration.
4
Select an existing device and click Delete.
5
Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
6
Click Close to close the NAS Host Device Manager.

NTFS Discovery: Configure your file collection

You can decide what files, if any, to collect from the folders you targeted. You can use both wildcards and regular expressions to include or exclude groups of files. These are applied to every scope in the discovery. Both explicit and inherited permissions are collected for all files included in the discovery.

To collect all files
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Click Collect files and their basic details like size and attributes.
Include *.* appears in the list.
To use wildcards to include or exclude files
1
Ensure that Using wildcards is selected. If necessary, click to change.
2
Type in the desired pattern using the acceptable wildcards.
Use * to replace any number of characters, and ? to replace a single character.
3
Click Include or Exclude.
Your file pattern appears on the list, replacing *.*.
You can press Enter to add to your list. Enter functions as the last button you clicked—for example, if you have just clicked Include, Enter includes your file pattern.
To use regular expressions to include or exclude files
1
Ensure you Using Regex is selected. If necessary, click to change.
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NOTE: Below the input box for Include/Exclude the option Using wildcards (click to change) or Using regex (click to change) is displayed in light blue. Click this option to change the expression type.
2
Type in the desired expression, using Microsoft® .NET Framework or Perl® 5 syntax.
For more information, search Microsoft.com for Microsoft® .NET Framework regular expressions.
3
Click Include or Exclude.
To remove a file pattern
1
Select the file pattern on the list.
2
Click Remove.
To collect file permission data
1
Select File Options | Collect files and their basic details like size and attributes.
2
Select Permission Options | Collect file permissions.
3
To refine your collection of files, select Only collect and store files which have explicitly granted permissions.
This option may shorten the time your discovery takes to run.
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NOTE: If you select Only collect and store files which have explicitly granted permissions, files that only have inherited permissions are ignored when you run the discovery. These files will not be available to reporting users.
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NOTE: To collect the members of all groups included in the file permissions, make sure If a group is found when collecting permissions, recursively collect group members is selected on the Scopes page.
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NOTE: Only the DACL and Owner permissions are collected.
To collect duplicate file information
1
Select File Options | Collect files and their basic details like size and attributes.
2
Select File Options | Calculate duplicate files within the same computer.
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NOTE: Enabling this option locates duplicate files per computer within a single discovery by performing CRC checks to compare files that have both the same name and the same size. Collecting duplicate file information increases the discovery time.
To collect file details
1
Select File Options | Collect files and their basic details like size and attributes.
1
Select File Options | Collect advanced file metadata such as author and title.

Choosing Your Registry Scopes

Registry scopes determine what information will be collected when you run the discovery. There are several steps you should take to properly design your discovery.

See also:

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Registry Discovery: Include scopes
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Registry Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions
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Registry Discovery: Select your global scopes
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Registry Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer

Registry Discovery: Include scopes

You can specifically add domains, OUs, containers, computers, hives and keys. For full information on using the browser to add scopes, see Using the Browser to Include and Exclude Scopes .

You can create scopes using a dynamic query, which is resolved when the discovery is run. This gives you the flexibility to describe the computers you want to target. For more information, see Using Queries to Define Your Scopes .

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NOTE: Use caution when creating your queries. Ensure that the resulting set of targets is not too large for a single discovery. As well, query results should not include computers included in another discovery of the same type. If a target is in more than one discovery of a particular type, rejected tasks will appear. For more information, see Data Collection Issues .
To explicitly include objects in your Registry scope
1
Click Add.
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If you have a text file containing the computers to be selected, click Import and follow the steps as outlined in Importing Computers to Your Scopes .
2
In the treeview, locate the desired object and select it.
To select multiple objects, press Ctrl during selection.
For more information, see Filtering in the Browser .
- OR -
To include a scope using a subnet, expand the Add to scope menu, select Add Subnet, and click Add. For more information, see Using Subnets to Define Your Scopes .
3
Click Include to add to your selected scopes list.
4
Click OK. 
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NOTE: When you add a domain, its child domains are not included - each domain must be explicitly added. When you add an OU or container, all children are included.
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