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Symantec Enterprise Vault 11.x for File System Archiving: Administration

  • Course Code DP0138
  • Duration 5 days

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Course Overview

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The Symantec Enterprise Vault 11.x for File System Archiving: Administration course is designed primarily for system administrators responsible for, operating, integrating, and monitoring the day‐to‐day performance of Enterprise Vault within their File System Archiving environments. This course covers how to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Enterprise Vault from the File System Archiving perspective. The course helps you better understand the product’s functionality, features, and operations.

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Target Audience

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This course is for Symantec customers, consultants, partners, technical support engineers, system engineers, sales engineers, file server experts, and anyone who is charged with the, configuration and day‐to‐day management of Enterprise Vault in a File System Archiving environment.

Course Objectives

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By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the purpose, functionality, and architecture of Enterprise Vault 11.x for File System Archiving
  • Configure Roles‐based administration (RBA) and permissions for FSA administration
  • Use FSA Reporting
  • Configure and manage Targets and Archive Points
  • Review and configure FSA Policies and Rules
  • Configure and monitor Archiving Tasks and manage client access
  • Configure content management options including:                                                                                                                         o Retention Folder Policies
             o File Blocking  
             o Pass‐through recall  
             o Deletion handling
  • Perform file server maintenance using FSAUtility
  • Troubleshoot File System Archiving issues

                  

Course Content

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Lesson 1: Enterprise Vault FSA Overview

  • How File System Archiving works  
  • FSA concepts and terminology

Lesson 2: Assessing an Enterprise Vault FSA Environment

  • Configuring and managing FSA roles
  • Assessing FSA targets
  • Assessing FSA Policies and Rules
  • Reviewing FSA Tasks

Lesson 3: FSA Reporting 

  • Installing and configuring FSA Reporting
  • Running and accessing FSA reports
  • FSA and Data Insight overview

Lesson 4: Managing Archiving from Windows File Servers

  • Adding and configuring a File Server Target
  • Configuring Archive Points

Lesson 5: Managing Policies and Rules

  • Policies overview
  • Managing Volume Policies
  • Managing Folder Policies
  • Managing Policy > Archiving Rules

Lesson 6: Archiving and Accessing Content from File Servers 

  • Archiving content  
  • Accessing archived content

Lesson 7: Managing Content on Target Systems

  • Content control features overview
  • Managing Retention Folder Policies
  • Controlling file storage
  • Managing pass‐through recall
  • Determining archived file deletion

Lesson 8: Performing File Server Maintenance

  • FSAUtility overview
  • Using FSAUtility with:                                                                                                                                                               o Archive Points
    o Placeholders
    o Archived files
  • Backing up and restoring Placeholders

Lesson 9: Troubleshooting FSA

  • FSA troubleshooting procedures and tools
  • Common issues with File System Archiving

Lesson 10: FSA Implementations

  • Configuring FSA in a clustered environment
  • Designing an Enterprise Vault FSA environment

Appendix: Optional lessons

Lesson 11: Managing Archiving from non‐Windows File Servers – NetApp

  • Introduction to archiving from NetApp filers  
  • Configuring File System Archiving for a NetApp filer
  • FSA NetApp Cluster‐Mode support

Lesson 12: Managing Archiving from non‐Windows File Servers – EMC Celerra/VNX 

  • Introduction to archiving from EMC Celerra/VNX
  • Configuring File System Archiving for an EMC Celerra/VNX file server

Lesson 13: Backing up the FSA environment 

  • Enterprise Vault components to back up  
  • Using Backup Mode
  • Backup options and strategies
  • Configuring Collection and migration

 

Course Prerequisites

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The Symantec Enterprise Vault 11.x for Exchange: Administration course or equivalent experience is required. You must have a working knowledge of Windows with some system administration experience. Basic familiarity with SQL Server and Windows Active Directory is sufficient, while an understanding of NetApp filer, EMC Celerra/VNX server, and Symantec Backup Exec is an added advantage.