A Data Insight user assigned server administrator role can designate one or more persons as the custodian of a data location. The assigned custodian does not require access to files or folders.

Data Insight uses information about custodians to infer persons responsible for remediation and to determine report recipients. Tagging data repositories with custodians also provides you an explicit point-of-contact for data ownership queries.

A custodian is a user who has a record within Active Directory, NIS, NIS+ or LDAP. A group cannot be assigned as a custodian. The custodian tags are assigned at the parent level and are automatically inherited by all subfolders and files. Custodian tags are only assigned at filer, share, or folder level for CIFS and NFS file systems and Web application, site collection, or folder level for SharePoint. You cannot directly assign a custodian to files. In addition to physical paths, custodians can also be assigned on DFS paths.

Data Insight applies custodian assignment at any level in the following ways:

You must manually remove the custodian assignment from Data Insight. For example, if an assigned custodian's record is deleted from Active Directory, Data Insight does not automatically remove that custodian from the data location to which the custodian is assigned.

See Managing data custodian for paths.

You can automatically assign custodians on various paths and generate a comma-separated values (CSV) file with information about data custodian assignments using the mxcustodian.exe utility. For more details,

As a Data Insight administrator, you can assign custodians to multiple paths at once. For more infomation about assigning custodians in bulk, see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.