Viewing file and folder activity

The Folder Activity / File Activity tab displays activity on the selected file or folder by time. For a folder, it also shows sub-folder activity statistics and a list of subfolders which have not been accessed at all during a specified period.

To view activity on a file or folder

  1. From the Workspace navigate to the Data Sources list-view.
  2. Expand a filer or Web application to display a list of configured shares or site collection.
  3. Expand a share or site collection to view the folders, sites, document libraries, or picture libraries present within the share or the site collection.
  4. Click a folder. The Summary panel populates to display additional details.
  5. Click Expand Profile on the Summary panel to display the underlying folder-centric views.

    By default, the Overview tab displays the a summary of the selected data repository.

  6. Click File Activity or Folder Activity .
  7. Data Insight displays the activity details for each of the following criteria:
    • By Time - Click this sub-tab to view the number of Read, Write and Other accesses on the selected file or folder for a specified time period. You can also view a graphical representation of the access counts during each month in a specified time range.

    • By Subfolders and Files - Click this sub-tab to view the Read, Write, and Other accesses as well as the total number of accesses, during a specified time on the sub-folders and files contained in the selected folder. The total access count includes the accesses on the current folder. This sub-tab is available only for folders.

    • Inactive Subfolders - Click this sub-tab to view the details of the sub-folders contained in the selected folder that have not been accessed during a specified time period.

      You can use Enterprise Vault to archive the folders listed on the Inactive Subfolders tab directly from the Data Insight Management Console. This sub-tab is available only for folders.

      See Managing inactive data from the Folder Activity tab.

  8. You can also write scripts to define actions to manage the inactive folders listed on the sub-tab. Click the Actions icon at the bottom of the tree-view pane, and select the appropriate script to apply the custom action on the folders listed on the Inactive Subfolders sub-tab.

    For more information about using custom scripts to manage inactive data, see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.

  9. Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data to a .csv file.