The Collector (Audit Pre-processor) is a Data Insight process that enables you to collect and parse access events from various storage repositories. The Collector examines the access events available on these storage systems to parse the events that report the read, write, create, delete, and rename activity on files or folders. The access events are processed in batches that consist of several thousand events. Each batch of events that are collected in a cycle is stored in a separate file with appropriate timestamp that indicates the ending time of the last entry in that batch. This data is pruned based on exclude rules or events that are not from the configured shares or site collections, and is then segregated on a per-share basis. These files are periodically shipped to the appropriate Indexer node.

Data Insight collects information about access events from various storage repositories through exposed vendor APIs.

For detailed instructions on enabling audit service, see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.