The Scanner is a Data Insight process that scans enterprise data repositories by mounting CIFS and NFS network shares or accessing SharePoint servers using the Data Insight web service. The Scanner captures the file or folder hierarchy of a share or site collection and helps you collect in-depth information about files and folders.

Note that the Scanner is a scheduled process. Schedule of the scan can be controlled at the worker node level, filer/web application level, or the share/site collection level. For detailed information on administration topics (including how to schedule scanning) see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.

Depending on how the scans are scheduled, the Scanner stores the collected data in separate database files, with appropriate timestamp. For each subsequent scan, the Scanner only scans the files that are added or modified since the last full scan. These files are eventually uploaded to the Indexer node using the Communication Service.

See About the Indexer worker node.

The Scanner captures information about the following attributes for each file or directory:

The details the Scanner captures helps in the computation of metadata-based data ownership.