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To understand the collaboration of users on a share, Data Insight provides a collaboration graph that helps you visualize how a set of users and individual users are collaborating on a share. Data Insight identifies a share as collaborative, if a significant number of users access or change the same or different files directly under a folder within a given time period. For example, if User A creates, reads, modifies, and renames abc.txt under \\g\s\a\b\foo and User B modifies xyz.txt under \\g\s\a\b\foo, then User A and User B are said to be collaborating. Share \\g\s is considered as a collaborative share.
The time period for analyzing collaborative activity on a share is configured on the Settings > Advanced Analytics page. For more information, see Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.
The Social Network Map graph provides you with a global picture of collaborative behavior among users based on their activity on the selected share. It also helps you visualize the various organizational units that may be collaborating on a share. It enables you to identify users who are working closely together or users who stand out because their activity patten is less collaborative as compared to users who are actively collaborating among themselves. Collaborating users are grouped together in clusters and connecting lines are used to show collaboration between the users. Users that are connected with a dense network of lines indicate a high level of collaboration between them. While the users that are loosely connected show low or weak collaboration.
The Social Network Map groups users in clusters based on their collaboration and each cluster has a different color-code. The users in a cluster are classified on the basis of certain attributes. For more information about configuring user attributes, see the Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide.
You can use the Social Network Map tool to visualize collaboration per share, and not across your entire storage environment.
You can use the Social Network Map to do the following:
Analyze the activity pattern among users and groups and identify the level of collaboration on a share.
Identify the pattern of collaboration between different cluster groups.
Collaborative activity on a share.
Identify weakly-connected users who are not collaborating within a folder, but have activity on the share.
Visualize the various organizational units that may be collaborating on a share.
Identify and analyze outlier users based on organizational units and other attributes.
Export the graph along with information about user attributes and degree of collaboration to an output file.