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Veritas Information Map User Guide November 2017 Veritas Information Map User Guide Last updated: 2017-11-21 Legal Notice Copyright © 2017 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Veritas and the Veritas Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Veritas Technologies LLC or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This product may contain third party software for which Veritas is required to provide attribution to the third party (“Third Party Programs”). Some of the Third Party Programs are available under open source or free software licenses. The License Agreement accompanying the Software does not alter any rights or obligations you may have under those open source or free software licenses. 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All support services will be delivered in accordance with your support agreement and the then-current enterprise technical support policies. For information about our support offerings and how to contact Technical Support, visit our website: https://www.veritas.com/support You can manage your Veritas account information at the following URL: https://my.veritas.com If you have questions regarding an existing support agreement, please email the support agreement administration team for your region as follows: Worldwide (except Japan) [email protected] Japan [email protected] Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started ..................................................................... 6 About Veritas Information Map .......................................................... 6 Trial mode restrictions ..................................................................... 8 Logging in to Veritas Information Map ................................................. 9 Chapter 2 The Information Map page ............................................. 10 The Information Map page ............................................................. 10 Header bar ........................................................................... 11 Navigation bar ....................................................................... 13 Top cards .............................................................................. 14 Workspace controls ................................................................ 19 Workspace .................................................................................. 22 Filters ........................................................................................ 23 Chapter 3 Dashboard view ................................................................. 28 Dashboard .................................................................................. 28 Changing the Dashboard layout ................................................ 29 Chart tiles ................................................................................... 30 List tiles ...................................................................................... 31 Ages tile ..................................................................................... 33 Dashboard entities ........................................................................ 34 Chapter 4 Other views ......................................................................... 36 Map view .................................................................................... 36 Item List Preview .......................................................................... 39 List views .................................................................................... 42 Chapter 5 Export .................................................................................... 44 About exporting metadata .............................................................. 44 Starting an export ......................................................................... 45 Viewing and downloading exports .................................................... 49 Export file format .......................................................................... 52 Capturing Map information ............................................................. 54 Contents 5 Chapter 6 Illustrative examples ......................................................... 57 Information Map use cases ............................................................. 57 Identifying non-business information ................................................. 57 Identifying the content sources with most stale data ............................. 58 Finding PST files .......................................................................... 59 Identifying information by owner ...................................................... 60 Chapter 7 Item type descriptions ...................................................... 61 About item types ......................................................................... 62 File Extensions of type 'Audio' ......................................................... 62 File Extensions of type 'Backup' ...................................................... 81 File Extensions of type 'CAD' .......................................................... 88 File Extensions of type 'Compressed+Archive' .................................... 99 File Extensions of type 'Data' ........................................................ 113 File Extensions of type 'Database' .................................................. 186 File Extensions of type 'Developer' ................................................. 192 File Extensions of type 'Document' ................................................. 228 File Extensions of type 'Email' ....................................................... 238 File Extensions of type 'GIS' .......................................................... 240 File Extensions of type 'Game' ....................................................... 245 File Extensions of type 'Images+Graphics' ....................................... 271 File Extensions of type 'Presentation' .............................................. 305 File Extensions of type 'Scientific' ................................................... 306 File Extensions of type 'Security' .................................................... 310 File Extensions of type 'Spreadsheet' .............................................. 315 File Extensions of type 'System' ..................................................... 317 File Extensions of type 'Temporary' ................................................. 354 File Extensions of type 'Video' ....................................................... 364 File Extensions of type 'VirtualMachines' ......................................... 378 Chapter 1 Getting Started This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About Veritas Information Map ■ Trial mode restrictions ■ Logging in to Veritas Information Map About Veritas Information Map Veritas Information Map provides intelligence about the data that resides on your Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and cloud storage repositories across geographical locations. It lets you collect information about the data on your various content sources such as Windows file servers, Linux and UNIX file servers, Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and the Amazon S3 cloud buckets to help you visualize the information that is stored within your organization and on public cloud platforms. Information Map uses the file and folder metadata from the [Veritas] NetBackup catalog stored on the NetBackup master servers. Additionally, Information Map also discovers cloud storage objects (such as Amazon S3) via the Veritas Cloud Agent to help customers visualize data stored within their Amazon S3 cloud accounts. It then processes this information and displays various perspectives