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Change the scan settings for your repositories
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You can manage how your data is being scanned in each of your working environments and data sources. You can make the changes on a "repository" basis; meaning you can make changes for each volume, bucket, share, schema, user, etc. depending on the type of data source you are scanning.
Some of the things you can change are whether a repository is scanned or not, and whether BlueXP classification is performing a mapping scan or a mapping & classification scan. You can also pause and resume scanning, for example, if you need to stop scanning a volume for a period of time.
View the scan status for your repositories
You can view the individual repositories that BlueXP classification is scanning (volumes, buckets, etc.) for each working environment and data source. Additionally, you can see how many have been "Mapped", and how many have been "Classified". Classification takes a longer time as the full AI identification is being performed on all data.
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From the Configuration tab, click the Configuration button for the working environment.
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In the Scan Configuration page you can view the scan settings for all repositories.
You can hover your cursor over the chart in the Mapping Status column to see the number of files that remain to be mapped or classified in each repository (bucket in this example).
Change the type of scanning for a repository
You can start or stop mapping-only scans, or mapping and classification scans, in a working environment at any time from the Configuration page. You can also change from mapping-only scans to mapping and classification scans, and vice-versa.
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Databases can't be set to mapping-only scans. Database scanning can be Off or On; where On is equivalent to Map & Classify. |
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From the Configuration tab, click the Configuration button for the working environment.
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In the Scan Configuration page you can change any of the repositories (buckets in this example) to perform Map or Map & Classify scans.
Certain types of working environments enable you to change the type of scanning globally for all repositories using a button bar at the top of the page. This is valid for Cloud Volumes ONTAP, on-premises ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files, and Amazon FSx for ONTAP systems.
The example below shows this button bar for an Azure NetApp Files system.
Stop scanning for a repository
You can stop scanning a repository (for example, a volume) if you no longer need to monitor it for compliance. You do this by turning scanning "off". When scanning is turned off, all the indexing and information about that volume is removed from the system, and charging for scanning the data is stopped.
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From the Configuration tab, click the Configuration button for the working environment.
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In the Scan Configuration page select Off to stop scanning for a particular bucket.
Pause and resume scanning for a repository
You can "pause" scanning on a repository if you want to temporarily stop scanning certain content. Pausing scanning means that BlueXP classification won't perform any future scans for changes or additions to the repository, but that all the current results will still be displayed in the system. Pausing scanning does not stop charging for the scanned the data because the data still exists.
You can "resume" scanning at any time.
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From the Configuration tab, click the Configuration button for the working environment.
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In the Scan Configuration page, click the Pause button to pause scanning for a volume, or press the Resume button to resume scanning for a volume that had been previously paused.
Note that some data sources provide the Pause and Resume functionality in a menu, as shown below for SharePoint sites.
Rescan data for an existing repository
BlueXP classification continuously scans your data to detect incremental changes in the repositories that you've added. However, it takes time for the system to scan all the environments, and there is no method to control the order of the repositories that are scanned. If you need to rescan a particular repository immediately so that changes are reflected in the system, you can select the repository and rescan it. This allows you to prioritize scanning of certain data before other data. After the rescan action, the selected repository returns to being scanned under the normal BlueXP classification schedule.
BlueXP classification supports scanning directories on all data source types except for Amazon S3 and Databases. Currently we support rescanning a single directory (folder or share) or multiple directories. Future support will include rescanning additional repository types (files, databases, etc.).
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When rescanning a directory, all the files within the directory are rescanned, but sub-folders within the directory are not rescanned.
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When rescanning a share, only the share's metadata is rescanned.
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A maximum of 1K items can be rescanned at a time.
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In the Data Investigation results pane, select the folders or shares that you want to rescan, and click Rescan.
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In the Rescan Directory dialog, click Rescan.
Note that you can also rescan an individual directory when viewing the metadata details. Just click Rescan.
