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Configure Retention Criteria for the Content Index

Start Content Indexing Services

Stop Content Indexing Services

Select/Prevent Content Indexing for a Job on a Storage Policy

Delete Content Indexes for a Job on a Storage Policy

Configure Retention Criteria for the Content Index

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure retention criteria for the Content Index:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy for which you want to configure the retention criteria for the content index, and then click Properties.
  2. From the Storage Policy Properties (Content Indexing) tab, click Retention.
  3. If you want the content index to be pruned along with the data, select the Retain the index as per data retention rule option. Note that, this option is selected by default.
  4. If you want to prune the content index before the data retention time , select Retain for n Days and specify the number of days the content index should be retained. Note that, the number of days should be lesser than the retention days for the content indexed data.
  5. If you want to prune the content index based on pending content director policy operations, select Retain for Record Policy Use.
  6. Click OK to save the configuration.

Start Content Indexing Services

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To start the Content Indexing Services:

  1. From Start | Programs menu, point to Content Indexing Engine and select Content Indexing Engine - Start.

Stop Content Indexing Services

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To stop the Content Indexing Services:

  1. From Start | Programs menu, point to Content Indexing Engine and select Content Indexing Engine - Stop.

Select/Prevent Content Indexing for a Job on a Storage Policy

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable/disable content indexing for a job on a storage policy:

  1. From the left pane of the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy whose jobs you want to view, select View and then click Job
  2. Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy dialog box. Click OK.
  3. A list of jobs associated with the storage policy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy window.
  4. Right-click the job for which you need to enable/disable content indexing, and select any of the following options:

    Pick for Content Indexing - to select the job for content indexing

    Prevent Content Index - to prevent the job from being content indexed.

    Re-Pick Content Indexing - to re-select the job (that was already content indexed) for content indexing

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    In order to re-pick multiple jobs, you need to first delete the content index of the selected jobs and then pick the jobs for content indexing.

    Similarly, if you want to re-pick a partially content indexed job (with content index status partial) for content indexing, you need to first prevent content indexing for the job and then pick the job for content indexing.
  5. Click Close.

Delete Content Indexes for a Job on a Storage Policy

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable/disable content indexing for a job on a storage policy:

  1. From the left pane of the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy whose jobs you want to view, select View and then click Job
  2. Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy dialog box. Click OK.
  3. A list of jobs associated with the storage policy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy window.
  4. Right-click the job for which you need to delete the content indexes, and select Delete Content Index.
  5. Click Close.

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