Subclients - Compliance Archiver Agents

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Overview

Subclient Content

Configurable Properties

Things to Consider when Creating and Configuring Compliance Archiver Subclients

Overview

The following table shows subclient creation and configuration details specific to the Exchange Compliance Archiver Agent.

Subclient Content

The Exchange Compliance Archiver Agent is designed to archive all incoming and outgoing messages and attachments in each Mailbox Store on an Exchange Server. Subclient content for this agent typically consists of Journal Mailboxes, but may include non-journaling mailboxes during the initial load of content. After installing this agent, a user-defined subclient must be manually created and content defined. There are two scenarios for initially defining the subclient content for this agent:

• If you are only interested in capturing messages going forward in time after the agent has been installed and journaling set up, then it is a simple matter to discover the Journal Mailboxes and add them as subclient content. For step-by-step instructions, see Discover and Assign New Journal Mailboxes.
• If you need to initially populate the subclient content with messages that were sent and/or delivered before archives of the journal began, you must archive the non-journaling mailboxes on the server. To do this, create the FindAllMailboxes registry key in the computer on which the Exchange Compliance Archiver is installed. Once this key has been created, you will be able to discover all mailboxes and add them as subclient content to be archived. Be sure that the Delete Archived messages after successful archive operations option is not selected when configuring subclient content for this operation. Otherwise, all of the messages that are archived will be deleted from the mailboxes. This option should only be selected when archiving Journal Mailboxes. Archives of the existing messages and mailboxes (those created prior to implementing the message journal mailbox) need only be done once, after which time new messages will be captured by and archived through the Journal Mailbox.

Once content has been added to the user-defined subclient, the subclient content for this agent is displayed similar to the following example:

Note that in the above example there are three Journal Mailboxes specified as subclient content, each one associated to a corresponding Mailbox Store on the Exchange Server. Since there are only three Journal Mailboxes to be archived, there may be no need to distribute them across different user-defined subclients. However, in cases where there is a high-volume of messages being sent, or when there are many Mailbox Stores that require numerous Journal Mailboxes then it may be necessary to create additional user-defined subclients to further divide the content.

Since there is a one-to-one correspondence between each Mailbox Store and a Journal Mailbox, you can divide content for this agent so that each subclient contains its own Journal Mailbox. In the example below, the three Journal Mailboxes are assigned to different subclients:

• User-defined subclient: Journal-MB01
  Content:

  Journal MB01

  exchJournalMB01

  exchJournalMB01@exch.company.com

• User-defined subclient: Journal-MB02
  Content:

  Journal MB02

  exchJournalMB02

  exchJournalMB02@exch.company.com

• User-defined subclient: Journal-MB03
  Content:

  Journal MB03

  exchJournalMB03

  exchJournalMB03@exch.company.com

Dividing the client data using subclients in this way can help you better manage compliance archiving operations by distributing the workload on the Exchange Server into logical groupings.

Filtering

Subclient-level Archive Filters and CommCell-level Global Filters are available for this agent to exclude specified mailbox folders, or folder patterns (using wildcards), from being archived. For example, you can filter out the Junk E-mail and Spam folders during an initial load of non-journaling mailbox content so that messages within those folders do not get archived. Subclient-level Archive Filters provide exclusion capabilities on a per-subclient basis, whereas Global Filters allow you to filter out data from data protection operations on all agents of a certain type within a CommCell. For more information, see Filters.

Wildcards and Regular Expressions

Wildcards and regular expressions are supported by this agent in the following functions:

Subclient Filters/Global Filters

Wildcards can be used in the Exclude the folders that contain the following patterns field when filtering data using Subclient-level Archive Filters and/or CommCell-level Global Filters.

For a list of wildcards supported by this agent, see Wildcards.

Considerations

For more information, see Things to Consider when Creating and Configuring Compliance Archiver Subclients.

Configurable Properties

Once installed, the agent is configured and is therefore able to manage the data or volumes on the client computer. However, you can change certain aspects of the subclient configuration to manage the data in the manner that best suits your needs.

You can view or change the subclient configuration from the Subclient Properties dialog box. The following information can be configured.

Activity Control

You can enable or disable all operations for this CommCell object and all objects below it. For more information, see Activity Control.

Content/Databases

You can define the content of the subclient. Most agents include a configure button that displays a dialog where you can add or modify the data included as subclient content. For step-by-step instructions, see Configure Subclient Content.

For more information, see Subclient Content.

Create a New Index for Archive Operations

You can specify the interval for index creation for archive operations on this subclient. Note that this setting can be overridden by selecting the Create New Index option on the Advanced Backup/Archive Options (Data) tab. If overridden, the new index interval counter will start again at zero.

Data Transfer Options

Several configurable options to efficiently use available resources for transferring data secured by data protection operations are provided in the subclient. This includes the following:

• Enable or disable Data Compression either on the client or the MediaAgent.
• Configure the transfer of data in the network using the options for Network Bandwidth Throttling and Network Agents.

Data Encryption

You can enable or disable the encryption of data for transmission over unsecure networks and for storage on media. For more information, see Data Encryption.

Data Paths

You can view the data paths associated with the primary storage policy copy of the selected storage policy or incremental storage policy. You can also modify the data paths for the subclient including their priority. For additional information, see Configuring Alternate Data Paths for Subclients.

Data Protection Filters

You can perform the following functions:

• Define data protection filters to exclude specified subclient data from being backed up or archived. For more information, see Filters.
• Use regular expressions (or wildcards) in subclient data protection filters. See Inclusions, Exclusions, and Exceptions to Exclusions for more information.

Global Filters

You can enable or disable Global Filters. For more information, see Global Filters.

Pre/Post Processes

You can add, modify or view Pre/Post processes for the subclient. These are batch files or shell scripts that you can run before or after certain job phases. For more information, see Pre/Post Processes.

Storage Policies

You can associate the subclient to a storage policy. For more information, see Storage Policies.

Subclient Name

You can rename a user-defined subclient.

User Accounts

You can define an account with permissions to execute Pre/Post commands for the agent's archive, backup, or volume creation jobs.

See the Exchange Agents: Other User Accounts section in User Accounts and Passwords for more information.

User Security

You can perform the following functions:

• Identify the user groups to which this CommCell object is associated.
• Associate this object with a user group.
• Disassociate this object from a user group.

For more information, see User Administration and Security.

Things to Consider when Creating and Configuring Compliance Archiver Subclients

• In order to archive the Exchange Message Journal, the journal must be set up as a Mailbox.
• Since the Exchange Compliance Archiver Agent does not support default subclients, you will have to create a user-defined subclient after installing the agent in order to perform compliance archiving operations. During subclient creation, you will specify which Exchange Journal Mailboxes will be archived by the subclient.
• If you have enabled discovery of all mailboxes, non-journal mailboxes will be selectable for archiving.
• DataArchiver does not support archiving journals that have been set up as public folders.

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