4.1 Viewing Storage Resources

When Active Directory has been enabled, the associated storage resources are available for scanning and reporting.

File Reporter cannot see a Windows network disk drive that is not shared.

  1. Select Configuration > Storage Resources.

    All of the servers in the Active Directory forest are displayed.

  2. Click each button to view options.

    Discovery Options: For large organizations with Active Directory forests spanning multiple geographic areas, rebuilding the storage resources can take many hours. Rather than rebuilding the storage resources, you can select this to create a scope that specifies just those new containers or servers that need added.

    Select whether to specify the servers through a container FDN or server FDN, then click New to enter the paths. Specify the FDN path and click Update. When all of the paths you want to be searched are listed, click OK.

    Schedule: By default, File Reporter rebuilds Active Directory’s storage resources at 12:00 AM each day. Larger sites might want change this setting to weekly or on a specific day of the month. To do so, click this option and modify the settings in the dialog box.

    Rebuild: Clicking this button automatically rebuilds Active Directory’s storage resources.

    Rebuild Only Selected Servers: Use this option to rebuild the selected servers.

    Refresh: Refreshes the resource list.

  3. Click the > for each server to browse the storage resources.