Modifying Hidden Symantec Enterprise Vault Source Parameters

The Add Source and Source: ... General pages of the Administration Tool present the parameters with which you can configure the connector for most setups. More advanced and more rarely used parameters are hidden.

You can choose to make one or more of these parameters appear in the Add Source and Source: ... General pages of the Administration Tool so that you can change their default value. Consider changing values of hidden parameters only when you encounter time out error messages or performance issues.

The available advanced hidden parameters for Symantec Enterprise Vault (SEV) sources are presented in the following list with the parameter type (integer, string…) appearing between parentheses following the parameter name.

IgnoreArchiveSecurities (Boolean)

Set this option to True to ignore the security parameters found on the archive and only use the item permissions. The default value is False.

LowerBoundDate (String)

This parameter defines the lowest modification date of items that will be indexed. Modifying this parameter requires a source refresh.

Example: When you need to index a SEV that contains a large amount of data over several years, crawling the whole content may take days or even weeks. You can use the LowerBoundDate and UpperBoundDate parameters to create sources for specific periods and start indexing the sources for the most recent periods first.

UpperBoundDate (String)

This parameter defines the highest modification date of items that will be indexed. Modifying this parameter requires a source refresh.

LDAPSearchRoot (String)

Specifies to the connector where to start looking in Active Directory. When this parameter is not specified, the connector looks at the root of Active Directory, which can be extremely large. By specifying a value, you can refine the search.

Example: To search only within the organizational unit (OU) companynameOU within the domain corp.companyname.com, enter:
LDAP://OU=companynameOU, DC=corp, DC=companyname, DC=com

LDAPFilters (String)

Filter applied to the search of Active Directory in order to find mailboxes. Allows adding properties to the results the connector is looking for. The default filter is: (&(mail=*)(objectclass=user)(objectclass=person)).

This AND operation is performed on a few properties to find the maximum number of mailboxes without receiving any unwanted ones. If this filter is not specific enough, you can complete the filter by adding a value to the AND operation on the filter.

Example: When you enter the value cn=JohnSmith in the parameter, the resulting filter is: (&(mail=*)(objectclass=user)(objectclass=person)(cn=JohnSmith))

EnforceADSecurities (Boolean)

When set to True, all archived mailboxes that do not have Active Directory (AD) permissions are rejected and not crawled. When set to False, a warning appears in the log about the lack of permissions. The default value is False.

MaxNumberOfRetries (Integer)

The number of attempts to make when performing an action on SEV. The default value is 3.

RetryDelay (Integer)

The amount of time to wait between SEV action retry attempts, in seconds. The default value is 30.

TimeOut (Integer)

The amount of time given to perform a request to Active Directory, in seconds. For file downloads, it is the amount of time with no progress before aborting the operation. The default value is 30.

BatchSize (Integer)

The number of documents IDs to pre-fetch per request before downloading them. The default value is 100.

Use the following procedure only when you want to modify the above hidden source parameters.

To modify hidden source parameters

1. Refer to Adding an Explicit Connector Parameter to add an hidden source parameter.

2. For a new source, access the Add Source page of the Administration Tool to modify the value of the newly added advanced parameter:

   1. Select Index > Sources and Collections.

   2. Under Collections, select the collection in which you want to add the source.

   3. Under Sources, click Add.

   4. In the Add Source page, edit the newly added advanced parameter value.

3. For an existing source, access the Source: ... General page of the Administration Tool to modify the value of the newly added advanced parameter:

   1. Select Index > Sources and Collections.

   2. Under Collections, select the collection containing the source you want to modify.

   3. Under Sources, click the existing source in which you want to modify the newly added advanced parameter.

   4. In the Source: ... General page, edit the newly added advanced parameter value, and then click Apply Changes.