Connection Details

Database Server

The address of the SharePoint server containing the configuration database

  • If you're using a non-default port number, add it, separated by a comma - [Server Name],[Port]

    The default port number is 1433

  • If the database has an instance name the address should be in a format of “[Server Name]\[Instance Name]”

  • To enter a database with an instance name on a server with a non-default port number, use the format “[Server Name]\[Instance Name],[port]”

Note: There are cases in which you will have configure an alias for Windows to support this non-default database name format. See the Troubleshooting section below.

Domain Name / Username

The user defined in the prerequisites. This field is used by the Data Classification service. The Permissions Collector and Activity Monitor services will use it for impersonation to allow a connection via windows authentication to the SharePoint database

Password

The user defined in the prerequisites

Leave Audit On

Whether to leave the SharePoint audit on when the service is off

Analyze permissions on files

Check this box to display files that break permissions inheritance. Analyze the permissions of those files.

Purge Old Audit Events / Days to Keep Events

Deletes audits older than a given number of days from the SharePoint Content database, using the SharePoint API

IIS Log Configuration

Determines whether to specify IIS log folders manually or automatically, as explained in Connector Overview and Add the “IIS Management Console” Role for Activity Monitoring.

  • Manual: Configure access to the IIS log folders manually through UNC shares. This is defined in Add the “IIS Management Console” Role for Activity Monitoring.

    Fill in the IIS Log Folder Paths list with the UNC path for each Web Application on each Front-end server.

  • Automatic: Let the monitor identify all front-end servers, web applications, and IIS log folder locations. (This is the default setting).

    This mode also sets the IIS Host field logging for each Web application in each front-end server if it was not previously set.

Servers to Exclude: If there are front-end servers that do not require monitoring, fill in this list.

Each entry may be a server name or address.

Type in a server name to exclude, and click + to add it to the list.

To remove an item from the list, click the x icon on the item row.

Specify configuration database name?

Determines whether to specify a name for the configuration database in case it differs from the default “SharePoint_Config” name.

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