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Application Main Screen

The Applications page enables a user to view, add, modify or delete applications. The Applications grid provides the following columns:

  • Name - name of application

  • Description - additional information about the application

  • Type - common search or grouping criteria

  • Tags - allows users to group applications together

  • Actions - provides multiple options for the user, including editing or deleting the application

The amount of rows displaying applications can be changed with the Rows per page drop down at the bottom left of the page.

The user can also select through pages with the left and right arrows at the bottom right of the page.

The following are options throughout the Application page:

Option Description
Add New This option allows the user to add a new application.
Filters Allows the user to have a more defined search. Searchable items are Name, Type, and Tags.
Edit Allows various details about the application to be edited.
Delete Allows the user to delete the chosen application. The deleted application will not be available on the grid and a task will be created to clean the application references and data. This deletion task can be monitored on the Tasks screen.
Exclude Top Level Resources Function allowing the user to exclude top-level resources from being retrieved by a crawler action.
Download Installation Files Download command-line script for a silent installation of the Windows File Server Application Activity Monitor. Download Installation File is supported only by the Windows File Server application type.
Manage Resources Browse and manage all resources within the application. This action moves the user to the Resource Explorer.
Managed Normalized Resources View, modify, and manage all normalized resources within the application. Here, the user can also enable or disable the normalization, set or modify the normalization configuration and report on all normalized resources.
Managed Normalized Resources isn’t supported by all the application types and there are specific settings which should be defined during creation of the application in order to see this option.

Adding Applications

An application is a component that represents the monitored system, such as Microsoft Outlook, Active Directory, MS Windows file servers.

All active applications can be seen in Admin > Applications. You can add tags to applications to group the applications by (called containers in previous versions of File Access Manager).

In order to integrate with a component, we must first create an application entry. This entry includes the identification, connection details, and other parameters necessary to create the link.

To add a standard application, use the New Application Wizard.

Notes

The actual configuration pages and fields vary according to the application type you are adding. For a detailed description, see the relevant connector installation guide in Compass or on the documentation website.

For homegrown applications, see Proprietary Application Permissions Collection (Homegrown Apps)

Note

For bulk application loading, use the Bulk Application Wizard. See the connector installation guide. For example, Adding New Bulk Application(CIFS only).

  1. Go to Admin > Applications.

  2. Select Add New to open the wizard.

  3. Select Standard Application.

  4. Select Next to open the General Details page.

Field Description
Application Type Select the application type from the dropdown list.
Application Name Logical name of the application. Do not use a backslash in the name of the application.
Description Description of the application.
Tags Select tags for the application from the dropdown menu, and/or type a new name, and press Enter to create a new tag. The dropdown list of tags filters out matching tags as you type and displays up to 50 tags. Note: The tags replace the Logical container field that was used when creating applications in releases before 8.2.
Event Manager Server This option is available if there are more than one event manager servers configured in the system. Select an event manager from the drop-down menu.
Connection Details Server and user credentials to connect to the remote system.
Crawler and Permission Collection Associate an application with a Central Permission Collector Service. This service is responsible for running the Permission Collector and Crawler tasks. Note: The Crawler task progress bar will progress based on the number of resources scanned.
Data Classification Associate the application with a Central Data Classification Service. This service is responsible for running the Data Classification tasks.
Activity Configuration and DECs Change the default values of the activity monitoring attributes.
Access Fulfillment Allow File Access Manager to add and remove permissions.

See the relevant connector installation guide for full details.