Configure sharing

The connectivity test page appears if you changed the sharing level of one or more vault stores to Share within vault store or Share within group.

The connectivity test helps to determine whether your network connectivity is sufficient to provide acceptable sharing performance within the vault store group.

Run Test. Click Run Test to start the connectivity test.

When you run the connectivity test from the Configure Sharing wizard, the test assesses network performance over the following connections:

When you run the connectivity test from the Configure Sharing wizard, the test assesses network performance over a number of connections. Table: Tested connections lists the source and the destination of each connection that is tested.

Table: Tested connections

Source

Destination

The Enterprise Vault server whose Storage service manages a randomly selected vault store in the vault store group.

The computer that hosts the open partition of the vault store whose sharing level has changed.

If the test cannot find an open partition, it looks for a ready partition or a closed partition. If no partitions are detected, this connection is not tested.

Note:

If the computer that hosts the partition is an EMC Centera device, the test looks for a partition that is hosted on a different device. This connection is not tested if all the partitions are hosted on Centera.

The Enterprise Vault server whose Storage service manages the vault store whose sharing level has changed.

The computer that hosts the open partition of the vault store whose sharing level has changed.

If the test cannot find an open partition, it looks for a ready partition or a closed partition. If no partitions are detected, this connection is not tested.

Note:

The Enterprise Vault server whose Storage service manages the vault store whose sharing level has changed.

The computer that hosts the SQL Server for the vault store group's fingerprint database.

Note:

This connection is not tested if the vault store group does not have a fingerprint database.

To assess network performance, the test measures the average round-trip response time for a number of ping requests over each connection.

Connectivity test progress. The progress indicator shows the progress of the test.

Results. For each tested connection the results show the source computer, the destination computer, and the connectivity rating.

The connectivity rating is one of the following:

Good. The average response time was less than or equal to 1 millisecond.
Bad. The average response time was between 1 millisecond and 10 milliseconds.
Very Bad. The average response time exceeded 10 milliseconds, or it timed out. You may have a very poor connection, or network security may not allow ping requests on the connection.
Not Tested. A connection is not tested if certain conditions apply. Table: Tested connections describes these conditions.

If the test generates a Bad or Very Bad connectivity rating, there is an option to cancel the rest of the test.

Enterprise Vault logs a summary of Bad, Very Bad, and Not Tested results in the event log.

Report. Click Report to view a report on the connectivity test. The report provides more detail on the source and destination for each tested connection. Click Copy to Clipboard on the report dialog to copy the test results to the clipboard, from where you can paste them into a text file.

If the test results are satisfactory, click Next to continue. If you click Next without running the connectivity test, the wizard asks you to confirm that you do not want to run the test.

Note:

If the test results include Bad or Very Bad connectivity ratings, the sharing performance is likely to be unacceptable. Correct your network performance, or change the vault store sharing levels.

Click Back to reconfigure the sharing levels.
Click Cancel to exit from the Configure Sharing wizard without changing the sharing boundaries. Note that the fingerprint database is preserved if you configured one earlier in the wizard.