About the FSA Agent

The FSA Agent must be installed on NTFS file servers on which you want to do any of the following:

Use placeholder shortcuts.
Implement File Blocking.
Gather data for FSA Reporting's reports.

For details of the prerequisite versions and service packs of the Windows operating system on the file server, see the Enterprise Vault Compatibility Charts.

The other prerequisites for the FSA Agent on the NTFS file server are as follows:

Windows Installer 3.1
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
.NET 2.0

Instructions for installing the FSA Agent on an NTFS file server are included in the Setting up File System Archiving manual.

In an environment where Windows file servers are grouped in a cluster, the FSA Agent must be installed on each cluster node. See Setting up File System Archiving for instructions.

For NetApp and Celerra file servers, the FSA Agent services that support placeholder shortcuts and FSA Reporting run on the Enterprise Vault server.

To implement File Blocking on NetApp file servers you must configure a Windows server in the Administration Console as a file server, and install the FSA Agent on the Windows server to provide a File Blocking agent server for the NetApp file server. See the Setting up File System Archiving manual.