Creating a local quarantine location

File Blocking quarantines those files that are blocked because of content-checking. You must create a local quarantine location on each file server. If you have also defined a central quarantine location, that central location is used when a File Blocking rule requires that a file is moved to quarantine. However, if the central location is not defined, or is temporarily not available, the local quarantine location is used.

If neither a central nor a local quarantine location is available, Enterprise Vault uses the Quarantine subfolder of the Enterprise Vault installation folder locally where the File Blocking agent resides.

Note the following if you configure File Blocking in a clustered environment where multiple cluster groups can come online on the same cluster node. The quarantine location must have the same value for all the virtual servers that can be online concurrently on the same node.

To configure a local quarantine location on a file server

  1. Decide on a suitable quarantine location on the file server.

    Note:

    The Vault Service account must have write access to the location.

    Note:

    Do not select a location to which a File Blocking rule will be applied.

  2. Expand the Administration Console tree until the Targets container is visible.

  3. Expand the Targets container.

  4. Expand the File Servers container.

  5. Right-click the server on which you want to set the quarantine location and, on the shortcut menu, click Properties.

  6. On the File Blocking tab, enter the path to the folder you want to use for quarantine. Click the browse button if you want to select the location from a list.

  7. Click OK.