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  3. Section VII. Data Collector Installation and Configuration for Cohesity NetBackup
  4. Configure a Veritas NetBackup Data Collector Policy
  5. Configuring file analytics in NetBackup Data Collector policy
  6. Prerequisites to configure File Analytics for NetBackup

Prerequisites to configure File Analytics for NetBackup

You can configure File Analytics within the NetBackup policy provided you adhere to these prerequisites:

  • File Analytics supports NetBackup v7.6 and later, NetBackup Appliance v2.6 and later.

  • Complete or Protection License Suite subscription: You must subscribe to the Complete or Protection License Suite of IT Analytics to enable File Analytics, as a policy, for your account.

  • Enabled Backup Policies probe: Ensure the Backup Policies probe is active or enabled within the NetBackup Policy.

Supported NetBackup policy types

Even though NetBackup has several policy types and reports to display their collected data. However, File Analytics captures data from these file policies for reporting and analytics:

  • MS-Windows

  • Standard

  • NDMP

  • Hyper V

  • VMware

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