Archive or Retire External Attachments to the Data Vault
Archive or Retire External Attachments to the Data Vault
You can archive or retire external attachments to the Data Vault. To archive external attachments to the Data Vault, you must also archive the associated data. You can access external attachments through the Data Discovery Portal after you archive or retire them.
To archive external attachments to the Data Vault, the attachment locations must be available to both the ILM Engine and the Data Vault Service. If the external attachments are encrypted, such as Siebel attachments, you must configure FASA to decrypt the attachments. Before you run the archive or retirement job, configure the source and target connections.
If your environment is configured for live archiving, you must also create and configure an interim table in the Enterprise Data Manager for the attachments.
If you plan to retire all of the external attachments in the directory, you do not need to configure an interim table in the EDM. If you want to retire only some of the external attachments in the directory, you must configure an interim table in the EDM and add a procedure to the Run Procedure in Generate Candidates step of the archive job.
If you configured the source connection to move the attachments synchronously with the archive or retirement job, run the Load External Attachments job after the archive job finishes. The Load External Attachments job loads the attachments to the Data Vault.
If you did not move the attachments synchronously with the archive job, run the Move External Attachments standalone job after you run the archive job. The Move External Attachments job moves the attachments to the interim attachment table. You can then load the attachments to the Data Vault with the Load External Attachments job.
After you archive the external attachments, you can view the attachments in the Data Discovery Portal. To view the archived external attachments, search the Data Vault for the entity that contains the attachments. You cannot search the contents of the external attachments.