NTFS

The NTFS connector for Elimity Insights fetches trustees, access rights and files for an NTFS file system so you can keep in control of your environment. Follow the instructions below to set up the connector for your environment.

1. Setting up a gateway

The Elimity Insights built-in connector for NTFS reads permissions from a local filesystem. Of course it's often not feasible to make these filesystems actually 'local' to your Elimity Insights server. Therefore we ask our customers to set up an additional point of indirection: each deployment of the Elimity Insights built-in connector for NTFS should communicate with an on-prem instance of the Elimity Insights gateway for NTFS. Only the on-prem gateway instance has direct access to its local filesystem. Refer to the documentation about our NTFS gateway for detailed setup instructions.

This version of the connector is currently compatible with gateway versions matching >1.0.0.

Note down your gateway's URL and the secret token you generated for authentication.

2. Creating a source in Elimity Insights

In Elimity Insights you can now create a new NTFS source providing the following configuration options:

Configuration option	Description
Gateway URL	HTTP(S) URL of the Elimity Insights NTFS gateway you set up in step 1.
Gateway secret token	Secret token you generated in step 1.
Targets	HJSON object mapping file labels to paths from which you want to start scanning; refer to our documentation about targets configuration for more details.
Max depth	Maximum level of directory nesting; use 0 to set no limit.
Only directories	Indicates whether to only scan directories.
Omit advanced access rights	Indicates whether to only import basic access rights.
Maximum concurrency	Maximum number of concurrent workers to use for scanning.
Overrides	HJSON object mapping file labels to configuration overrides; refer to our documentation about overrides configuration for more details.