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Managing Content Indexes

Before you can use a content agent, you must create an index of digital fingerprints for all files protected by the agent. Until an index has been built and the content agent has been published, the agent cannot be used in user policy. That is, any content agent trigger that uses an unpublished agent will be unable to detect fingerprinted files.

If you change or extend the files protected by a specific content agent, you must rebuild the index and republish the agent. If you have made substantial changes to the files protected by a content agent, we recommend that you purge the index to remove all digital fingerprints and then rebuild it.

To build a content index

After adding the files that you want a content agent to protect, you must build an index of these files.

1. Select the agent in the Content Registration screen.
2. Click the Start Build button.

   This launches a scanning job. If you need to cancel the job, click the Stop Build button.

   When the build process is complete, you must publish the associated content agent.

To rebuild a content index

You need to rebuild an index if the list of files protected by a specific content agent changes. If you build an index again, it contains the fingerprints for original list of protected files plus the fingerprints any new or modified files. This means that the rebuilt index may contain fingerprints for both new and old versions of the same file. To eliminate multiple versions of the same file from the index, you must purge and rebuild the index.

The rebuild procedure is the same as when you build an index for the first time:

1. Select the agent in the Content Registration screen.
2. Click the Start Build button.

   When the build process is complete, the index contains the original list of protected files plus any new or modified files.

   You must now publish the updated content agent.

To purge a content index

1. Select the agent in the Content Registration screen.
2. Click the Purge button.

   You now need to rebuild the index.