Install Client Software

Installing File Discovery, Entitlement and Classification (FDEC) for your NAS or SharePoint environment

Before you begin

  • Users need administrative privileges that match on both the server side as well as NAS and SharePoint environments. Please review the permissions guidelines before proceeding: Scan Permissions.
  • For detailed platform prerequisites and support NAS devices, see Supported platforms for file discovery.

Procedure

  1. Determine what environment to use, NAS or SharePoint. If a user wants to install the client to scan a NAS device, install the client on a Windows server that can access the NAS device through the network. But if a user wants to install the client to scan SharePoint, install it directly on the SharePoint server or SharePoint server farm.
    Note: There should be no other Guardium products on this server.
  2. Download the FDEC for NAS and SharePoint package from Fix Central to the server and unzip this file.
  3. Navigate to the FDEC package installer directory and run the executable file setup.exe in the installer directory.
  4. Follow the prompts in the wizard to complete the installation.
    1. Specify the service user who has admin privileges for the share they wish to scan.
    2. In the Network Addresses screen, enter a list of Guardium hostnames or IP addresses. If there is a failover, the FDEC agent connects to the next appliance on the list.
    Note:

    The default installation directory for FDEC for NAS is C:\Program Files\IBM\FDECforNAS

    The default installation directory for FDEC for SharePoint is C:\Program Files\IBM\FDECforSP