or script for me to run a keyword search against a large volume of live data on Windows servers in multiple locations ( though I could run the script multiple times if needed, once for each location).
Anyone got any suggestions.
Many Many thanks ib advance.
You can use dtsearch on a trial basis.
Why not connect to the server with F-Response and use whatever search and/or forensic tool you're comfortable with?
Just re-read the OP. Yes a forensic network connector such as F-Response could don the trick. You can connect and mount multiple volumes and set the key word searching in the tool of your choice. Do you have to make production of anything (i.e. e-discovery) or is this more to cast a net to see what comes up?
Greetings,
The OP did say that he was looking for a free solution, so I don't think that recommending F-Response is terribly helpful.
Perhaps a script that he could run across the domain (assuming admin rights) that used the native Windows search capability?
-David
Perhaps the use of grep() or findstr would be helpful here. A batch file can be used to run through multiple systems, or perhaps a login script of some kind.
or script for me to run a keyword search against a large volume of live data on Windows servers in multiple locations ( though I could run the script multiple times if needed, once for each location).
We have a prototype network appliance under development but it is based on Open Source tools (e.g., Apache SOLR and Lucene), along with some custom content filters. It will full text index many (but not most) common document formats and index meta data for others and can be extended by writing your own file handlers (in Java). It requires access to administrative shares for Windows. It is not as robust, yet, as OutsideIn, which is not Open Source but the SDK of which can be licensed from Oracle.
As Harlan has mentioned about some of his tools, it would be a significant effort to productize it such that we would not be bombarded with questions from potential users, but it would not be hard to duplicate what we did using the same tools with some programming experience.
What kind files/data are you looking to analyze? As someone noted, dtSearch is pretty good (but not Open Source and not free). The real key is knowing where you expect to find the information for which you are looking and whether there has been a reasonable effort undertaken to obfuscate it.