Content-aware search groups provide the ability to search for log records and other data objects by various features of data, such as file types, keywords, document properties, etc. Search groups are similar to content groups employed by content-aware rules in the DeviceLock Service and content discovery rules in the Discovery Server. Like content groups, search groups are used to determine the data to find. A query that includes a search group returns results matching that group.

Search groups are administered and stored separately from search queries. This provides for centralized management of search groups with the ability to reuse them in different queries and tasks. When administering search groups, bear in mind that changing a search group affects the search results of all queries and tasks based on that group.

Search groups are stored in the DeviceLock Content Security Server’s database on the designated SQL Server. In the DeviceLock Management Console, the repository of these groups is referred to as the Content Database. Since search groups are stored on the SQL Server, the Content Database can be independent of the DeviceLock console host and optionally the DeviceLock server host used to manage the database/s on the SQL Server.

Search groups can be added to full-text search queries (see Steps to perform a search) as well as to search task queries ( Setting up the search query).

The following sections provide instructions for managing search groups, as well as a description of search groups and their settings by group type: