Introduction

Welcome to the Nuix Enterprise Collection Center User Guide.

About Nuix Enterprise Collection Center

Enterprise Collection Center (ECC) collects files in a systematic and dependable manner to meet legal requirements, business continuity requirements, archiving, and data mining along with other imperatives.

Key benefits of Nuix Enterprise Collection Center

File collections and other tasks can be configured, scheduled and monitored from a central Administrative Console.

File collections and other tasks can run on multiple computers simultaneously.

Files are collected from computers across the enterprise, with support for Windows, Linux and macOS computers, including:

numerous personal computers

across multiple server shares

home computers beyond the firewall

PST files exported from Microsoft Exchange™ mailboxes and public folders

SharePoint® servers

RAM, volatile information and network packets can be collected from computers across the enterprise.

Arbitrary commands and scripts can be executed on computers across the enterprise.

Full disk images can be collected.

Data can be moved securely and reliably from one location to another.

Support for secure file deletion from computers across the enterprise.

About this guide

This User Guide focuses on daily operations run from Nuix Enterprise Collection Center's Administration Console program.

The instructions in this guide assume that you are familiar with the technical and legal aspects of data collection and preservation.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for Collections Administrators who will configure, schedule and manage file collections, disk & volume image collections, launch commands and perform other kinds of collection-related tasks.

Administrators responsible for installing Nuix Enterprise Collection Center may also find this guide helpful; however, their primary reference should be the Enterprise Collection Center Administration Guide.

Additional information

For terminology specific to collections, refer to Appendix A: Glossary in this guide.

Refer to the Enterprise Collection Center Administration Guide for details on installing, configuring, and managing Enterprise Collection Center.

For details regarding JobFile structure and contents, refer to the Nuix Collector and ECC JobFile Reference.

To automate or script Nuix ECC, refer to the ECC REST API v2 Reference Guide. This guide is available online at the following two links:

ECC REST API v2 - General Notes:

https://nuix.github.io/sdk-docs/latest/products/endpoint/ecc_rest_api.html

ECC REST API v2 - Command Reference and Examples:

https://nuix.github.io/sdk-docs/latest/reference/eccapireference.html

Software license and disclaimer

For software license terms and disclaimer, please refer to the eula.html file located in your Nuix Enterprise Collection Center program folder.

Platforms

All Nuix ECC components run on Windows, Linux and Mac computers* to perform file collections, disk image collections**, volatile information collections, RAM image collections** and network packet capture. For details see the topic System Requirements in the accompanying Nuix ECC Administration Guide.

* 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are supported. The following 64-bit editions of macOS are supported: High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey.

** Disk image and RAM image collections are not supported on macOS.

Note: ECC Server and ECC Admin Console require a 64-bit operating system, as does ECC Client with Search. ECC Client (without search) is the only ECC component supported on 32-bit operating systems.