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How to create a Box Connector app to scan Box accounts.
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How to create a Box Connector app to scan Box accounts.
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Login to relevant Box account.
Navigate to Dev Console.
Select Create New App and then Custom App
Select Server Authentication (with JWT) and enter app name, then click Create App
In the Configuration tab, change App Access Level to App + Enterprise Access, then, enable Generate user access tokens and Make API calls using the as-user header.
Click on Save changes
Make sure the below Application Scopes are selected
Content Actions > Read all files and folders stored in Box
Content Actions > Write all files and folders stored in Box
Administrative Actions > Manage users
Administrative Actions > Manage groups
In the same Configuration tab, scroll down to Generate a Public/Private Keypair
This will result in a JSON file being downloaded by the browser
In Authorization tab, click Review and Submit followed up with adding a description before submitting the app for review
Make note of User ID and Enterprise ID of the App in General Settings tab
Exit Dev Console and switch to the Admin Console
In Admin Console, go to Apps > Custom Apps Manager and locate the newly created app and click View button
Review the information and Authorize the app
Navigate to Administration -> Data Sources -> Box -> New scan
Provide the values generated in the above steps from the Box application
Click on the Folder icon in Path to select a particular folder to scan, or leave the path as empty to scan all folders
Save the configuration
Once the configuration is saved, click on the icon on the right and select Start trustee scan to begin the trustee scanning
The scan results can be viewed under Dashboard > Access Governance
Click on the icon on the right and select Start file scan to begin the files scanning
The results can be viewed under Dashboard > Enterprise Search
The Box Pricing Plans required for metadata writing are Business Plus, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus. The basic Business plan does not include custom metadata and metadata templates.
A metadata template must be created to support Getvisibility's tags. Please follow the below steps to achive this.
In the Admin Console, in the lefthand navigation click Content
Toward the top of the page, click Metadata
Click Create New
Click Name Your Template and enter name as getvisibility
Create a new attribute named as Classification with options as: Public, General Business, Confidential, Highly-Confidential
Similarly, create two more attributes:
Distribution with options as: Internal, External
Compliance with options as: PCI, PII, PHI
Use the Status drop down to indicate this template is Visible
Click Save
