HP RISS Components manual Riss overview, RIM applications for users, Application Tasks

1 RISS overview

This chapter describes key concepts involving the HP Reference Information Storage System (RISS) and Reference Information Manager (RIM).

It contains the following topics:

•RISS, page 17

•RIM, page 17

RISS

RISS is a fault-tolerant, secure system of hardware and software that archives files and email messages for your organization, and lets you search for archived documents. RISS provides the following main functions:

•Automatic, active data archiving (email and specific document types) that helps your organization meet regulatory requirements.

•Interactive data querying to search for and retrieve archived data according to various criteria.

RIM

Reference Information Manager (RIM) is management software for RISS. To interact with the system, users can use the following applications:

Table 2 RIM applications for users

Application	Tasks
RIM for Exchange (customer	Search for emails using Microsoft Outlook with a Microsoft
option)	Exchange mail server. View and work with archived emails.
RIM for Domino (customer	Search for emails using IBM Lotus Notes with an IBM Domino
option)	mail server. View and work with archived emails.

RISS and RIM provide the following troubleshooting and administrative tools:

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