Cohesity

Introdution

Cohesity Backup Appliance offers a hyper-converged platform that simplifies traditional data protection by unifying the entire data protection infrastructure, including target storage, backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Cohesity DataPlatform provides scale-out, globally deduplicated, highly available storage for consolidating all secondary data, including backups, files, and test/dev copies.

• Integrated Backup and Recovery: Simplifies data protection with integrated backup and recovery running directly on the Cohesity DataPlatform.
• Instant Search and Recovery: Enables fast data retrieval with the Cohesity indexing engine.
• Enterprise Scalability: Scales data protection across the enterprise with Cohesity’s web-scale DataPlatform architecture.

In IT infrastructures, efficient backup and restore mechanisms are essential to prevent data loss on mission-critical servers. Any hardware, storage, or memory issues on the Cohesity Backup appliance can delay data restoration and negatively impact service delivery. Therefore, closely monitoring the target Cohesity Backup server is crucial to ensure continuous and reliable backup services.

Key Benefits

• It discovers the Cohesity components. following is the resource structure.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.
• Provides metrics related to job scheduling time and status etc..
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource.

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 15.0.0 and above.
• OpsRamp Nextgen Gateway 15.0.0 and above.
  Note: OpsRamp recommends using the latest Gateway version for full coverage of recent bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
• Provided IpAddress/hostname, Credentials should work for accessing Cohesity REST APIs.

Hierarchy of Cohesity resource

       Cohesity Cluster
             - Cohesity Remote Cluster
             - Cohesity Node
                    - Cohesity Network Interface
                    - Cohesity System Disk
             - Cohesity Protection Job
             - Cohesity Storage Domain

Supported Metrics

Default Monitoring Configurations

Cohesity application has default Global Device Management Policies, Global Templates, Global Monitors and Global Metrics in OpsRamp. You can customize these default monitoring configurations as per your business requirement by cloning respective Global Templates and Global Device Management Policies. It is recommended to clone them before installing the application to avoid noise alerts and data.

1. Default Global Device Management Policies

   You can find the Device Management Policy for each Native Type at Setup > Resources > Device Management Policies. Search with suggested names in global scope:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: cohesity Cohesity Cluster - 1(i.e, appName = cohesity, nativeType = Cohesity Cluster , version = 1)

2. Default Global Templates

   You can find the Global Templates for each Native Type at Setup > Monitoring > Templates. Search with suggested names in global scope. Each template adheres to the following naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: cohesity Cohesity Cluster Template- 1(i.e, appName = cohesity, nativeType = Cohesity Cluster, version = 1)

3. Default Global Monitors available

   You can find the Global Monitors for each Native Type at Setup > Monitoring > Monitors. Search with suggested names in global scope. Each Monitors adheres to the following naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: Cohesity Cluster Monitor cohesity Cohesity Cluster 1 (i.e, monitorKey = Cohesity Cluster Monitor, appName = cohesity, nativeType = Cohesity Cluster, version = 1)

Configure and Install the Cohesity Integration

1. To select your client, navigate to All Clients, and click the Client/Partner dropdown menu.
   Note: You may either type your client’s name in the search bar or select your client from the list.
2. Navigate to Setup > Account. The Account Details screen is displayed.
3. Click Integrations. The Installed Integrations screen is displayed with all the installed applications.
   Note: If you do not have any installed applications, you will be navigated to the Available Integrations and Apps page with all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
4. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page.
   Note: Search for the integration either by entering the name of the integration in the search bar or by selecting the category of the integration from the All Categories dropdown list.
5. Click ADD in the Cohesity application.
6. In the Configuration screen, click + ADD. The Add Configuration screen appears.
7. Enter the following BASIC INFORMATION:

8. CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES: Custom attributes are the user-defined data fields or properties that can be added to the preexisting attributes to configure the integration.

Note: The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the integration. You can add a maximum of five custom attributes (key and value pair).

9. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:
   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.
10. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select recurrence pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
11. Click ADD.

Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it.
Note: From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.
12. Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.
Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.
13. Click NEXT.
14. (Optional) Click +ADD to create a new collector. You can either use the pre-populated name or give the name to your collector.
15. Select an existing registered profile.

16. Click FINISH.
    The integration is installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATION page. Use the search field to find the installed integration.

Modify Cohesity Integration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select Cohesity.

Discover Resources in Cohesity Integration

1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Search > Backup and Recovery > Cohesity. The Cohesity page is displayed.
2. Select the application on the Cohesity page
3. The RESOURCE page appears from the right.
4. Click the ellipsis (…) on the top right and select View Details.

5. Navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details.

View resource metrics

To confirm Cohesity monitoring, review the following:

• Metric graphs: A graph is plotted for each metric that is enabled in the configuration.
• Alerts: Alerts are generated for metrics that are configured as defined for integration.

6. Click the Metrics tab to view the metric details for Cohesity.

Supported Alert Custom Macros

Customize the alert subject and description with the following macros so that it can generate alerts accordingly.

Supported macros keys:

Resource Filter Input keys

Cohesity application Resources are filtered and discovered based on below keys.

Note: You can filter the resources with the discoverable keys only.

The following tabs represent the Resource Type of Cohesity

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• The integration can manage critical/recovery failure alerts for the following two scenarios when the user activates App Failure Notifications in the settings:
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Cohesity cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts. Metrics can be used to monitor cohesity resources and can generate alerts based on the threshold values.
• Component level thresholds can be configured on each resource level.
• No support of showing activity logs.
• The Template Applied Time will only be displayed if the collector profile (Classic and NextGen Gateway) is version 18.1.0 or higher.
• The minimum supported version for the option to get the latest snapshot metric is Nextgen-15.0.0.
• Cohesity supports both Classic Gateway and NextGen Gateway.

Version History