Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide
- Getting started with CloudPoint
- Section I. Installing and configuring CloudPoint
- Preparing for installation
- About the deployment approach
- Deciding where to run CloudPoint
- Meeting system requirements
- CloudPoint host sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the physical host to install CloudPoint
- Installing Docker
- Creating and mounting a volume to store CloudPoint data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Deploying CloudPoint
- Deploying CloudPoint in the AWS cloud
- Using plug-ins to discover assets
- Configuring off-host plug-ins
- AWS plug-in configuration notes
- Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration notes
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- Configuring an off-host plug-in
- About CloudPoint plug-ins and assets discovery
- Configuring the on-host agents and plug-ins
- About agents
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- MongoDB plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes
- About the installation and configuration process
- Preparing to install the Linux-based on-host agent
- Preparing to install the Windows-based on-host agent
- Downloading and installing the on-host agent
- Configuring the Linux-based on-host agent
- Configuring the Windows-based on-host agent
- Configuring the on-host plug-in
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Preparing for installation
- Section II. Configuring users
- Section III. Protecting and managing data
- User interface basics
- Indexing and classifying your assets
- Protecting your assets with policies
- Tag-based asset protection
- Replicating snapshots for added protection
- About snapshot replication
- About cross-account snapshot replication in the AWS cloud
- Requirements for replicating snapshots
- Cross-account snapshot replication support matrix
- Cross-account snapshot replication limitations
- Configuring replication rules
- Editing a replication rule
- Deleting a replication rule
- Managing your assets
- Creating a snapshot manually
- Displaying asset snapshots
- Replicating a snapshot manually
- About snapshot restore
- About single file restore (granular restore)
- Single file restore requirements and limitations
- Restoring a snapshot
- Additional steps required after restoring disk-level snapshots
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after an Oracle snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after a MongoDB snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Restoring individual files within a snapshot
- Deleting a snapshot
- Monitoring activities with notifications and the job log
- Protection and disaster recovery
- Section IV. Maintaining CloudPoint
- CloudPoint logging
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint
- Restarting CloudPoint
- Docker may fail to start due to a lack of space
- CloudPoint installation fails if rootfs is not mounted in a shared mode
- Some CloudPoint features do not appear in the user interface
- Off-host plug-in deletion does not automatically remove file system and application assets
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Snapshot restore for encrypted AWS assets may fail
- Error while adding users to CloudPoint
- CloudPoint fails to revert restored snapshots if indexing, classification, or restore operations fail
- SQL snapshot or restore and SFR operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the CloudPoint host
- Troubleshooting CloudPoint logging
- Swagger UI-based authorization for CloudPoint REST API calls may fail
- Policy retention count is not honored for file system and application assets if there is an issue with the CloudPoint plug-in
- Working with your CloudPoint license
- Managing CloudPoint agents and plug-ins
- Upgrading CloudPoint
- Uninstalling CloudPoint
- Section V. Reference
About agents
CloudPoint agents do the following:
Translate between the message protocol and the plug-in interface.
Ensure secure communication between the plug-ins and the rest of the CloudPoint components.
Provide a common implementation of certain tasks such as polling for asset changes (if the plug-in does not support pushing updates).
Handle authentication.
There are two types of agents: on-host agents and off-host agents. An on-host agent must be installed and configured on a host where an application is running. The on-host agent manages one or more on-host plug-ins. You need on-host agents and on-host plug-ins to take snapshots of an Oracle application or a Linux file system.
In contrast, off-host agents and off-host plug-ins do not need a separate host on which to run. You use off-host agents and off-host plug-ins to take snapshots of public cloud assets and on-premises storage arrays.
CloudPoint has an off-host agent known as parent agent that manages all configurations. Each configuration has a separate agent container which manages a particular configuration and is treated as a child agent. The child agent is also an off-host type. There can be multiple child agents for each parent agent. All the operations on the plug-in, such as GET, PUT, DELETE, work on the off-host (parent) agent.
When a new configuration is added in CloudPoint, it is added to a child agent container which handles the configuration. The new configuration starts the registration with CloudPoint and it restarts automatically when the registration is finished. During this time, the child agent goes offline and comes back online after the restart of the container is completed.
The following table shows you the type of agent required for each type of asset snapshot.
Table: Asset types and the type of plug-ins
Asset type and vendors | On-host plug-in | Off-host plug-in |
|---|---|---|
Application
| ✓ | X |
Supported file systems on:
| ✓ | X |
Public cloud (host snapshot or disk snapshot)
| X | ✓ |
On-premises storage array
| X | ✓ |
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