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How to Configure Aggregation Buckets in Alta SaaS Protection

Article: 100050002
Last Published: 2025-04-18
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Product(s): Veritas Alta SaaS Protection

Description

Each Stor has a metadata configuration where you can define ' Aggregation Buckets'. These are groupings of specific metadata values or ranges that Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection (ASP) leverages in the various dashboards found in ' Analytics'. In the case of ' ItemTypes', ASP also exposes the groupings for use searches and policies.

To view or modify Aggregation Buckets in a Stors metadata configuration, follow these steps:
 

Step 1 -- Navigate to Metadata

Click the ' Administration' tab, go to ' Storage' and then select the desired Stor in your configuration. After clicking a Stor, click on the ' Metadata' tab.

 
 

Step 2 -- Expand a Metadata Field

Highlight the mouse over one of the metadata fields and select the pencil icon to see how its Aggregation Buckets are defined.


 

Step 3 -- Add Aggregation Buckets

If you wish to add to the default list of Aggregation Buckets, click the ' Add Bucket' button.

 
This will display the ' Aggregation Bucket' window where you need to provide a label for the bucket, specify the type as a range or specific value (if configurable), and enter the values.

NOTE: For metadata fields that are Int32 or DateTime, the bucket type can be either range or specific value. But metadata fields that are Principal or NormalizedString are always specific value.
 

Configure Specific Values

In the ' Aggregation Buckets' window, if the type is a specific value, you can configure one or multiple values by typing in the blank ' Value' field.  
 
 
This will display a window for you to enter the value and you just need to select the value.  
 
Click ' Add' again on the ' Aggregation Bucket' window to stop editing it. 
 
NOTE: Make sure to click ' Save' (at the top left within the ' Metadata' tab) to save any changes you made to Aggregation Buckets.
 
 
 
 

Configure Ranges

 
If the type is a range, then you need to configure the various ranges that you wish to see in the charts of your analytics dashboards.
 
To do this,select 'Range' to enable the start and/or end, then select the date or put the exact value, and click 'Add'.
 
 
Typically, one range will be configured with only a start, and another with only an end. These will serve as the bookends for all the various ranges that you configure in between. This way, if the metadata type is Int32 (Size), the bottom range will typically be labelled as:
 
< n
and the top range as:
> n
Likewise, for DateTime type, the bottom range is typically labelled as:
Before n
and the top range as:
After n
 

 

NOTE: Make sure to click 'Save' (at the top left within the 'Metadata' tab) to save any changes you made to Aggregation Buckets.

 

Additional Information
Deleting Buckets

You can remove an Aggregation Bucket at any time by editing it and selecting ' Remove' at the top.
 

 

Saving / Loading Item Type Templates

Your item types configuration can be saved by clicking the ' Save As Template' button. If your ASP configuration has multiple Stors, you can optionally ' Load From Template', and if desired, modify the template and save a new variation of it.
 


 
 

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