NetBackup IT Analytics Foundation License Inclusions and Implementation Guide

Pre-Installation setup for Cohesity Flex Appliance

With NetBackup IT Analytics version 11.5 or higher, the Cohesity Flex Appliance policy can also be configured with the Distributed Data Collector. 

In most cases, a single instance of the Data Collector can support any number of enterprise objects. However, each environment has its own unique deployment configuration requirements, so it is important to understand where the Data Collector software must be installed so that you can determine how many Data Collectors must be installed and which servers are best suited for the deployment.

Cohesity Flex Appliance policy consists of three probes - Appliance Details, Performance Statistics, and Storage Statistics. All the probes are independent of each other and can run in different schedules. All the probes collect data from Cohesity Flex Appliance using REST APIs exposed by the appliance. Data is collected for each container and is segregated on basis of appliance and host node on which container is running. The policy collects resource and storage utilization data and hardware details from all the configured appliances and differentiates the collection by appliances and its nodes and containers.

Cohesity Flex Appliance v4.0 supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). A secret key is generated while providing user access to such MFA-enabled appliances and it remains associated with the user credentials. NetBackup IT Analytics Cohesity Flex Appliance policy requires this secret key for authentication every time it accesses the appliance for data collection.