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  2. Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
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  4. Add Discovery cases
Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Add Discovery cases

To ad Discovery cases

  1. Access the Administration portal.
  2. Click Discovery.
  3. On the left, click Cases.
  4. Click + New case.
  5. On the Case page, do the following actions:
    • Enter a name for the Discovery case.

    • Enable the Suppress legal hold option to stop the records from being preserved\secured on legal hold.

    • Enable the Enhanced Case option if you want to view analytics of the Discovery case. The Analytics tab are displayed on the Discovery case properties page.

      The Enhanced cases should only be used when one of the following is required:

      • Case/search dashboards

      • Case browsing on the Content page

      • User holds

      Note:

      Creating many enhanced cases requires the tenant to be scaled-up and results in incurring additional costs.

  6. Click Create.

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