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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

About Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administration portal

The Administration portal is a web-based portal for administrators and other privileged users that is used to perform backups, perform restores, and other administrative tasks as follows:

  • Adding and managing connectors

  • Downloading the services and utilities.

  • Performing ad hoc backups.

  • Scheduling backups.

  • Performing restores.

  • Managing user roles and permissions.

  • Creating and applying policies.

  • Preforming data searches.

Important: The Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administration portal is available in English. The Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection End-User portal is available in English and French.

To access the Administration portal:

You get the Administration portal URL for your tenant in the Welcome email at the time for provisioning. You can access the URL on the supported web browser (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge). Enter valid credentials to log on. After successful logon, the home page of the portal is displayed.

The customer with a fixed price model and full permissions can see the following modules on the home page:

Table:

Modules

Description

Administration

This option lets you perform the following:

  • Manage storage.

    See Viewing Stors (Storages).

  • Manager users and roles.

    See Permissions tab.

  • Manage connectors.

    See What is a connector?.

  • Configuring general setting on the Administration portal.

    See Configure Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administration portal.

  • Viewing upgrade history and the corresponding release notes.

    See View upgrade history .

  • Software download.

  • Configuring auditing.

    See Auditing.

Analytics

It helps you view the data statistics.

See About analytics .

Tiering

It helps you manage tiering policies.

See Add/edit Tiering policies.

Retention

It helps you manage retention and deletion policies.

See Add/edit Ingestion WORM retention policies and guidelines.

See Add/edit At-Rest WORM retention policies.

See Add/edit Deletion policies .

Tagging

It helps you manage tagging policies.

See Add/edit Tagging policies .

Discovery

It helps you manage searches, Discovery cases, and data under legal hold.

See About eDiscovery/searches.

License

It helps you view the license of your tenant.

Content

It helps you perform data restores.

See About restore.

System

It helps you monitor overall health of your tenant.

Note:

You can see fewer pages and options depending on permissions, the billing model, and enabled SKUs.

Two options are displayed at the upper right corner of the portal; one is the current user's name, and another takes you to the help document of Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection.

The Help option opens the Administrator's Guide for Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection. The knowledge base link opens the support site, where you can see all the Knowledge Articles for Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection. The About option opens the page with details such as the current version and details on the third-party licenses.

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