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  3. Section IV. End user
  4. Understand the portal
  5. About the Admin tab
  6. Advanced

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  • Parameters - Do not make adjustments to Advanced Parameters without assistance from Cohesity Support. These provide a mechanism for customizing data collection parameters to meet the needs of your organization.

    See Overview of advanced parameters.

  • Attributes - Allows you to add and manage enterprise object characteristics to facilitate specific filters for reporting and serve as an organizer for the Inventory Navigator. For example, you could associate a data center attribute to servers/hosts and storage arrays to narrow the scope of a report or view your enterprise inventory by data center.

    See Manage attributes .

  • Ransomware - Modify the default values of ransomware detection and NetBackup supportability. Ransomware administration allows you to set:

    • The percentage threshold up to which the storage pool space can be utilized for reporting on ransomware.

    • The lookback duration in days for ransomware RPO-RTO for job recovery.

    • The time duration in hours within which the service disruption must be restored.

    • The minimum supported version of Cohesity NetBackup primary server required to generate data for the ransomware scorecard.

    See Ransomware administration.

    Note:

    Access to ransomware administration is enabled through the user privileges or user group privileges. See Assigning user privileges.

  • Object Maintenance - The database contains a variety of enterprise objects on which reports can be generated. These objects also can have attributes associated with them to further refine the scope of a report. Using the Object Maintenance tool, you can manage these objects.

    See About object maintenance.

  • Support Tools - To help facilitate troubleshooting when working with Support, you can download data collector/portal log and configuration files for a specified time period.

    See Support tools.

  • System Notifications - Provides access to system notifications with the ability to view and suppress them.

  • System Configuration - Provides access for Super Users to configure a number of portal properties and system parameters that control everything from data retention periods to email settings to security.

  • License Administration - Request a new license, view license details and upload it from this location.

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