Custom Backup Report Configuration

Introduction

Learn how to configure a backup report using Cohesity provided by IS.

Estimated Time to Complete

Reviewing this guide will take no more than 10 minutes

Vocabulary

Term Definition
Cohesity Cohesity is the current backup solution provided by IS.
Cohesity Report Summary or Details of cohesity related operations such as: backups, backup agent health, storage consumption, snapshot copies, etc.
Schedule The frequency of the report run.
Registered Sources These are the actual objects in Cohesity such as: servers, VMs, Storage volumes, SQL servers, AD servers, etc.
Job Name You can report on a specific job if you prefer. This would be useful for a VM job. Rather than selecting each VM in the "sources" area you could just pick the job that protects them all to report on.
Time Span This is the amount of data. If you are sending the report each day, you would probably want a 24 hour time span. If you have a job that runs less frequently then maybe the last 30 days or week is appropriate.
Run Status This is the amount of data. If you are sending the report each day, you would probably want a 24 hour time span. If you have a job that runs less frequently then maybe the last 30 days or week is appropriate.

Steps

  1. Login to the Cohesity web UI
    1. Provide your Duck ID
      1. If you don't have access, please submit a ticket on the Data Protection Support service page.
  2. Build Report and Schedule
    1. Click Reporting in the left pane of the new UI.
    2. Select the Report you wish to configure.
    3. On the right side of the Reports screen use the drop-down menu and choose a report. For this example, we will be using Backup Summary
    4. Click the blue Email option
    5. Add a comma separated list of email addresses on the Email Recipients line. 
    6. Select the reporting format you prefer
    7. Choose how often you would like to receive the report and at what hour.
  3. Choose what you want the report to contain:
    1. Registered Sources
    2. Job Name
    3. Time Span
    4. Run Status
  4. Save Schedule
    1. Your report will automatically be sent to the email addresses you provided at the time specified.

Conclusion

Following the listed steps will allow you to create a custom Cohesity report, but if you have any problems please submit a ticket to the Data Protection Support service page.

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