Cohesity storage system discovery

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Cohesity Storage System Discovery

    The Cohesity Storage System discovery application within ServiceNow's ITOM Visibility helps identify clusters, nodes, and chassis associated with the Cohesity DataPlatform. To utilize this functionality, ensure that the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application is updated from the ServiceNow Store. Cohesity's software consolidates data management and provides analytics capabilities, addressing issues of data fragmentation across various systems and cloud environments.

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    Key Features

    • Discovery Capabilities: Enables the discovery of Cohesity clusters and nodes and populates the CMDB with relevant data.
    • Support for Multiple Workloads: The DataPlatform supports backups, archives, and analytics across physical servers and virtual machines.
    • API Permissions: Requires proper API authentication for access to critical data endpoints.
    • Serverless Discovery Schedule: Allows for automated discovery scheduling for efficient management.

    Key Outcomes

    By implementing Cohesity Storage System discovery, customers can:

    • Enhance visibility of their data management infrastructure.
    • Improve data organization in the CMDB with accurate records of clusters, nodes, and chassis.
    • Facilitate better management of data workloads across cloud-native platforms.
    • Streamline operational processes by automating discovery tasks.

    For successful implementation, verify that the necessary applications are updated, the MID Server is properly configured, and API permissions are correctly set up. Following these prerequisites ensures a smooth discovery process and reliable data integration.

    The Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application uses the Cohesity Storage System pattern to find clusters, nodes, and chassis for the Cohesity DataPlatform. Discovering some of these resources requires updating the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Cohesity develops software that are used to consolidate and simplify data management, and it includes analytics capabilities. Their software also solves the problem of mass data fragmentation with data that extends across multiple systems or cloud providers.

    The company's main product, DataPlatform, is a hyper-converged software that allows businesses to consolidate a variety of workloads, including backups, archives, test, development, and analytics data onto a single cloud-native platform. It works with physical servers as well as virtual machines.

    Cohesity extends backup capabilities to NoSQL workload distributed databases like MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase, and Apache HBase, as well as Apache Hadoop data on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) datastores.

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    Prerequisites

    Verify that the applications are up to date
    • CMDB CI Class Models, from version 1.37.0
    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns, from version 1.0.91
    Verify MID Server configuration
    Verify the MID Server is set to Active and is reachable to the Cohesity storage cluster.
    Verify API permissions
    Verify you have a basic authentication account configured with proper permissions for the following API calls:
    • https://" + ${cluster_ip} + "/irisservices/api/v1/public/cluster?fetchStats=true
    • https://" + ${cluster_ip} + "/irisservices/api/v1/nexus/cluster/status
    • https://" + ${cluster_ip} + "/irisservices/api/v1/public/nodes?fetchStats=true
    • https://" + nodeIp + "/irisservices/api/v1/nexus/node/hardware_info
    Create an alias for the basic authentication credential
    For more information, see Create an alias for a basic authentication credential for Cohesity storage system discovery.
    Create a serverless discovery schedule
    For more information, see Create a serverless schedule for Cohesity storage system discovery.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Cohesity Storage System pattern.

    Table 1. Cohesity Cluster [cmdb_ci_cohesity_cluster]
    Label Description
    IP Address [ip_address] IP address of the cluster.
    Fully qualified domain name [fqdn] Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the cluster.
    Table 2. Cohesity Node [cmdb_ci_cohesity_node]
    Label Field Name
    Manufacturer [manufacturer] Manufacturer of the cluster node, which could be Cohesity or third-party.
    Fully qualified domain name [fqdn] FQDN of the node within the cluster.
    Operational status [operational_status] Operational status. Default value: Installed.
    Description [short_description] Description of the cluster node: Cohesity Backup Server.
    Table 3. Chassis [cmdb_ci_chassis]
    Label Field Name
    Manufacturer [manufacturer] Manufacturer of the chassis.
    Description [short_description] Description of the chassis: Cohesity Chassis.
    Serial number [serial_number] Serial number of the chassis.
    Table 4. IP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
    Label Field Name
    Name [name] Name of the Cohesity node.
    IP Address [ip_address] IP address of the Cohesity node.
    IP version [ip_version] IP version of the Cohesity node.

    CI relationships

    Discovery creates these relationships to support the Cohesity storage system discovery.
    CI Relationship Type CI
    Cohesity Node [cmdb_ci_cohesity_node] Owns::Owned by IP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
    Cohesity Node [cmdb_ci_cohesity_node]

    Cluster of::Cluster

    		 Cohesity Cluster [cmdb_ci_cohesity_cluster]
    Cohesity Node [cmdb_ci_cohesity_node] Hosted on::Hosts Chassis [cmdb_ci_chassis]