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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-08-04
Product(s):
Alta SaaS Protection (3.2.1)
- Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Copilot (AI chatbot)
- Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator portal (Web UI)
- Supported SaaS workloads
- Workflow to protect data using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Manage users and roles
- API permissions
- What is a connector?
- What is a connector?
- About transient errors
- Overview of adding connectors
- Configure General settings
- Configure Capture scope
- Configure User filter
- Configure Group filter
- Configure Folder filter
- Configure credentials
- Configure Custom backup policy and guidelines
- Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines
- Configure Stubbing policy
- Guidelines to configure Stubbing policy for SharePoint Online
- Schedule a backup
- Configure email addresses to get notifications
- Review configuration and edit/save/initiate backup
- Connectors page
- Connector status
- Edit connector configuration
- Delete connectors
- Pre-requisites to setup protection for M365
- Protect Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
- Protect Exchange Online data
- Protect SharePoint sites and data
- Setting up SharePoint Online protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Backup and restore support for SharePoint Online
- End-user SharePoint data access in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Run the Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment
- Backup limitations for SharePoint Online
- Protect Teams sites
- Protect OneDrive data
- Protect Teams chats
- Protect GoogleDrive data
- Protect Gmail data
- Protect Audit logs
- Protect Salesforce data and metada
- Protect Entra ID objects
- Protect Box data
- Protect Slack data
- Protect Email/Message data
- Configure Retention policies
- Perform backups
- View and share backed-up data
- Analytics
- About analytics
- Analytics page and refresh behavior
- Aggregation buckets
- Gain insights into storage utilization
- Gain insights into storage utilization for Entra ID and Salesforce connectors
- Gain insights into blocked activities, most active users, and more
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) on legal hold
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) saved in different Enhanced cases
- Gain insights into data volume (size and count) under different policies
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags behaviors
- Gain insights into storage savings after deduplication and compression
- Gain insights into data ingestion trends
- Perform restores using Administration portal
- About restore
- Prerequisites for restore
- Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
- Restore O365 audit logs
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- Restore Gmail data
- About Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore and Sandbox seeding
- Guidelines for Schema changes in Salesforce organization to prevent restore failures
- Restore Standard and Custom objects (Structured data restore)
- Custom Object restore - post processing steps
- Restore specific Records (Structured data) using Query filters
- Restore Salesforce CRM Content (Unstructured data restore)
- Restore Salesforce files/documents in Public/Shared libraries (Unstructured data restore)
- Limitations of Salesforce Data restore
- Salesforce Objects not supported for restore
- Key considerations for Salesforce Metadata restore
- Restore Salesforce Metadata
- Limitations of Salesforce Metadata backup and restore
- About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
- Restore Slack data
- Restore data to File server
- Set default restore point
- Configure Restore all, Restore all versions, Point-in-time, and Specific range restore options
- Configure email addresses for notifications
- Downloading an item
- Restore dashboard
- Install services and utilities
- About services and utilities
- Pre-requisites to download and install services and utilities
- Downloading services and utilities
- Where to install the services and utilities
- Installing or upgrading services and utilities
- Configuring service accounts for services and utilities
- About the Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Discovery
- Configure Tagging polices
- Configure Tiering policy
- Auditing
- Manage Stors (Storages)
Add Audit log connectors
With the Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection 2.36.1 release, the Audit Log Connector is supported for existing customers only. New customers will not have access to this feature.
Use the following procedure to add an Audit log connector.
To add an Audit log connector
- Access the Administration portal.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- Click Connectors on the Backup card.
- Click New backup connector.
- Click Audit Log.
To make the setup process easier and more intuitive, each tab in the connector creation workflow includes a help icon (?) at the left. You can click this icon to open the respective help topic for that tab, which can guide you through the setup step by step.
- On the General tab, set up the basic configuration for the connector.
- On the Capture scope tab, do the following:
In the Process last __days field, enter the number of days for which you want to backup the data.
By default, it is 14 days.
By default, the connector backs up data from the previous 14 days. It is recommended that you configure this option to 180 days for the first backup to ensure that all data for the last 180 days is backed up.
Once the initial backup is completed, Cohesity recommends changing this value to 7 days for efficient data processing during the subsequent backups.
If required, configure folder filters to include or exclude any specific folders from being backed up.
Click Next.
- On the Credentials tab, configure credentials to access the source workloads (the SharePoint data to be backed up) and click Next.
- Click Next.
- On the Scheduling tab, schedule when the backup job should run.
See Schedule a backup.
- On the Email notifications tab, configure email addresses to receive notifications about backup activities.
- On the Review tab, save the settings and initiate the backup.