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Overview of the Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Connector Service

Article: 100050075
Last Published: 2025-09-04
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Product(s): Alta SaaS Protection

Description

The Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection (CASP) Connector Service is software that is deployed behind your firewall to provide policy-based archiving to your CASP cloud tenant. It runs on a Windows VM, uses a service account, and can be installed and configured in minutes.
 
With the software installed, you will access its interface to configure connectors and their policies for archiving and optionally stubbing, deletion, and scheduled archiving. Connectors are included and configured through the user interface. They provide a connection to the data sources you wish to archive.

The CASP Connector Service includes an embedded database that supports monitoring and logging. You do not need to worry about backing up this database since it contains no mission critical information and can be rebuilt from CASP in the cloud.
 
 
A Deeper Look at the Ingestion Process
 
The following diagram provides a step-by-step look at how the CASP Connector Service performs capture and sends items to your CASP cloud archive:
 
 
  1. The CASP Connector Service initiates the process by invoking calls to the connector starting with GetLocations, then iterates through each location with GetSubLocations and GetItemsInLocation.
  2. At each level the connector responds to calls from the service, fetching the requested data from the data source and providing it to the CASP.
  3. At each level it stores the latest data about the data source.
  4. It then computes the delta from the prior scan and evaluates policies to determine any necessary operations.
  5. For any operations, the CASP Connector Service instructs the connector. In the case of archiving, this is to prepare for write and passes the list of items to capture.
  6. The connector fetches the relevant blobs, permissions, and item metadata from the data source.
  7. The connector sends the requested data to the service.
  8. The CASP Connector Service sends the data to the CASP cloud and receives a commit which it records in its embedded database.
 
 
 

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