Cohesity storage system discovery

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 may require updating to the latest version of 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.

표 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.

표 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.

표 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.

표 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]