Add Cohesity SmartFiles Host

Before adding Cohesity SmartFiles to the Activity Monitor, the prerequisites for the target environment must be met. See the Cohesity SmartFiles Activity Auditing Configuration topic for additional information.

Step 1 – In the Console, open the Monitored Hosts/Services page and select Add Host/Service.

Step 2 – Choose the agent that will monitor the Cohesity SmartFiles cluster.

Step 3 – Select Cohesity SmartFiles and enter the Cohesity cluster name.

Step 4 – Specify the API key to access the Cohesity cluster via the API. Use the built-in instruction to create the API key directly from this step.

Step 5 – Specify the account that has SMB access to the COHESITY_AUDIT_VIEW audit logs share.

Step 6 – Select Connect to verify that the product has access to the Cohesity cluster.

Step 7 – Select the views to monitor. If the list is left empty, the product monitors all views that have auditing enabled.

Step 8 – Select Enable Audit Log option for specified views if you want the product to automatically enable auditing for all views in the monitoring scope.

Step 9 – Complete the wizard by selecting the required operations and outputs.

warning

Audit log events from Cohesity SmartFiles may be delayed. Events can appear with a latency ranging from a few minutes up to an hour.

This delay is by design: Cohesity prioritizes active workloads over audit log flushing. As a result, with the default configuration, audit logs are suitable for historical analysis but not real-time monitoring.

An internal configuration option exists in Cohesity that can reduce this latency by forcing audit logs to be written more frequently. If you need to reduce latency, contact Cohesity Support.