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Appliance AutoSupport Reference Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.6, 8.5, 8.4, 8.2, 8.1, 7.0, 6.1, 6.0, 5.5.0.1, 5.3, 5.0, 4.0, 3.5.100, 3.5, 3.2)
Platform: Veritas 5340,Veritas 5260,Veritas 5250,Veritas 5150,Veritas 5350,NetBackup Flex Scale OS,Veritas 5240,Veritas 5360,Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 5270,Veritas 5372,Veritas 3360

Overview of AutoSupport

Cohesity AutoSupport is a set of infrastructures, processes, and systems that enhance the support experience through proactive monitoring of Cohesity Appliance hardware and software. AutoSupport also provides automated error reporting and support case creation.

Through automation, Internet access, and case management integration, Cohesity can improve the support process and give our support engineers the tools to solve problems faster. The AutoSupport infrastructure within Cohesity analyzes the Call Home data from each appliance to provide proactive customer support and incident response for hardware failures. This feature reduces the need for an administrator to initiate support cases. It also enables Cohesity to better understand how customers configure and use appliances, and where improvements would be most beneficial. AutoSupport correlates the Call Home data with other site configuration data held by Cohesity, for technical support and error analysis. With AutoSupport, Cohesity greatly improves the customer support experience.

This document discusses many aspects of AutoSupport, including architecture (how it works), operation (how to configure it), security and data privacy, and technical detail (the data).

AutoSupport supported platforms

AutoSupport supports the following appliance platforms:

  • NetBackup 5240 Appliance

  • NetBackup 5250 Appliance

  • NetBackup 5340 Appliance

  • NetBackup 5350 Appliance

  • 5150 Appliance

  • 5250 Appliance

  • 5260 Appliance

  • 5270 Appliance

  • 5340 Appliance

  • 5350 Appliance

  • 5360 Appliance

  • 5372 Appliance

  • Access 3340 Appliance

  • Access 3350 Appliance

  • Access 3360 Appliance

  • NetBackup Flex Scale 5551 Appliance

  • NetBackup Flex Scale 5561 Appliance

Additional information

For more information and additional documentation on Cohesity appliances, please visit the following Information Stores available on the Cohesity website: