Cove integration

What does the Cove integration do?

Our Cove integration links N-able’s Cove Data Protection with Rewst, to automate and manage data protection tasks within your Rewst workflows. Use the N-able Cove API to create, read, update, or delete backup jobs, monitor backup statuses, and access detailed reporting functionalities.

Integration use cases

  • Billing reconciliation

  • Onboarding of customers and devices

  • Self documentation

  • Automating actions on backup failure

Integration prerequisites

The user that will be used to authenticate with Cove API must have API Authentication enabled within Cove.

Set up the Cove integration

Set up steps in Cove Data Protection

  1. Log in to Cove Data Protection.

  2. Navigate to Management > Customers

  3. Choose the customer that you want to log in under, and copy their Customer ID.

Set up steps in Rewst

  1. Navigate to Configuration > Integrations in the left side menu of your Rewst platform.

  2. Click on the integration tile to launch the Configuration setup page.

  3. Under Configuration:

    1. Edit the Name

    2. Add an optional Description for your configuration.

  4. Under Parameters:

    1. Enter your Cove username in the Username field.

    2. Enter your Cove password in the Password field.

    3. Enter the name of the customer related to this integration in the Customer Name field.

    4. Paste the customer ID you copied from Cove into the Customer ID field.

    5. The base URL of the Cove API in the Base URL field will automatically populate into the form when you begin integration setup.

  5. Click Save Configuration.

Cove integration actions and endpoints

Cove’s up-to-date API documentation can be found here.

Category
Action
Description

Accounts

Adds a backup device

Gets information about a backup device using its name and password

Gets information about a backup device by its ID

Gets information about a backup device by its token

Gets a backup device ID number

Gets the list of devices of your own company and your customers

Gets the statistics of devices of your own company and your customers

Modifies a backup device

Removes a backup device

Generic Request

Generic action for making authenticated requests against the Cove API

Miscellaneous

Gets information on a Backup Dashboard view, including a list of columns displayed in this view

Gets the list of Backup Dashboard views for a user and the columns displayed in each

Gets the list of geographic regions

Gets the list of the storage locations

Gets the list of profiles available to your devices of your own company and your customers

Partners

Adds Customers

Gets the list of customers for your own company or your customers

Gets the list of properties for your own company or your customers

Gets the list of child customers for your own company or your customers

Gets information on a customer

Gets information on a customer using the customer ID

Gets information on a customer using the customer UID

Gets information on a customer history using the customer ID

Gets the current state of a customer using the customer ID

Gets a list of a customer’s child partners using the customer ID

Regenerates a customer UID using the customer ID

Changes the properties of an existing customer

Removes a customer

Users

Adds user

Gets the list of users of your own company and your customers

Gets information about a user using their name

Gets information about a user using the user ID

Modifies a backup user. Usernames and passwords cannot be changed

Removes a user

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