Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Adding properties to systems and replication pairs

Properties provide information for classifying systems, and the data contained in Replication contexts, for searching, filtering, and organizing. For example, you could assign properties to help filter the list of systems in the Infrastructure > Systems page and narrow the scope of output that is produced by a dashboard widget or generated report. When a system is added to DDMC, a set of default administration properties (system model, DDOS version, domain name, and data center) is automatically added. You can add and assign other properties as needed.

1. Select Administration > Properties.
2. At upper right, select one of the tabs (SYSTEM or REPLICATION), and click ADD (green plus sign).
3. In the Add Property dialog box, type a name for the property, and select its operation type:
   • String – Allows a string of up to 256 characters to be set when assigning the property, for example, you could name the property "Comments", and a user could enter "Waiting for Tom's response", "Not ready yet", as examples.
   • Boolean – Creates a condition where you can assign one of two values, for example, you could name the property "Restored?", and possible values could be "True" or "False", or "Yes" or "No".
   • Fixed-value String – Lets you provide a name and specific values for the property, for example, "Department" could be the name, and "Finance", "Human Resources", "Marketing" could be the values. Selecting the option Allow multiple types lets you assign more than one value.
4. Click ADD.
5. Assign values to the properties, as described in "Assigning Properties".