An asset source must be enabled in
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance before you can add and register the asset source for the protection of assets.
About this task
Only the
Administrator role can manage asset sources.
In some circumstances, the enabling of multiple asset sources is required. For example, a vCenter Server and a Kubernetes cluster asset source must be enabled for Tanzu Kubernetes guest cluster protection.
There are other circumstances where enabling an asset source is not required, such as the following:
For application agents and other agents such as
File System and Storage Direct, an asset source is enabled automatically when you register and approve the agent host. For example, if you have not enabled an Oracle asset source but have registered the application host though the API or the
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance user interface,
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance automatically enables the Oracle asset source.
When you update to the latest version of
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance from an earlier release, any asset sources that were previously enabled appear in the
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance user interface. On a new deployment, however, no asset sources are enabled by default.
Steps
From the
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance user interface, select
Infrastructure > Asset Sources, and then click
+ to reveal the
New Asset Source tab.
In the pane for the asset source that you want to add, click
Enable Source.
The
Asset Sources window updates to display a tab for the new asset source.
Results
You can now add or approve the asset source for use in
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. For a vCenter server, Kubernetes cluster, SMIS Server, or PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager tenant, select the appropriate tab in this window and click
Add. For an application host, select
Infrastructure > Application Agents and click
Add or
Approve as required.
NOTE Although you can add a Cloud Snapshot Manager tenant to
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance in order to view its health, alerts, and the status of its protection, recovery, and system jobs, you cannot manage the protection of its assets from
PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. To manage the protection of its assets, use Cloud Snapshot Manager.
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