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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 File System User Guide

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Enable an asset source

An asset source must be enabled in PowerProtect Data Manager 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, 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 agent host through the API or the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface, PowerProtect Data Manager automatically enables the Oracle asset source.
  • When you update to the latest version of PowerProtect Data Manager from an earlier version, any asset sources that were previously enabled appear in the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface. On new deployments, no asset sources are enabled by default.

Steps

  1. From the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface, select Infrastructure > Asset Sources, and then click + to reveal the New Asset Source tab.
  2. 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. For a vCenter server, Kubernetes cluster, 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 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. To manage the protection of its assets, use Cloud Snapshot Manager. For more information, see the PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager Online Help.

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