Veritas™ System Recovery 23 Manager

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Product(s): System Recovery (23.0)

Adding a remote computer to All Computers

Before you can manage and monitor the backup protection status for a remote computer, you must add the remote computer to All Computers.

To add remote computers to All computers

  1. On the Veritas System Recovery Manager console, under View Options, click Add Computer.

    See Icons on the Veritas System Recovery Manager console.

  2. In the Hostname or IP address field, type the name or the IP address of the computer that you want to add.

    For more information about controlling access to the Veritas System Recovery, see the Veritas™ System Recovery User's Guide.

  3. In the Username field, type the user name for an account that has appropriate permissions to access the backup protection status of the computer.
  4. In the Password field, type the password for the user account.
  5. In the Confirm Password field, type the password again to confirm it.
  6. Click Add.

    Note:

    Select the Check for Linux Machine check box if you are using Linux computer.

See Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers.

To add multiple remote computers to All Computers, you can import a text file that contains the IP address of all the Windows and Linux remote computers.

To import a text file

  1. Select and configure the domain account and password in the Settings pane. See Configuring Veritas System Recovery Manager default options.
  2. Create a text file that contains the IP addresses of the both Windows and Linux remote computers that you want to manage and monitor.

    Note:

    In the text file, you should provide in the following format ''IP address, 0'' for Windows computer and ''IP address, 1'' for Linux computer.

    For e.g.

    xx.xx.xx.xx,0

    yy.yy.yy.yy,0

    zz.zz.zz.zz,1

  3. On the Veritas System Recovery Manager console, click Import Text file to add multiple Computers.
  4. Browse to select the text file that contains the IP addresses of the remote computers.
  5. Click OK.