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  2. NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances Hardening Guide
  3. Steps to protect Flex Appliance
  4. Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the web UI
  5. Configuring the reverse connections
NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances Hardening Guide

Configuring the reverse connections

Before you add reverse connections from the IRE storage server to production storage server, ensure that NBCA or ECA are configured on the IRE storage server for the production domain.

To configure the reverse connections

  1. On the left, click Storage > Disk storage.
  2. Click the Storage servers tab.
  3. Click on the MSDP storage server that you want to configure.
  4. Under Isolated Recovery Environment > Reverse connections, click Add reverse connection.
  5. On the Add reverse connection page, provide the production primary server name.
  6. Select the existing login credentials or add new credentials and click Next.
    • Select existing credentials: Select the existing credentials.

    • Add a new credential: Add a new credential for the production primary server. Under Credential type, select Username Password authentication or Use API key.

      Note:

      The user of the production primary server needs privileges in the default IRE SLP Administrator role.

  7. Click Connect.
  8. On the next page, select Remote MSDP storage server.

    You can select an MSDP storage server from the production domain. If the MSDP storage server has multiple network interfaces configured and you want the reverse connection, use another interface rather than the storage server name. You can type the FQDN of the network interface for the production MSDP storage server.

  9. In the Local interface field, provide the local storage server interface name for data transmission.

    If the IRE MSDP server has multiple interfaces and you want the IRE MSDP server to use a specific interface to connect to the production MSDP storage server, type the FQDN of the network interface for the IRE MSDP storage server.

    If nothing is specified in Local interface field, IRE MSDP server uses the default network interface to connect to the production storage server.

  10. Click Add.

    A reverse connection is configured from the IRE MSDP server to the production MSDP server.

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