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  2. IT Analytics Help
  3. Section IX. Data Protection
  4. Configuration for EMC Data Domain backup
  5. Add EMC data domain servers

Add EMC data domain servers

Add or edit EMC Data Domain servers to IT Analytics directly from the data collector policy window or through the Inventory.

See Manage objects in the inventory list view.

Note:

When adding an EMC Data Domain Server, in the Inventory select Hosts, not Backup Servers.

  1. Add a host for each Data Domain server.

    • External Host Name - Displayed in the Portal.

    • Internal Host Name - Must match the host name of the Data Domain server; fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

    • Backup Type - Data Domain Server

  2. If collecting File-Level Compression data, refer to the following section.

    See Add an EMC data domain backup Data Collector policy.

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