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Discover Oracle Database workloads in NetApp Backup and Recovery

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Discovering Oracle databases enables NetApp Backup and Recovery to protect them by creating and restoring backups and snapshots.

Required Console role
Backup and Recovery super admin. Learn about Backup and recovery roles and privileges. Learn about NetApp Console access roles for all services.

Add an Oracle Database host and discover resources

Add Oracle host information and let NetApp Backup and Recovery discover workloads. Within each Console agent, select the systems where you want to discover workloads.

Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Protection > Backup and Recovery.

  2. Under Workloads, select the Oracle tile.

  3. Select Discover resources.

  4. Select Oracle for the Workload type field.

  5. If you haven't yet stored credentials for this Oracle Database host, select Add credentials.

    1. Select the Console agent to use with this host.

    2. Enter a name for this credential.

    3. Enter the user name and password for the account.

    4. Select Done.

  6. Host registration: Add a new Oracle Database host. In the Host FQDN or IP address field, enter the host's FQDN or IP address - for clustered databases you can enter the FQDN or IP of any node in the cluster. Then provide credentials, the Console agent, and the port number.

  7. (Optional) If you choose credentials for a non-root user, do the following:

    1. For instructions on how to add the non-root user you have selected to the sudoers file on the Oracle Database host, select Configure sudoers.

    2. Follow the instructions in the dialog, enable the checkbox when complete, and select Done.

  8. Advanced settings: Do the following:

    1. Enter the port and installation path to use for the NetApp plug-in. The plug-in enables communication between the Oracle Database host and NetApp Backup and Recovery.

    2. Choose whether to allow NetApp Backup and Recovery to install the plug-in automatically on each host or skip the automatic plug-in installation for all hosts. Select Show me how for manual installation instructions.

      Note

      Backup and Recovery connects to each host via SSH to install the plug-in automatically. Enable Use manual installation when any of the following apply:

      • One or more hosts are not running the SSH service.

      • Any host already has the NetApp plug-in (including if only some cluster members do).

      • You prefer to install the plug-in on each host manually.

    3. If the database host is clustered, enable the Add all hosts in the cluster option to discover all hosts in the cluster.

    4. Choose whether to run pre-installation checks on each host before automatically installing the plug-in. If checks fail, automatic plug-in installation stops. To bypass the checks and install anyway, enable Skip optional preinstall checks (enabled automatically if you choose manual installation).

  9. Select Discover.

    Tip Adding resources can take several minutes. To see the progress, select Track progress in the status dialog at the bottom of the Inventory page or select Monitoring from the left-side menu.
Result

The Oracle Database workload is displayed in the list of workloads on the Inventory page.

Continue to the NetApp Backup and Recovery Dashboard

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Protection > Backup and recovery.

  2. Select a workload tile (for example, Microsoft SQL Server).

  3. From the Backup and Recovery menu, select Dashboard.

  4. Review the health of data protection. The number of at risk or protected workloads increases based on the newly discovered, protected, and backed up workloads.