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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.

    If you are logging in to Backup and Recovery for the first time and have a system in the Console but no discovered resources, the Welcome to the new NetApp Backup and Recovery page appears with an option to Discover resources.

  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. Enter the host's FQDN or IP address, credentials, Console agent, and 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 or skip installation (you will need to manually install the plug-in on the host).

    3. Choose whether to perform pre-installation checks or to skip them.

  9. Select Discover.

    Tip This process might take a few minutes.
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.