Setup Wizard overview

When you log in to the system for the first time, the Setup Wizard launches. The Setup Wizard enables easy configuration of the Unitrends system by providing step-by-step guidance to configure these subsystems:

Step

Description

Product registration

For UEB systems only, register your system. This Setup Wizard step does not display for physical systems.

Date and time

Set the system to the date and local time zone. The system is pre-configured for the time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00). You can also enable Internet time.

Hostname

Configure the hostname of the system.

Notifications

The system supports push and pull notifications. Configure push notifications (email via SMTP) in this step. You also have the option to receive a PDF version of many of the reports in the email.

Root password

Set the password for the administrative account of the Unitrends system. The system ships with default credentials. It is highly recommended that you change this password.

Users

Unitrends systems can be managed and monitored using different credential levels. This step provides the means to create users with different privilege levels to monitor and/or manage the system.

Installation type

Configure the system as a backup system, replication system, or a backup and replication system.

Note: Replication is supported on systems running release 7.0 and higher. Older releases use the legacy vaulting feature. In these systems the installation type is backup system, vault, or backup system and vault.

Expand storage

For Unitrends virtual systems, configure and attach additional backup storage.

Clients

Register all protected assets to the system.

Unitrends uses a common D2D backup and recovery engine to provide protection for over 100 different versions of operating systems, applications, and hypervisors. All protected environments are registered to the Unitrends system as clients.

Retention

Configure the system to balance retention and backup performance.