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Appliance settings

From the Configure > Appliances page, you can manage your backup appliance and its storage, backup copy targets, and network.

Preparing to manage the appliance

Before you begin, see the following topics to determine which features to configure and to gather associated required information.

Appliance network settings

During deployment, these network settings were configured for the appliance: IP address, subnet, gateway, and primary DNS:

The IP address and subnet enable communication between the appliance and other machines on your network.
The gateway enables communication between the appliance and machines on different subnets.
Appliance DNS settings are required for the following:
To connect the appliance to the Internet.
To add assets using only their hostnames (rather than by fully qualified domain names).
To add backup copy cloud targets to the appliance.
To update your appliance from the UI.
To access the Unitrends Community forums from the UI.

These settings can be modified as needed on the General tab of the Configure > Appliances > Edit Appliance page.

Email reporting

The appliance can be configured to send system, job, and failure reports via email. To receive email reports, you must configure the appliance to use your SMTP server and define email recipients. You will need to supply the following:

The fully qualified SMTP server name or its IP address. (If a DNS record has not been configured, you must use the IP address of the SMTP server.)
Username and password credentials if you have an externally-hosted SMTP server that requires authentication.
A valid test email address.
Destination email addresses where reports will be sent.

Users

Unitrends appliances are managed and monitored from the User Interface (UI). A user account is required to access the UI. By default, a superuser named root is created on the appliance, but you can create additional user accounts as needed.

Each user account is assigned a role that defines the types of operations the user can perform on the appliance. Supported roles are:

Role Description

Monitor

A user with this role is only able to view the status of operations, such as jobs, and to run reports. This user cannot create or start jobs or configure the system in any way.

Manage

A user with this role can view statuses and reports, start and view backup jobs, and perform other management tasks, such as adding or modifying assets and retention settings. However, this user cannot create or modify users other than modifying his or her own user account password.

Superuser

A user with this role, in addition to monitoring and managing systems, can add, edit, or delete users.

Administrator

This role is equivalent to the Superuser role in the current Satori interface. In the future this role will support the ability for a user to have different roles on different appliances.

Review these additional considerations before managing users:

User accounts can only be used to access the appliance for which they were created. Users are not shared across Unitrends appliances. To log in to another appliance, the user must be created directly on that system.
To modify users, you must be logged in to the UI as a user that has the administrator or superuser role. Users with monitor or manage roles can only see their own user account.
Assigning roles to Active Directory accounts is not supported. Any Active Directory users and roles configured in the Legacy UI can be used to log in and function in the new UI.
To add a user, you must supply a username, password, and role for the new user.

Date and time settings

During deployment, date and time settings were configured for the appliance. You can edit these settings as needed. You can manually set the date and time or sync to an NTP server. To use an NTP server, you will need to supply its address.

Encryption

Use encryption to protect data from unauthorized access and theft. All data remains encrypted until a request is made to recover the data. If the correct passphrases are in place, recovery proceeds without administrator involvement.

Unitrends encryption provides:

Encryption at the asset level
The ability to manage and change passphrases
Backup, backup copy, and recovery of encrypted data

Configure the appliance as a backup copy target

Configure the appliance as a backup copy target if you want to use it to store backups copied from another Unitrends appliance. Be aware that the appliance's backup storage is used to store the backup copies, so on-appliance retention of local backups will be impacted.

Note:  UEB on Hyper-V and UEB on VMware appliances can be used either as a backup appliance or as a backup copy target. These appliances cannot perform both roles. Recovery-Series and UEB installable software appliances can be used as both a backup appliance and a backup copy target, if desired.

License settings

You can add or modify the appliance license as needed.

Note:  Applying a license stops all running jobs.

Licensing procedures for physical Recovery-Series appliances differ from those for virtual UEB appliances:

Recovery-Series appliances are shipped fully licensed. It is likely you will never need to modify this license unless directed to do so by Unitrends Support. If you need to update a license, apply the license you receive from Unitrends.
UEB appliances are deployed without a license. After deploying the appliance, you must register and license it. Register the appliance as described in the UEB Deployment Guide for VMware or UEB Deployment Guide for Hyper-V. Then apply the license you receive from Unitrends.