Navigation
The navigation panel is the primary method for navigating within the Unitrends Administrator Interface. System information is organized in a tree consisting of customers, locations, vaults, systems, and clients (a client is typically a customer's server.) This is depicted by the following icons:
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The root of the tree is entitled "Customers." Under that root is each customer that has access rights to the system. Customers have one or more locations. You can control the visibility of customers and their locations by clicking the icon at the bottom of the pane. |
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Each customer has one or more "Locations." Locations have the following navigation attributes: zero or more vaults and one or more systems. Vaults and systems are depicted hierarchically as peers regardless of the vaulting relationship among them. |
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A customer's location may have zero or more vaults. A vaults allows online archival for one or more systems. |
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A customer's location may have one or more managed systems. If you have a managed system, you should also see a system (see the next item) that corresponds to it. A managed system is a logical role of the actual system; it acts as the vehicle by which multiple systems may be monitored and managed in the interface without those systems having a relationship with a vault. |
A customer's location may have one or more systems. A system provides online backup services for one or more clients of that system (a system client is typically a customer's server.) | |
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A system may have one or more "Clients" (a system client is typically a customer's server.) |
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A Client will have an "Exchange" node if the Exchange agent (the version that that uses Microsoft's VSS technology) is installed on the customer's Exchange server. Selecting this element enables the user to backup or schedule backups for a Microsoft Exchange server. |
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A Client will have a "SQL Server" node if the SQL Server agent (the version that that uses Microsoft's VSS technology) is installed on the customer's SQL Server client. Selecting this element enables the user to backup or schedule backups for Microsoft SQL Server. |
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A "vCenter-RRC" client will be shown if the user has added the special virtualization client to their system. This Client is the "container" for the vCenter or ESX servers that have virtual machines that are to be backed up using the Unitrends Virtualization Protector. |
The "vCenter-RRC" Client will have one or more nodes for the servers that are configured through the "vCenter-RRC" client. If the user adds ESX servers that are not managed by a vCenter server, they will appear as a server node in the navigational pane. Otherwise, vCenter servers appear in the navigational pane. Selecting these nodes enables the user to backup or schedule backups for VMware virtual machines. | |
The "Hyper-V" Client will have one or more nodes for Hyper-V servers. If the user adds Hyper-V servers that are not part of a cluster, they will appear as a server node in the navigational pane. | |
The "Hyper-V" Client designated as a cluster client will appear as a cluster node in the navigational pane. |
Selecting navigation elements provides different services based on the activity that has been selected in the top-level menu (e.g., Restore/Status, Settings, and the like). User accounts with 'Monitor' privileges do not have access to Backup, Restore, Archive, and Storage services.
Since multiple systems are being monitored and managed, it is possible for one or more systems to be either partially disabled or offline. If this is the case you will see another icon:
| If this symbol is found to the right of one of the icons listed above then that system has not been completely loaded. In addition, this symbol is used at the bottom of the pane as an indicator that one or more systems have not been loaded; more information is available both via a tooltip and via clicking this icon at the bottom of the pane. |
Finally, there are two icons at the bottom of the pane. The right icon may be used to attempt to reload all monitored and managed systems. It is useful not only when incomplete system loading warnings are displayed but also when a new system has been added that will be monitored and managed or there have been new events (e.g., backups completing) that may have occurred during the session. This icon must be used to reload this type of data from the system. The left icon at the bottom of the navigation tree is used to set user preferences for displaying customers/locations, and the system client.