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To add an IMS

1. Prerequisites

   • A Resiliency Manager and resiliency domain must be set up using the Getting Started wizard.

     See Getting started with a new Resiliency Platform configuration.

   • The virtual appliance for the IMS must be deployed and configured.

   • If the IMS is in AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud data center, ensure that the IMS has an IAM role with all the required permissions attached to it.

     AWS: See Permissions required for IAM roles for Resiliency Manager, IMS, and Replication Gateway.

     GCP:See API permissions required for Google Cloud Platform.

     Note:

     Resiliency Platform create rules in AWS cloud to perform the real-time discovery. Make sure to delete the rules at the time of removing IMS or deleting the Resiliency Platform infrastructure.

   • Information needed for adding the IMS:

     Provide hostname.

     The admin user credentials for the IMS virtual appliance. This information is optional and you need to enter only if the server is directly accessible.

     If the server is not directly accessible, you can still initiate the process of adding an IMS by entering only the data center, friendly name, and FQDN/IP address. In this case, you get a registration URL which you have to use after logging in to the virtual appliance console of the IMS that you want to add and then the IMS is added to the data center.

   • Ensure that the IP address and hostname of the IMS gets resolved from the Resiliency Manager.

2. Navigate to Settings (menu bar) > Infrastructure > Details View and then Select + Infrastructure Management Server.

   You can also access this page from the Quick Actions menu > Manage Asset Infrastructure.

3. In Add Infrastructure Management Server, enter the information for the IMS and submit.

   Tips:

   You can select from a list of existing data centers or add a new data center.

   See How Infrastructure Management Servers relate to data centers.

   • To specify a new data center, select New in the Data Center field, then specify the location and name. When entering the location, enter a form of location identifier, such as city, and the location list will populate with potential matches for you to select.

   • Enter a friendly name for the IMS.

   • Enter the FQDN or IP address of the server.

   • Enter the user name and the password. These two are optional information that you need to enter only if the IMS is directly accessible. If you provide this information, the IMS is immediately added to the data center.

     If you do not provide the username and password of the IMS, a registration URL is displayed on the screen. This URL is valid only for 30 minutes. if the URL expires, you need to regenerate the registration URL to complete the process.

     See Regenerating registration URL for an IMS.

     Copy the URL string and then log in to the virtual appliance console of the IMS. In the klish menu, run the following command:

     manage > configure ims_register

     See Klish menu options for IMS.

     You are prompted to provide the IMS registration URL. Enter the URL that you had obtained after initiating the process from Resiliency Manager console.

4. Verify that the IMS is successfully added.

   Once the IMS is successfully added, you can add the asset infrastructure to the IMS.

   See Adding the asset infrastructure.

   Note:

   When the IMS is connected to a RM in it's own datacenter, that IMS is displayed alongside the RM in the same row on the UI. However, when the IMS is connected to a RM in another datacenter, that IMS is displayed in a row below the RM.

5. If you add an IMS to an existing data center after the DNS settings for the data center have been configured, go to the DNS settings for the data center, select the modify option for the DNS server, enter a test host name and IP address, and run a test. This ensures that this newly added IMS can be used to perform DNS updates.

   See Configuring DNS server settings for a data center.