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Sites & Providers Overview

Add Sites and providers ECX through the Sites & Providers Add Node icon view on the Configure Configure tab icon tab.

A site is a user-defined grouping of providers that is generally based on location, to help quickly identify and interact with data created through Copy Data Management jobs.

Sites are assigned when registering providers. When creating Backup and Restore jobs, sites clearly identify where your data is replicated by location.

Providers are physical servers that host objects and attributes. Once a provider is registered in ECX, cataloging, searching, and reporting can be performed.

Supported provider types are:

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Supported types include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud storage.
Application servers. Supported application database types include InterSystems Caché, Oracle, SAP HANA, and SQL. Use the File System application type to register file systems for physical servers running Windows, Linux, and AIX. See associated application requirements for supported storage types.
DPX providers. Register a Catalogic DPX™ provider to run DPX specific reports pertaining to nodes, storage, and status.
DellEMC storage systems. Supported types include DellEMC Unity.
IBM storage systems. Supported types include IBM Spectrum Accelerate, IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot, and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
LDAP servers. Register an LDAP server to enable LDAP users to be provisioned through a group import. LDAP also supports authentication using the sAMAccountName Windows user naming attribute or an associated e-mail address. Unlike storage systems and VMware servers, LDAP servers are not cataloged.
NetApp ONTAP storage systems. Supported types include NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode.
SQL and Oracle application servers. Supported storage platforms for Oracle include IBM storage systems running IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize Software version 7.3 and later, including IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, and IBM FlashSystem V9000 systems. Supported SQL Server versions include SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016 standalone and AlwaysON. Supported operating system platforms include Windows 2012R2, Windows 2016 running on vSphere VM using VMDK configuration.
Pure Storage systems. Supported storage platforms include Pure Storage FlashArray.
SMTP hosts. Register an SMTP server to enable email notifications from ECX. Unlike storage systems and VMware servers, SMTP servers are not cataloged.
VMware servers. Supported types includes vCenter and ESX/ESXi hosts.

Adding a provider requires specifying the user name and password of the provider.

Note: Users that register providers, such as storage devices, or add resources to ECX, such as jobs or customized reports, will have full access to interact with those providers or resources regardless of role-based access control restrictions. For example, if a user's permission allows them to register NetApp providers, they will also be able to view, edit, and unregister the NetApp providers that they registered, even if the necessary permissions are not assigned to them through role-based access control.