Getting off to a quick start

To start using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, you must complete steps that include defining the location of the resources that you want to protect and creating backup policies for those resources. This getting started section provides the basic steps to set up and start using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Before you start, ensure that the tasks that are listed in Product deployment roadmap are complete.

As shown in the following table, the initial installation and configuration tasks are completed by the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus infrastructure administrator. By default, the admin user account is created for use by the infrastructure administrator.

Then, hypervisor and database application backup and restore tasks are completed by the application administrator. However, a single administrator might be responsible for all tasks in your environment.

Action	Owner
Start IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	Infrastructure administrator and application administrator	The infrastructure administrator starts the application for the first time by using the default `admin` user account. The application administrator starts the application by using the user account that is created by the infrastructure administrator.
Create backup policies	Infrastructure administrator	Backup policies define the parameters that are applied to backup jobs. These parameters include the frequency and retention of backups and the options to replicate data from one vSnap server to another and to offload backup data to secondary backup storage for longer-term protection. Backup policies are called service level agreement (SLA) policies in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
Create a user account for the application administrator	Infrastructure administrator	User accounts determine the resources and functions that are available to the user.
Add resources to protect	Application administrator	Resources are servers for hypervisors or database applications that host data that you want to protect.
Add resources to a job definition	Application administrator	Job definitions associate the resources that you want to back up with one or more SLA policies. The options and schedules that are defined in the SLA policies are used for backup jobs for the resources.
Start a job	Application administrator	Jobs are started as defined in the SLA policy that is associated with the job definition. You can also manually start a job.
Run a report	Application administrator	IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides a number of predefined reports that you can run with default parameters or modify to create custom reports.