Adding a spoke server

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After you configure the hub server for the Operations Center, you can add one or more spoke servers to the hub server.

Before you begin

Communication from the spoke server must be secured by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. To enable secure communication, the certificate of the spoke server must be added to the truststore file of the hub server. To enable other functions of the Operations Center, such as the automatic deployment of client updates, the certificate of the hub server must be added to the truststore file of the spoke server, and the hub server must be defined on the spoke server. You can manually exchange certificates between the hub and the spoke servers. For more information, see Securing communication between the hub server and a spoke server in the IBM® Storage Protect documentation.

Procedure

  1. On the Operations Center menu bar, click Servers.
    In the table on the Servers page, a server might have a status of Unmonitored. This status means that although an administrator defined this server to the hub server by using the DEFINE SERVER command, the server is not yet configured as a spoke server.
  2. Complete one of the following steps:
    • Click the server to highlight it, and in the table menu bar, click Monitor Spoke.
    • If the server that you want to add is not shown in the table, click Add iconSpoke in the table menu bar.
  3. Provide the necessary information, and complete the steps in the spoke configuration wizard.
    Note: If the event-record retention period of the IBM Storage Protect server is less than 14 days, the period is automatically reset to 14 days if you configure the server as a spoke server.