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When the Oracle RMAN agent is installed on the application host, you can use the Data Manager Appliance UI to add an Oracle RMAN agent for data protection, approve and reject pending agent requests, and edit and delete existing agents. Data Manager Appliance version 5.14.0.0 or later supports the installation or uninstallation of the Oracle RMAN agent, PowerProtect Data Manager agent, and BoostFS package during a single session using the root user.
After registering an application host with the Data Manager Appliance, you can use the Asset Sources window to discover an application host and modify the application host credentials. You must add credentials to the Oracle database so that the Data Manager Appliance can access the database to create backups.
Note: A new Oracle database discovery method is also supported, which uses the pmon process without a dependence on /etc/oratab entries. The /etc/oratab file entries have the highest precedence for the discovery of Oracle database resources on the system, which enables the Data Manager Appliance operations.
Data Manager Appliance supports the enhanced Oracle backups and restores in a high-availability Data Guard environment through the Data Manager Appliance UI and integrated Oracle RMAN agent workflows. Data Manager Appliance provides the Data Guard protection in either stand-alone mode or federated mode. Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for Oracle enterprise data.
After registering the Oracle host with the Data Manager Appliance, the host appears in the Asset Sources window and Oracle databases are available as assets in the Infrastructure > Assets section as shown in the following figure. When the asset discovery is complete, the Oracle database assets are discovered in the Infrastructure > Assets section.