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Add New Machines

You can connect a new machine to the CMS or a gateway even if it does not yet have the CA Data Protection infrastructure installed. There are three ways to add new machines:

New client machines are added automatically

In the CMS machine policy, you can configure the Account Handling for New Client Machines setting to automatically create a new account for any client machine not registered with the CMS. When the CA Data Protection infrastructure next starts on that machine, a new account is created automatically and added to the CA Data Protection machine hierarchy.

Important! CA Data Protection cannot automatically create accounts for machines whose names contain Far Eastern characters.

Administrators add new machines

To manually add new client machines or gateways

1. Choose Manage > Machine Administration or click .
2. Select the CMS or an existing gateway . This will be the parent server for the new machine.
3. Choose Edit, New Machine or click .
4. In the Assign Machine dialog:
   • Enter the computer name or click Browse to search your network.
   • Specify whether the new machine is a Gateway or Client.

Import machine accounts

You can also import machine details from an external source using Account Import.

More information:

Managing Machine Accounts