You must add the resources that you want to back up or clone. Depending on your environment, resources might be either database instances or collections that you want to back up or clone.

Before you begin

You must have completed tasks such as installing the SnapCenter Server, adding hosts, creating storage system connections, and adding credentials.
You must have created a custom plug-in.

created a custom plug-in for your application
You must have uploaded the plug-ins to SnapCenter Server.

Steps

In the left navigation pane, select Resources, and then select the appropriate plug-in from the list.
In the Resources page, select Add Resource.

In the Provide Resource Details page, perform the following actions:

For this field…	Do this…
Name	Enter the name of the resource.
Host name	Select the host.
Type	Select the type. Type is user defined as per the plug-in description file. For example, database and instance. In case the type selected has a parent, enter the details of the parent. For example, if the type is Database and the parent is Instance, enter the details of the Instance.
Credential name	Select Credential or create a new credential.
Mount Paths	Enter the mount paths where the resource is mounted. This is applicable only for a Windows host.

For this field…

Do this…

Name

Enter the name of the resource.

Host name

Select the host.

Type

Select the type. Type is user defined as per the plug-in description file. For example, database and instance.

In case the type selected has a parent, enter the details of the parent. For example, if the type is Database and the parent is Instance, enter the details of the Instance.

Credential name

Select Credential or create a new credential.

Mount Paths

Enter the mount paths where the resource is mounted. This is applicable only for a Windows host.

In the Provide Storage Footprint page, select a storage system and choose one or more volumes, LUNs, and qtrees, and then select Save.

Optional: Select the Plus icon icon to add more volumes, LUNs, and qtrees from other storage systems.

SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins does not support automatic discovery of the resources. The storage details of physical and virtual environments are also not discovered automatically. You must provide the storage information for physical and virtual environments while creating the resources.

In the Resource Settings page, provide custom key-value pairs for the resource.

Use the custom key-value pairs if you want to pass resource-specific information. For example, when you are using the MySQL plug-in, you must specify a HOST as HOST=hostname, PORT =port-no used for MySQL and master-slave configuration as MASTER_SLAVE = “YES” or “NO” (name is MASTER_SLAVE and value is “YES” or “NO”).

Ensure that the words HOST and PORT are in uppercase.
Review the summary, and then select Finish.

Result

The resources are displayed along with information such as type, host or cluster name, associated resource groups and policies, and overall status.

You must refresh the resources if the databases are renamed outside of SnapCenter.

After you finish

If you want to provide access to the assets to other users, the SnapCenter administrator must assign assets to those users. This enables users to perform the actions for which they have permissions on the assets that are assigned to them.

After adding the resources, you can modify the resource details. If a custom plug-in resource has backups associated with it, the following fields cannot be modified: resource name, resource type, and host name.