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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section X. Detection and reporting
  4. Malware scanning
  5. Configuring a scan host pool
  6. Add a new host in a scan host pool
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Add a new host in a scan host pool

Use this procedure to add a new scan host in the scan host pool that is configured. See the following topic for prerequisites.

See Prerequisites for scan host pool.

To add a new host in a scan host pool

  1. On the left, click Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
  2. Click Malware detection page, click Malware detection settings > Manage malware scanner host pools on the top-right corner.
  3. On the Malware scanner host pools page, select the desired scan host pool and click Manage hosts from the action menu.
  4. On the Manage scanner hosts page, click Add new.
  5. (Applicable only for Agentless scan host) On the Add scanner host to scanner host pool <Host pool name> page, enter Host name.

    (Applicable only for NetBackup client as the scan host) On the pop up window, select one or more clients which you want to add.

  6. (Applicable only for Agentless scan host)

    • Click on Select existing credential or Add a new credential.

      See Managing credentials for malware scanning.

    • Select the media server to validate credentials.

    • Click on Validate credentials. On successful validation, click Save to save the credentials.

    • Select from the following options:

      • To save the credentials and validate the configuration later, click Save.

        See Validating the scan host pool configuration.

      • To save the credentials and immediately validate the configuration, click Save and validate configuration.

Note:

By default three parallel scans are supported per scan host and this limit is configurable. Having more scan hosts in the scan pool increases the number of parallel scans.

See Configure resource limits for malware detection.

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