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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing SQL Server objects for use with SQL Server Intelligent Policies
  4. About discovery of SQL Server objects
  5. Discover read-scale availability groups
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Discover read-scale availability groups

Read-scale availability groups are not discovered automatically. You must specify one of the replicas in the availability group and manually start discovery.

To discover read-scale availability groups

  1. Expand NetBackup Management > Applications > Microsoft SQL Server and select All Instances.
  2. In the right pane, right-click one of the replicas that is part of the availability group and click Register.
  3. Provide the credentials for the replica.

    See About registering SQL Server instances and availability group replicas .

  4. Expand NetBackup Management > Applications and select Microsoft SQL Server.
  5. Select Actions > Discover Availability Groups.
  6. From the Instance list, select a replica that is part of the availability group.

    Note that only registered replicas are shown in this list.

  7. Click OK.

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