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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 advanced or basic availability groups on demand
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Discover advanced or basic availability groups on demand

You can manually start the NetBackup discovery process if you want to immediately discover advanced or basic availability groups or replicas or discover databases in your environment. The instances or replicas must have credentials before you can perform on-demand discovery.

To discover advanced or basic availability groups

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

    Note that only registered replicas are shown in this list.

  4. Click OK.

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