Collection of backup and restore data
In most cases, a single instance of a centralized Data Collector can support any number of enterprise objects. However, each environment has its own unique deployment configuration requirements, so it is important to understand where the Data Collector software must be installed so that you can determine how many Data Collectors must be installed and which servers are best suited for the deployment. It is also important to understand that you might have a combination of distributed and centralized Data Collectors, particularly if you are collecting data from other third-party subsystems. A distributed Data Collector embedded by default on a NetBackup Primary Server can only be used to collect data from NetBackup or Alta.
Where you install the Data Collector also depends on the backup solution. For NetBackup 10.1.1 and later, a Data Collector is already pre-installed and embedded on the NetBackup Primary Server. Since the Data Collector is pre-installed, you simply need to configure and register the Data Collector, as its binaries are preinstalled.