System setup

Set the system to the date and local time zone. The system is pre-configured for the time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00). You can also enable Internet time.

Configure the hostname of the system.

The system supports push and pull notifications. Configure push notifications (email via SMTP) in this step. You also have the option to receive a PDF version of many of the reports in the email.

Set the password for the administrative account of the Unitrends system. The system ships with default credentials. It is highly recommended that you change this password.

Unitrends systems can be managed and monitored using different credential levels. This step provides the means to create users with different privilege levels to monitor and/or manage the system.

Configure the system as a backup system, replication system, or a backup and replication system.

Note:  Replication is supported on systems running release 7.0 and higher. Older releases use the legacy vaulting feature. In these systems the installation type is backup system, vault, or backup system and vault.

For some client types, you must install a light-weight agent before registering the client to the Unitrends system.

Register all protected assets to the system.

Unitrends uses a common D2D backup and recovery engine to provide protection for over 100 different versions of operating systems, applications, and hypervisors. All protected environments are registered to the Unitrends system as clients.