Application

SAP

Exchange

Data based on the software application running on the host.

Asset_Tag

0001234

0001235

For asset management purposes, perhaps you want to report on backup servers by asset tag.

Backup_Server

BackupServer1

BackupServer2

You will certainly want to report on backup servers/clients based on the backup server that backs up the backup server/clients’ user data. Backup Server is the most common attribute, which is why the Portal creates a default group to represent this characteristic.

Business_Unit

Marketing

Accounting

Backup servers/hosts often contain backups of data owned by users from specific business groups (for example, Marketing).

CPU

Opteron

UltraSPARC

If you need to know how your backups are performing on your backup servers with specific CPUs, simply run reports based on this attribute.

Location

 

Americas

Asia

If you are responsible for hosts in a region, you can select a scope for your region. It may make sense to set up host groups by geographical location or, as an alternative, create an attribute to group hosts by location.

Country_Code

004

248

You can be very specific about the location of hosts that you have spread throughout the world.

Host_Type

Production

Test Server

This attribute can represent production vs. test machines. Data on production systems is critical to your business. Test data is important, too, but you might want to know how data is being produced on your production systems particularly.

SysAdmin

Alix

Emily

Hosts are managed by this person.

OS

Linux

Windows

Mac

If you need to roll out patches for a particular operating system, you can quickly determine when the user data on those hosts will be backed up. Your values can be general or specific (for example, Solaris 10).