Managing sources

An AWS subscription for which HYCU for AWS provides data protection consists of one or more AWS accounts that you add to HYCU for AWS as sources.

You can perform the following tasks related to sources:

Task Instructions
Add an AWS account. “Adding accounts”
Edit an existing AWS account. “Editing accounts”
Remove an AWS account that you no longer need. “Removing accounts”

To access the Sources dialog box, click  Administration in the toolbar, and then select Sources.

Adding accounts

If you have the required permissions granted, you can add accounts.

Procedure

  1. In the Sources dialog box, click  New.

  2. Enter the account ID, and optionally a display name.

    Click Add.

  3. Click Create IAM Role. The AWS Management Console opens.

    i Important  You must be logged on to AWS Management Console with the account that you are adding to HYCU for AWS. If you are already logged in to AWS Management Console with a different account when you create the IAM roles, the creation fails.

  4. In the AWS Management Console, on the Quick create stack page, confirm the capabilities required by HYCU for AWS by clicking I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names and then click Create stack.

  5. Return to the HYCU for AWS web user interface and click Save.

    The account is added to the list of sources.

Editing accounts

Procedure

  1. In the Sources dialog box, from the list of account IDs, select the one that you want to edit, and then click  Edit.

  2. Edit the display name and click Save.

Removing accounts

You can at any time remove sources that you no longer need.

Consideration

Removing the account from HYCU for AWS does not delete any IAM resources that were created in the .

Procedure

  1. In the Sources dialog box, from the list of account IDs, select the one that you want to remove from HYCU for AWS, and then click  Remove.

  2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the selected account.