To add hosts to an IMS

1. Prerequisites

   Ensure that you understand the use cases and prerequisites for adding hosts to an IMS.

   See About adding host assets to an IMS.

   See Prerequisites for adding hosts to an IMS.

2. Navigate

   	Settings (menu bar) > Infrastructure
   	You can also access this page from the Quick Actions menu.

3. Under the data center, locate the IMS and click Manage Asset Infrastructure.
4. On the IMS Settings page, click Host to view information on already added hosts, then click Add Hosts.

   Or to go directly to the Add Hosts wizard, click Add Hosts in the Settings page menu bar.

5. In the wizard, select the installation option that corresponds to the platform of the hosts. The appropriate host package is automatically installed on the hosts by the IMS if you continue with the Add Host operation.

   • If the host package is already present on the host that is being added, select None.

   • If you select Install managed host package on Linux/Unix, the Use root password option is enabled. Select this option if you want to install the host package on a Linux/Unix host as a non-root user. Provide the non-root username, non-root password, and root password for the specified host. You can use this option if the Secure Shell (SSH) access is disabled for the root login on the host where you want to install the host package.

   • Before you can add the first Windows host to the IMS, you must manually install the host package on the host. Then add the host using the None option in this wizard.

     See Installing the host package on a Windows host.

     After the first Windows host is added, to add more Windows hosts, run the wizard again and select Install managed host package on Windows. Then, for Select Windows Managed Host, select the host added previously. If there are multiple Windows hosts listed, you can select any one.

6. Choose from the following methods of adding a host:

   • Type the information on the table row. To add a blank table row, click Add.

   • Click Clone to clone the selected table row, and then edit the clone.

   • To import the information from a CSV file, click Import.

7. Verify that the host has been added successfully.
8. In the Recent tasks pane, verify that the Install add-on tasks for the Veritas Resiliency Platform Enablement add-on, and Veritas Resiliency Platform Applications Enablement add-on are successfully completed on the host.