Creating a Data Store

A data store identifies one or more protectors.

1: Adding Allowed Servers for the Data Store
2: Adding Policies to the Data Store
3: Adding Trusted Applications to the Data Store

You create data stores to specify the protectors in your enterprise to which you want to deploy policies and trusted applications. The protectors are identified by their IP address which must be unique across the enterprise. Using the data store, you can define the list of protector nodes that can pull the packages. A data store consists of information on policies and trusted applications. You can create a default data store that deploys polices to the protectors that are not a part of the allowed servers list of any data store. Thus, when a new protector is added that is not a part of any data store, the protector inherits the policy information pertaining to the default data store.

You cannot create data stores with the same names in the data store name. You can create only one default data store for a single instance of ESA.

To create a data store:

On the ESA Web UI, navigate to Policy Management > Data Stores.
The list of all the data stores appear.
Click Add New Data Store.
The New Data Store screen appears.
Enter a unique name identifying the data store in the Name textbox.
The maximum length of the data store name is 55 characters.
Enter the description describing the data store in the Description textbox.
Click the Select as Default Data Store option.
If a default data store already exists and you are updating another data store as the default data store, then the following message appears.
A default Data Store already exists, Please confirm to make this the new default Data Store.
Click Ok.
Click Save.

A message Data Store has been created successfully appears.

The following tabs are visible after the data store has been saved, as per the type of data store:

The Policies and Trusted Applications tabs are visible in case of a default data store.
The Allowed Servers, Policies, and Trusted Applications tabs are visible in case of a non-default data store.

You can also create a Data Store using the Policy Management REST API.

1 - Adding Allowed Servers for the Data Store

For a data store, you can specify the allowed servers using the Allowed Servers tab. Allowed servers specify either the IP addresses for the range of servers or a single server IP address.

Specifying Allowed Servers for the Data Store

This section describes the steps to specify allowed servers for a data store.

To specify allowed servers for a data store:

On the ESA Web UI, navigate to Policy Management > Data Stores.
The list of all the data stores appear.
From the Allowed Servers tab for the data store, click Add.
The Add Allowed Servers screen appears.
If you want to add a single server, then select Single Server and specify the server IP address.
If you want to add a range of servers, then Multiple Servers. Enter the range in the From and To text boxes.
Click Add.

The servers are added to the list

2 - Adding Policies to the Data Store

You add a policy to a data store before deploying it to remote protection points.

To add policy to a data store:

On the ESA Web UI, navigate to Policy Management > Data Stores .
The list of all the data stores appear.
Select the data store.
The screen to edit the data store appears.
Click the Policies tab.
Click Add.
The list of policies created appear.
Select the policies.
Click Add.

A message Selected Polices have been added to the Data Store successfully appears.

For more information on creating policies, refer to section Creating and Deploying Policies.

3 - Adding Trusted Applications to the Data Store

You can add a trusted application to a data store before deploying it to remote protection points.

To add trusted application to a data store:

On the ESA Web UI, navigate to Policy Management > Data Stores .
The list of all the data stores appear.
Select the data store.
The screen to edit the data store appears.
Click the Trusted Applications tab.
Click Add.
The list of trusted applications created appear.
Select the trusted applications.
Click Add.

A message Selected Trusted Applications have been added to the Data Store successfully appears.