Enrolling a protected database enables a specific Recovery Appliance to receive backups from the protected database. This is a one-time task that must be performed the first time you set up a protected database to use Recovery Appliance. Enrolling requires steps to be performed on both the Recovery Appliance and the protected database.

Enrolling a protected database performs the following tasks:

• Configures credentials required for the protected database to access the Recovery Appliance

  The protected database administrator requires credentials to authenticate with the Recovery Appliance and perform backup and recovery operations. This is done by associating a protected database administrator user with a Recovery Appliance user (in the Recovery Appliance metadata database). These credentials are stored in an Oracle wallet that is created on the protected database.

• Defines recovery window goals and allocates reserved space on the Recovery Appliance by associating the protected database with an appropriate protection policy

• Grants access to the protected database to the Recovery Appliance user

• Registers the protected database with the Recovery Appliance catalog

  Metadata for protected database backups must be stored in the Recovery Appliance catalog. There are multiple virtual private catalogs within the Recovery Appliance catalog. You must specify the virtual private catalog owner that will manipulate metadata for this protected database.

• When you use Cloud Control, an Enterprise Manager administrator must be provided access to the named credentials that are used to connect to a Recovery Appliance from Cloud Control. Enterprise Manager administrators that administer backup and restore operations for the protected database need access to these credentials in order to connect to the Recovery Appliance when configuring protected databases to backup to and restore from the Recovery Appliance.