About hosts for Enterprise Vault policies

When you add a client to a policy the client must be an Enterprise Vault server. For all Enterprise Vault 8.0 backup selection types, the recommended client name is Enterprise Vault Site alias or Any Enterprise Vault Server alias.

Table: Enterprise Vault 7.5 client name recommendations shows the Enterprise Vault 7.5 client name recommendations for a policy client.

Table: Enterprise Vault 7.5 client name recommendations

Backup selection

Recommendation for Client name

EV_SITE

Enterprise Vault Site alias

EV_SERVER

Enterprise Vault Server alias

EV_DIR_DB

Enterprise Vault Site alias or Enterprise Vault Server alias

EV_MON_DB

Enterprise Vault Site alias or Enterprise Vault Server alias

Others

Enterprise Vault Server alias

Note:

For Enterprise Vault 8.0 the same client name is used across all of the policies to protect an Enterprise Vault site.

For more information about Enterprise Vault site and server aliases, see the Symantec Enterprise Vault Administrator's Guide.