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When to import external relationships

You can use the External Relationships window to import a discovered relationship when you have identified that the relationship is not managed by the NetApp Management Console data protection capability.

After you import external relationships, the NetApp Management Console data protection capability takes over the management of data protection schedules and policies, and it disables the schedules and policies that were previously managed by other applications.

If you import a Volume SnapMirror relationship into the NetApp Management Console data protection capability, the original mirror schedule is preserved. The NetApp Management Console data protection capability monitors the relationship but does not execute the schedule.

You can also import external relationships in the following situations:

There are two additional ways of handling existing SnapVault relationships. In both cases, these relationships are listed in the External Relationships window.