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title: Register infrastructure hosts | Tiger Data Docs
description: Connect the TimescaleDB Enterprise console to the Linux hosts that run your database
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## Prerequisites

- Prereq 1
- Prereq 2
- Prereq 3

## Register a host

1. **Add the database host**
2. **Authorize the console's SSH key**
3. **Open the required ports**
4. **Test the connection**
5. **Register a backup host (optional)**