You can only access remote hosts and clients if you have purchased and installed the appropriate Agent software.
Make sure you do not collapse the Remote Hosts branch if you are applying options to a remote host. You will lose all option settings for these nodes if you do.
Following are the basic steps for setting node options for a backup job:
Make sure the cursor is over the node you are specifying options for.
There are two different Node Options windows. The one you will see will depend upon whether you are setting node options for a server or client.
This is the Node Options window you will see for UNIX hosts:
This is the Node Options window you will see for NetWare file servers: