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Create Agentless SRM Policy

Enter client names for Agentless SRM Policies

Setup Managed Clients on Windows Manually

Setup Managed Clients on Windows Automatically

Setup Managed Clients on UNIX Manually

Setup Managed Clients on UNIX Automatically

Schedule Agentless SRM policies

Create Agentless SRM Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create Agentless SRM Policy:

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Policies and right-click on Agentless SRM policy node, and Add New Agentless SRM Policy. This launches the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard.
2. Add a Name for the policy and click Next.
3. Select the Client Computers' operating system, Windows or UNIX.
4. Select one of the options for how the computers should be identified for installation:
   • Manually select computers
   • Automatically discover computers

   Exclude Discovery of computers with SRM agents already installed

   Allows excluding the computers with SRM Agents already installed from being discovered.

   Force Collection of Previously failed clients

   Allows discovering clients that earlier failed from discovery.

   Data Collection Options

   Allows selecting what type of data will be collected in the Agentless policy being created.

5. Enter the target client names, you can do so using the following options:
   • Enter one client in each line in the space provided.
   • Import from File: Select the file from which you want to retrieve the client information and click Select File.

     When using "Import from File" option to specify clients for Agentless policy, the text file containing list of client names must have valid host names entered e.g. yellow.company.com. Each client name must also be listed in a separate line in the text file.

   • Import From Active Directory: Select this option and enter the Active Directory Server information in the dialog box that follows and click OK.

     After making these selections click Next.

6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Enter client names for Agentless SRM Policies

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To Enter client names for Agentless Data Collection manually:

1. From the CommCell Browser expand Policies, right-click the Agentless SRM Policies and click Add New Agentless SRM Policy.
2. This opens the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard, enter a name for the Agentless Policy and click Next.
3. Select Windows and click Next.
4. Select one of the options for how the computers should be identified for installation:
   • Manually select computers
   • Automatically discover computers

   Exclude Discovery of computers with SRM agents already installed

   Allows excluding the computers with SRM Agents already installed from being discovered.

   Force Collection of Previously failed clients

   Allows discovering clients that earlier failed from discovery.

   Data Collection Options

   Allows selecting what type of data will be collected in the Agentless policy being created.

5. Enter the target client names one in each line in the space provided and click Next.
6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Setup Managed Clients on Windows Manually

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To setup Managed Clients on Windows manually:

1. From the CommCell Browser expand Policies, right-click the Agentless SRM Policies and click Add New Agentless SRM Policy.
2. This opens the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard, enter a name for the Agentless Policy and click Next.
3. Select Windows and click Next.
4. Select Manually select clients for manually specifying the client information and click Next.
5. Enter Host Name of the computers where Agentless Data Collection will be configured using one of the following options:
   • Import from File: Select the file from which you want to retrieve the client information and click Select File.

     When using "Import from File" option to specify clients for Agentless policy, the text file containing list of client names must have valid host names entered e.g. yellow.company.com. Each client name must also be listed in a separate line in the text file.

   • Import From Active Directory: Select this option and enter the Active Directory Server information in the dialog box that follows and click OK.
6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Setup Managed Clients on Windows Automatically

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To setup Managed Clients on Windows automatically:

1. From the CommCell Browser expand Policies, right-click the Agentless SRM Policies and click Add New Agentless SRM Policy.
2. This opens the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard, enter a name for the Agentless Policy and click Next.
3. Select Windows and click Next.
4. Select Automatically discover clients for automatically detecting the clients available in the specified domain and click Next.
5. From the dialog box that opens, click Add and enter the Active Directory Server information in the dialog box that follows and click OK.
6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Setup Managed Clients on UNIX Manually

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To setup Managed Clients on UNIX manually:

1. From the CommCell Browser expand Policies, right-click the Agentless SRM Policies and click Add New Agentless SRM Policy.
2. This opens the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard, enter a name for the Agentless Policy and click Next.
3. Select Unix and Linux and click Next.
4. Select Manually select clients for manually specifying the client information and click Next.
5. Enter Host Name of the computers where Agentless Data Collection will be configured using one of the following options:
   • Import from File: Select the file from which you want to retrieve the client information and click Select File.
   • Import From Directory Service: Select this option and enter the Directory Service Server Information in the dialog box that follows and click OK.

     If you select NIS for UNIX, all selected clients must have a user with root privileges created on each of the clients with same password. If a SUDO user has been created for root access, the following commands must be added for Agentless clients: Linux - /sbin/fdisk, /sbin/vgdisplay, /usr/sbin/exportfs, /usr/bin/rpm, /usr/sbin/parted, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint Solaris - /usr/sbin/format, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint, /usr/sbin/psrinfo, /usr/sbin/prtvtoc, /usr/sbin/repquota, /usr/sbin/metastat AIX - /usr/sbin/repquota, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint HPUX - /usr/sbin/ioscan, /usr/sbin/diskinfo, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint, /usr/sbin/repquota

6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Setup Managed Clients on UNIX Automatically

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To setup Managed Clients on UNIX automatically:

1. From the CommCell Browser expand Policies, right-click the Agentless SRM Policies and click Add New Agentless SRM Policy.
2. This opens the Agentless SRM Policy Wizard, enter a name for the Agentless Policy and click Next.
3. Select Unix and Linux and click Next.
4. Select Automatically discover clients for automatically detecting the clients available in the specified domain and click Next.
5. From the dialog box that opens, click Add and enter the Directory Service Server Information in the dialog box that follows and click OK.

   If you select NIS for UNIX, all selected clients must have a user with root privileges created on each of the clients with same password. If a SUDO user has been created for root access, the following commands must be added for Agentless clients: Linux - /sbin/fdisk, /sbin/vgdisplay, /usr/sbin/exportfs, /usr/bin/rpm, /usr/sbin/parted, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint Solaris - /usr/sbin/format, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint, /usr/sbin/psrinfo, /usr/sbin/prtvtoc AIX - /usr/sbin/repquota, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint HPUX - /usr/sbin/ioscan, /usr/sbin/diskinfo, /usr/sbin/vxdisk, /usr/sbin/vxprint

6. From the list of available clients, select a Proxy client that has SRM File System Agent installed.
7. Click Next and enter the Username and Password to be used for installing the client.
8. Click Next to view the Summary screen.
9. Click Finish.

Schedule Agentless SRM Policies

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To schedule an exiting SRM Agentless Policy:

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Policies and select Agentless SRM Policies.
2. In the main window right-click the Policy that needs to be scheduled and click Create Schedule.
3. In the Job Initiation dialog box, choose Immediate or Schedule.

If you have selected the Run Immediately option, you can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window.

4. Click Configure and select the required scheduling options.
5. Click OK.

For more information on Scheduling, see Scheduling.

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