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Create/Modify a Local File System Instance

Create/Modify a Celerra Instance

Create/Modify a Network File Shares Instance

Create/Modify a FPolicy Instance

Set Stub Recovery Parameters

Use Account for Data Classification

Deconfigure a Client, MediaAgent, Agent, or Enabler

Delete the Agent

View the Software Version

Create/Modify a Local File System Instance

Before You Begin

• Review information about Instances - File Archiver before beginning this procedure.
• Only one Local File System instance can exist per File Archiver for Windows Agent.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Required Actions

To create/modify a Local File System Instance:

1. To create a Local File System instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the File Archiver agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click Create Instance from the shortcut menu, and then click Local File System.

   To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.

2. From the General tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
   
   When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
3. Click OK to save the instance.

    

   After creating a File Archiver instance, a default Archive Set is created for the instance type.  You cannot create additional Archive Sets. Default subclients are not created for the default Archive Set. You must create a user-defined subclient for the default archive set. See Subclients - File Archiver for Windows for more information.

Create/Modify a Celerra Instance

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Required Actions

To create/modify a Celerra Instance:

1. To create a Celerra instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the File Archiver agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click Create Instance from the shortcut menu, and then click Celerra.

   To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.

2. From the General tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
   
   When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the instance. However, you can change the file server name and credentials.
3. Enter a name for the Celerra file server - see Add/Change file server Name.
4. Enter the credentials for the proxy computer - see Configure file server/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
5. Enter Celera Proxy settings if you wish to change the defaults - see Configure Celerra Proxy Settings.
6. Click OK to save the instance.

Create/Modify a Network File Share Instance

Before You Begin

• Review information about Instances - File Archiver before beginning this procedure.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Required Actions

To create/modify a Network File Share Instance:

1. To create a Network File Share instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the File Archiver agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click Create Instance from the shortcut menu, and then click Network File Share.

   To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.

2. From the General tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
   
   When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
3. Enter a name for the NAS filer - see Add/Change Filer Name.
4. Enter the credentials for the NAS Filer - see Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
5. Click OK to save the instance.

Create/Modify a FPolicy Instance

Before You Begin

• Review information about Instances - File Archiver before beginning this procedure.
• Review FPolicy for prerequisite information

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Required Actions

To create/modify a FPolicy Instance:

1. To create a FPolicy instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click Create Instance from the shortcut menu, and then click FPolicy.

   To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.

2. From the General tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
   
   When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
3. Enter a name for the NetApp filer - see Add/Change Filer Name.
4. Enter the credentials for the NetApp Filer - see Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
5. Click OK to save the instance.

Set Stub Recovery Parameters

Before You Begin

• Review information about Recall Throttling before beginning this procedure.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To set stub recovery parameters:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate agent icon and then click Properties.
2. From the General tab of the Agent Properties dialog box, click the Stub Recovery Parameters option.
3. Select the appropriate value for the Maximum Stub Recovery field.

4. Select the appropriate value for the Time between recall to count as successive in seconds field.

5. Select the appropriate value for the Time to wait after maximum successive recalls limit is reached in seconds field.
6. Click OK, then either wait 5 minutes for the change to take effect or restart the GXHSM service for it to take effect immediately.

Use Account for Data Classification (Windows)

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To use/change a user account to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller to look up group membership:

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand the tree if necessary to view the desired enabler-level icon.
2. Right-click the agent icon and then click Properties from the short-cut menu.
3. From the General tab in the agent dialog box, click Authenticate Active Directory Domain Controller.
4. Type the domain name, user name, and password in the appropriate spaces.
5. Make any other desired changes and then click OK.

To use/change a user account to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller to look up a user or (if the authentication is not already saved) to look up group membership:

1. From the CommCell Browser, if you are creating a new DataClassSet (subclient), expand the tree if necessary to view the appropriate DataClassSet backupset-level icon. Then right-click the backup set, click All Tasks, click Create DataClassSet, and start to create the DataClassSet. If you are using an existing DataClassSet, right-click the appropriate DataClassSet subclient and then click Properties.
2. From the Rules tab of the DataClass Property dialog box, click Folders\Files Owned By.
3. In the Folders\Files Owned By tab, to include files owned by a specific user in the migration, click Include Users and then do one of the following:
   • Click Browse.
   • Click User and then Browse.
   • Click User Group and then Browse.

   Then type the appropriate domain name, user name, and password in the Authenticate Active Directory Domain Controller dialog box and click OK.

4. Click the appropriate user groups/users and then click Add.
5. Repeat the preceding two steps as necessary.
6. In the Folders\Files Owned By tab, to exclude files owned by a specific user in the migration, click Exclude Users and then do one of the following:
   • Click Browse.
   • Click User and then Browse.
   • Click User Group and then Browse.

   Then type the appropriate domain name, user name, and password in the Authenticate Active Directory Domain Controller dialog box and click OK.

7. Click the appropriate user groups/users and then click Add.
8. Repeat the preceding two steps as necessary.
9. Make any other desired changes and then click OK.

Deconfigure a Client, MediaAgent, Agent, or Enabler

Required Capabilities: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

Before you Begin:

• For MediaAgent Deconfiguration, ensure that all the storage policies or copies associated with the configured libraries (or drive pools) in the MediaAgent are deleted or re-associated to another MediaAgent.

To deconfigure a client, MediaAgent, agent, or enabler:

1. In the CommCell Browser, right-click the name of the client, MediaAgent, agent, or enabler you want to deconfigure, click All Tasks (if displayed), and select Deconfigure.
2. A popup warning message appears.

   Click OK to continue.

3. Another popup message then appears.

   Click Yes to continue with the deconfiguration or No to abort.

4. If the deconfigure is unsuccessful, a number of popup messages appears. In some cases, the message requests that you take some corrective action. For example, the message might advise you to ensure that there are no jobs running on the agent. In such a case, click OK and take the appropriate action. Then repeat the deconfigure process.

If the deconfigure is successful, the tree element is dimmed and available for deletion.

Delete the Agent

Before You Begin

You can perform agent operations as long as the agent is installed and appears enabled in the CommCell Browser. However, if you have no need to run jobs on the agent data of a client computer, you may want to delete the agent that resides on that computer. Once you have uninstalled or DeConfigured the agent, the corresponding icon in the CommCell Browser is grayed out. While this icon exists, you can recover data from the agent to another client. If you delete this icon, all of the agent's data is irretrievably lost.

NOTES

• You cannot delete an agent while operations for that agent are running.
• NAS clients do not use this procedure; for NAS, see the Uninstall section of Deployment - NetApp NAS NDMP iDataAgent.

Deleting the agent is a two-phase process.

• You need to uninstall or DeConfigure the agent software from the client computer. Doing so frees an agent license, thereby allowing you to install it on some other computer whose data you do want to secure.
• After you delete the client software, you can either leave the corresponding data intact for appropriate action, or you can remove the data immediately. If you choose to remove the data immediately, you must delete the agent from the CommCell Browser.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete an agent:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the agent that you want to delete, and then click Delete. (The agent software must first have been uninstalled/DeConfigured or the delete option on the shortcut menu will not appear.)
2. A warning message prompts you with the following: This operation will permanently delete the data backed up from this level and it cannot be restored. Click Ok to continue with the deletion operation. (Clicking No will abort the operation.)
3. From the Confirmation Text dialog box, enter the confirmation text string, erase and reuse media. Click Ok. The agent icon and the data that corresponds to the selected agent will be deleted. Consequently, you will not be able to browse or recover this data.

View the Software Version

To view the Software Version:

1. From the CommCell Browser, click the CommServe, Client, Agent, MediaAgent, or Enabler for which you wish to view the version, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Version tab.

   The component version and post release service pack, additional updates and missing updates are displayed.