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Assign a Filter Storage Policy for Erase Data
by Browsing
Browse the Latest Data
Change the SharePoint Administrator Account
Change Account for Executing Pre/Post Commands (Data Protection)
Deconfigure a Client, MediaAgent, Agent, or Enabler
Delete the Agent
View the Software Version
Configure Stub Rule
Before You Begin
- Review Erase Backup/Archived Data.
- Ensure that the filter storage policy that you associate with the agent for the Erase Data by Browsing feature has retention criteria that is greater than or equal to the retention criteria of the storage policy for the data to be erased.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To assign a filter storage policy for Erase Data by Browsing:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate agent icon and then click Properties.
- From the Storage Device tab of the agent Properties dialog box, select a filter storage policy from the Filter Storage Policy list.
- Click OK.
The following procedure can be used to browse data from the client, agent, instance, or backup set level,
replication set level, depending on the functionality
of a given agent.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To browse the
latest data:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the level whose data you want to
browse, click All Tasks, and then click the Browse/Browse Backup
Data option from that level.
- From the Browse Options
dialog box,
click OK to execute the browse using the Browse the Latest Data option.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To change the
SharePoint Administrator Account:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the agent icon of the client computer whose agent configuration you want to change, and then click
Properties.
- From the General tab of the
agent Properties dialog box, click Change Account.
In the
Change
Administrator Account
dialog box, enter the new SharePoint Administrator Account and account password.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To change
a user account for executing pre/post commands for Data Protection jobs:
- From the CommCell Browser, expand the tree to view the appropriate level
icon for the affected agent.
- From the agent, instance/partition, or backup set/archive set level, right-click
the appropriate icon, click All Tasks, and click New Subclient
from the short-cut menu.
- From the subclient level, right-click the subclient icon and click
Properties from the short-cut menu.
- From the Subclient Properties dialog box, create and/or configure the subclient
as appropriate. Then click the Pre/Post Process tab.
- From the Pre/Post Process tab, click Change.
- From the
User Account dialog box, select one of the account options. If you select
Impersonate User, type the appropriate user name and password.
- Click OK to save the settings.
Required Capabilities:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
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Administrative Management capability cannot be used to perform the deconfigure operation from the MediaAgent level.
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Before you Begin:
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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:
- 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.
- A popup warning message appears.
Click OK to continue.
- Another popup message then appears.
Click Yes to continue with the deconfiguration or No to abort.
- 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.
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
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:
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.
To
view the Software Version:
- From the CommCell Browser, click the CommServe, Client,
Agent, MediaAgent, or Enabler for which you wish to view the version, and then click
Properties.
- Click the Version tab.
The component version and post release service pack, additional updates
and missing updates are displayed.
To
configure stub rules for this Agent:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate agent icon and then click Properties.
- From the Stub
Rule tab of the agent Properties dialog box, select the Preserve stubs until the media has been pruned radio button to allow stubs to exist until the media retention time has been met and data aging has been run.
- Optionally select the Prune stub only after n days radio button and select a value corresponding to the number of days that will determine the minimum life of a stub.
- Click OK.