A client computer group is a logical grouping of client computers. Client Computer
Group definition help to define options to the entire group instead of the individual
clients.
Once created, client computer groups can be used to perform the following tasks
for all the members in the client group:
Create Schedule Policies
Set Firewall Settings
Associate User Groups with specific security
Install Updates
Generate Reports
View job history details
Set the activity control for backup/restore operations
Activity Control allows you to enable or disable all the data management, data
recovery and/or online content indexing operations on all client computers that
are members of a client computer group.
Use the following steps to enable or disable the activity control.
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computer Groups.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group> and then click
Properties.
Click the Activity Control tab.
By default, Enable Data Management, Enable Data Recovery
and Enable Online Content Indexing options are enabled.
To
disable, clear the Enable Data Management, Enable Data Recovery
and Enable Online Content Indexing check boxes.
Click OK.
If the data management and/or data recovery operations
are disabled, client group icon changes in the CommCell Browser.
You can associate or disassociate user groups to or from a client computer group.
From CommCell Console
Use the following steps to associate or disassociate a user group to a Client
Computer Group from the CommCell Console:
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computer Groups.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group> and then click
Properties.
Click the Security tab.
To associate, from the Available Groups list, select the
appropriate user groups to which you want to associate to the client
group and then click > to move the user group to the Associated
Groups list.
To disassociate, from the Associated Groups
list, select the user groups to which you want to disassociate to the
client group and then click < to move the user groups to the
Available Groups list.
Click OK.
From Command Line
Use the following steps to associate or disassociate members from an existing
user group to a client computer group. This will allow you to manage the members
in the user group.
If necessary you can use the following steps to overwrite the associate user
group available on the client group with a given user group.
Right-click the View Sample XML File link and click Save
Link As... or Save Target As... to save the XML file needed
for this task.
Open the .xml file using an XML editor and modify the following
parameters:
clientGroupName - Specify the names of the client computer
group that you want to associate to the user group.
For example:
If you wish to associate user group to
clientgroup1, clientgroup2
and clientgroupx then your element
will appear as follows:
<entity>
<clientGroupName>clientgroup1</clientGroupName>
</entity>
<entity>
<clientGroupName>clientgroup2</clientGroupName>
</entity>
<entity>
<clientGroupName>clientgroupx</clientGroupName>
</entity>
userGroupName - Specify the user group to which you want
to associate to the client group.
For example: If you wish to
associate usergroup1 to above client
group, then you must add the following:
<userGroupName>usergroup1</userGroupName>
associatedUserGroupsOperationType - Indicate one of the
following operation types:
ADD - This will associate the
User Group to a Client Computer Group
DELETE - This will disassociate the User Group to a Client
Computer Group
OVERWRITE - To associate the user group mentioned above
and disassociate all the user group available on the client computer
group. For example:
If usergroup2 and
usergroup3 are already associated
on clientgroup1, and you wish to
overwrite the available user groups with
usergroup4. This operation associates
usergroup4 to the
clientgroup1 and disassociates
usergroup2 and
usergroup3.
Save the file as input.xml.
From Command prompt, navigate to
<Software_Installation_Directory>/Base and then run the
following command:
Login to the CommServe using the
qlogin
command and commcell credentials.
For example, to log on to
CommServe
server1 with username
user1:
C:\>qlogin -cs server1 -u user1
Run the XML using the qoperation command.
For example, to
run input.xml
C:\>qoperation execute –af input.xml
You can verify the user group associated to client from
Associated Groups.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the
<Client_Computer_Group>
and then click Properties.
Click Security tab.
The User Group specified above will be listed in the
Associated Groups.
You can define the connection details for incoming and outgoing connections required
to operate the client group across the firewall by configure firewall settings.
Use the following steps to configure firewall settings for client computer group:
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computer Groups.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group> and then click
Properties.
Click the Firewall Configuration tab.
In the Firewall Configuration tab, provide the necessary
options.
The options depends on your firewall settings. See
Firewall
for more information.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group>, point
All Tasks, and then click Push Firewall Configuration.
The configuration is now applicable for all the clients. You can verify
the new firewall configuration on each client computer.
Use the following steps to configure a client to inherit the firewall settings
from the client computer group.
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computers.
Right-click the <Client Computer> and then click
Properties.
Click the Firewall Configuration tab.
In the Firewall Configuration tab, ensure the
Configure Firewall Settings option is not selected.
Click OK.
Future firewall changes will be applicable at
the client group level.
When Configure Firewall Settings is selected,
the firewall configuration of both the client computer and client
group are merged in the client computer.
The network traffic for Clients and MediaAgents can be throttled based on the
network bandwidth in your environment. This is useful if you want to limit the network
bandwidth usage.
By default, network throttling is disabled. You can enable the throttling options
on a client group for multiple clients. Once configured, the throttling options
are applied to all data transfer and control message operations, such as Data Protection
operations including Laptop Backups, Copy operations including DASH copy, Data Recovery
Operations, etc.
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computers.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group> and then click
Properties.
Click the Network Throttling tab.
Select Enable Network Throttling check box.
Under Client Computer Groups, select client computer groups
to setup throttling.
By default, All clients share allocated bandwidth check
box is selected to share the throttling settings among all selected
clients cumulatively.
If this check box is cleared, each client
will throttle at the configured rate instead of a combined and
shared rate.
Click Add to setup throttling rules. For example:
Days of Week - select a day or multiple days for the
schedule to run.
Time Interval - select Whole day or a specific time interval
for the schedule to run.
You can select one of the following to specify a throttling rate:
Use Absolute Throttling
Select Throttle Send and
Throttle Receive
rate and enter values for each.
Throttle Relative to Bandwidth
Select If send
bandwidth is less than (Kbps) to specify a minimum bandwidth
required for send throttling to take affect and then specify the
percentage rate to throttle the network bandwidth when the
minimum bandwidth is available.
Select If receive bandwidth is less than (Kbps) to
specify a minimum bandwidth required for receive throttling to
take affect and then specify the percentage rate to throttle the
network bandwidth when the minimum bandwidth is available.
If the throttle bandwidth is higher than the amount specified
in Kbps, then the job will run without throttling.
Click OK.
The newly added throttling rules will be displayed in Throttling
Schedule.
Click OK.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computer Groups
| <Client Computer Group> | All Tasks and click Push Firewall
Configuration.
This user account will be used for all computers within a Client Computer
Group. Configure the user account at this level if different users will be
conducting backup and restore operations for each Client Computer Group in your
organization. This user account will override the user account configured at the
CommCell level.
Verify that all the SQL Server clients for which you wish to configure
the user account are included in the Client Computer Groups.
Navigate to Client ComputerGroups, right-click the <Client Computer Group> and click Properties.
Enable the Override higher levels settings check box.
Select the following:
Use Local System Account if the
computer's Administrator account contains the required privileges.
Impersonate User if you want to use a different account that
contains the required privileges. Enter the User Name and Password
for this account in the space provided.
By default, all operations in the CommCell will run for 24 hours without restriction.
However, it may be necessary to prevent operations from running during certain time
periods of the day, e.g., during the day time when the resources are busy. To accomplish
this, you can define operation rules which will enable certain operations to be
run during idle periods, thereby not consuming resources such as network bandwidth,
data, or storage resources during busy hours. For more information, see Operation
Window.
Use the following steps to configure operation rules.
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computer Groups.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group>, point
All Tasks and then click Operation Window.
From the Operation Windows dialog box, click Add.
In the Operation Rule Details dialog box, specify the following:
In the Name box, type a name.
From the Operation, select either an administration,
data protection (either full or non-full), and/or a data recovery
operations.
From the Days of week, select the day(s) of the week
to exclude the operation.
From the Do not run intervals pane, click Add
to add a date interval that will prevent the selected operation(s)
from running.
From the Time Intervals dialog box, select
a start and end time to exclude the operation(s) from running, then
click Add. Click OK to close the Time Intervals.
Use the following steps to view the job history of a client computer group:
From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computer Groups.
Right-click the <Client Computer Group>, and
then click
View | Job History.
Perform one of the following:
To view Data Protection Operations:
By default, Backup, Quick Recovery Agent Volume Creation,
Archive/Compliance Archive and Recovery Point Creation/CDR
Data Verification options are selected.
For advanced options, click Advanced button.
From the
Data Protection History Advanced Filter dialog box, select
the type of backup you would like to view, as well as the type of
QR Volume Creation operation.
Click OK.
The system displays the options you selected in the
Data
Protection Job History dialog box.
To view Data Recovery Operations:
Select Data Recovery Operations. All restore
operation types are selected by default.
If you want to view more advanced options for restores, click Advanced.
From the Data Recovery History Advanced Filter select
the destination client computer of the restores you would like to
view, then click OK.
Click OK.
The system displays the options you selected in the Data
Recovery Job History dialog box.
