Administrative
Management with CommCell level association
Client Computer Group
Administrative
Management with Client Computer Group level association
Client
Agent
Management with Client level association
Agent
Agent
Management with Agent level association
Subclient
Agent
Management with Subclient level association
To
enable or disable activity control at the CommCell, client computer group, client, agent, or subclient levels:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the CommServe, client computer
group, client computer,
agent, or subclient, and then click
Properties from the short-cut menu.
From the
Activity
Control
tab of the associated Properties dialog box, select or clear option(s), as desired.
Click OK.
Disabled data management and/or data recovery operations are displayed
with client and/or agent icon changes in the CommCell Browser. For a
comprehensive list of all icons in the CommCell Console, see
CommCell
Console Icons.
The following procedure can be used to browse data from the client, agent, instance, backup set,
replication set, or subclient level, depending on the functionality
of a given agent.
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.
Check Client Connectivity
Required Capability:
None.
To
check client connectivity:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer whose
connectivity you want to check.
Click All Tasks, and then click Check Readiness.
A message will be displayed indicating whether or not the client is
accessible in the CommCell.
Click Ok.
Configure Data Interface Pairs
Before You Begin
When you create a data interface between two computers, you must
ensure that there is a network path between the two computers. If there is
no network path between the two computers all operations will fail. If
necessary, check with your network administrator to determine whether a
given interface pair is valid.
From the Tools menu in the CommCell Console, click Control Panel
and then double-click Data Interface Pairs.
The Data Interface Pairs Wizard guides you through the process of
creating Data Interface Pairs between any two computers. Click Next to continue.
Alternatively, you can also configure data interface pairs from the
client computer:
From the
CommCell Browser, right-click the <Client> for which you wish to
configure data interface pair, and click Properties.
Click the Job Configuration tab.
Under the Data Interface Pairs section, click the Add
button.
2.
Select the names of computers for which you want to define the Data
Interface Pairs and then click Next.
3.
Click Add.
4.
Select the network interface name that you want to use for each
client, and then click Next. This will become the interface pair for communication
between the two clients.
If you do not find an specific network interface in the list, you can type the name or IP address of the NIC card.
In the case of remote computers, it is important to specify a
network interface that is visible to the other computer.
5.
The interface names between the two computers are displayed. Click
Next to continue.
No more than one data interface pair should be created between
two computers. If you want to establish a new interface pair, delete the
existing one and configure the interface you want to use.
6.
Click Finish to create the new data interface pair.
To encrypt data during data protection and recovery operations
using the CommCell Console, you must
configure encryption at the client level first and then at the subclient level.
To
encrypt data during third-party Command Line operations, you must
configure encryption at the client level first and then at the instance level.
This procedure configures data encryption for all supported agents that reside on this
client, however, no content at any level (instance or subclient) will be encrypted until
the respective level's encryption property is
enabled.
Select options based on the criteria described in the Encryption tab help.
Configure data encryption for Restore Access
and Direct Media Access.
If you configure data encryption with With a Pass-Phrase and do not elect to export the
pass-phrase to destination clients:
You will be required to enter the
pass-phrase during immediate data recovery operations.
You will not be able to run scheduled data recovery operations.
If you do not require this level of security, consider using Regular
encryption instead or Export an
Encryption Pass-Phrase. The following requires you to export the pass-phrase:
Scheduled data recovery operations
Stub data recovery operations (initiated from Migration Archiver Agents)
Third-party Command Line data recovery operations
Note, if you selected pass-phrase security you must enter a pass-phrase in the
dialog box that appears.
Click OK to save your settings and close client properties.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer
hosting the Exchange Server whose proxy client needs to be configured, and then click Properties.
From the Advanced tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box,
select the name of the proxy client from the Proxy for Exchange list.
NOTES
For 32-bit on 64-bit configurations, select the client name of the instance containing the 32-bit Exchange agents.
For off-host proxy configurations, select the client name of the off-host proxy computer.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer
for which you would like to configure the Web Server URLs, and then click Properties.
From the
Search Server URLs tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box,
enter the desired changes.
To
configure deduplication options for the client:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the client computer for
which you wish to configure deduplication options, and then click Properties.
From the
Client Side Deduplication
tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, provide the
following options.
If you wish to deduplicate the client's backup data on the client side
before transferring the data to the MediaAgent,
select Perform client side Deduplication.
If you wish to maintain a signature cache at the client for local
lookups, select Enable Client Side Disk Cache.
Administrative Management capability cannot be used to release the
license from the MediaAgent level.
Before you Begin:
To release license for MediaAgent, 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
release license for
client, MediaAgent, agent, or enabler:
In the CommCell Browser, right-click the name of the client, MediaAgent,
agent, or enabler you want to release license, click All Tasks (if
displayed), and select Release License.
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 releasing a license 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 process.
If releasing a license is successful, the tree element is dimmed and available for deletion.
Create a New Scratch Pool that does not contain any media, and name it
No_Media. Note that a scratch pool with no
media associations does not harm any existing configurations, nor does it misuse
media.
Create a
Storage Policy (standard), name it No_Backups,
and point it to the No_Media scratch pool.
Re-point all the client's subclients to the No_Backups
storage policy. When a user changes the storage policy association of a
subclient, retention cycles are set to zero (0), therefore, only the
retention days must be exceeded for data to be aged. In this case, the data
in the storage policy to which the client's subclients were originally
pointing to will age accordingly. Note that if the client computer's
activity is re-enabled, you can point the subclients back to their original
storage policy.
To resume client activity:
Enable
Operations for the client, and point the subclients back to their
original storage policy.
NOTES
This
feature does not require a user to uninstall client software; therefore, no licenses
are released during this process.
Any scheduled jobs associated with the suspended client will cause job
failures when initiated. This is normal behavior. Once client activity
is re-enabled, these scheduled jobs will no longer cause job failures.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer whose
job results path you want to change, and then click Properties.
From the
Job Configuration
tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, if necessary or
desired, click User Name/Password to establish or change the
Impersonate User account to access the Job Results Directory. If you do
this, click OK once you have administered the account.
From the
Job Configuration
tab, type a new job results
path in the Job results path field.
You can also click Browse to browse to a new job results path from
the Browse for Job Result Path dialog box. Click OK.
To
change the user account for accessing the Job Results Directory for the client:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer whose
job results path user account you want to change, and then click Properties.
From the
Job Configuration
tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, click User Name/Password.
In the Change
User Account dialog box, enter the appropriate User Impersonation
account information.
To change the
retention of the job results of a client computer:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer whose
job results retention criteria you want to change, and then click Properties.
From the
Job
Configuration
tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, select the number
of days job results should be pruned from the Prune job resultsafter
field.
Select a disk capacity after which job results should be pruned from the Prune
job results when disk capacity reaches field.
Click OK to save your changes.
View Data Interface Pairs Configured for
the Client
In the CommCell
Browser, right-click the Client computer for which you wish to view the data
interface pair, and select Properties. In the client's properties
dialog box, select the Advanced tab.
The list of data interface pairs configured for the client is displayed
in the Data Interface pairs area.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the client computer icon, and then
click Properties
from the short-cut menu.
From the
Job
Configuration tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, click in the Job Priority (0-9) field
and enter a new client priority value. Remember that the lower the value, the higher
the priority.
Click OK to save your changes.
Specify CDR Log File Location on Source and Destination Computers
Before You Begin
On Windows, this procedure can be performed on both the source
and destination computer(s); On UNIX, this procedure only applies to
a source computer.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click a client computer whose data
recovery history you want to view, click View,then click to
view a job history.
From the Job
History Filter dialog box,
select Restore, QR Volume Recovery, Recovery/Retrieve
and/or Stub Recall
from the Data Recovery Operations pane, then click OK.
If you want to view more advanced options for restores, from the Job
History Filter, select Restore, then click Advanced.
The system displays the results of the options you selected in the
Data Recovery
Job History
window.
If you selected Stub Recall as a job history filter option, the
system displays the results of the options you selected in the Data Recovery
Job History window's
Stub Recall
Jobs tab.
To
view the data protection job history of a client:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click a client computer whose data
protection history you want to view, click View,then click View Job History.
From the Job
History Filter, select Backup, QR Volume Creation, and/or
Archive/Compliance Archive
from the Data Protection Operations pane, then click OK.
If you want to view more advanced options, from the Job History Filter
window, select Backup and/or QR Volume Creation, then click Advanced.
From the
Data
Protection History Advanced Filter,
select the type of backup you would like to view, as well as the type of QR
Volume Creation operation. Click OK.
To view the log files
of a CommServe, MediaAgent, or client computer.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click a CommServe, MediaAgent, or client
computer, click View, and then click Log Files. The Select the Log File to Open
window displays.
To see a specific log file, either select the log file name from the list
or type the name of the log file in the field provided. (In the Files of
type field, Log Files (*.log) is displayed by default.) Click Open.
The contents of the log file are displayed.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer that you want to
delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete from the short-cut menu.
If the Delete command is not available, then you have not
successfully deleted the base client software (if relevant) from the client
computer.
A confirmation message appears. Click Yes to delete the client computer
or click No to cancel the deletion.
If you click Yes, the backup data that corresponds to the
selected client computer is deleted. Consequently, you will not be able to browse or restore this
data. If you click Yes, the client computer icon is removed from the
view.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the pseudo-client that you want to
delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete from the short-cut menu.
For a NAS client, if the Delete command is not shown, you
have not deconfigured the client, and the Deconfigure command will be
shown instead; refer to
Deconfiguring Agents.
(There is no base client software for a NAS Client.)
A confirmation message is displayed. Click OK, type the supplied phrase in the
Enter Confirmation Text dialog box, and click OK. The
pseudo-client icon should be removed from the view.
From the Tools menu in the CommCell console, click Control Panel,
and then double-click Data Interface Pairs. Select the names of computers
of which you wish to delete the Data
Interface Pairs and then click Next.
The Data Interface Pairs Wizard displays the list of data
interface pairs available.
Select the data interface pair you wish to delete, and then click the
Delete button.
Select Next to review the details and click Finish to
delete the selected data interface pair.
When you create a DB2 DPF pseudo-client, you also create a DB2 DPF partition
instance at the same time. Each pseudo-client can include only this one
partition instance; you cannot create additional instances for any one
pseudo-client. To create additional partition instances, you must create
additional pseudo-clients.
Before You Begin
Review the following to avoid common problems:
You should have administrative privileges.
Ensure that the user group to which the user belongs has agent
management capability on the DB2 DPF clients that will be added to the DB2
DPF pseudo-client.
You have the appropriate licenses available.
Add Client Checklist
For each DB2 DPF pseudo-client/instance that you want to create, collect the following information
in the first block before creating the pseudo-client. Also collect the
information in the second block. (Use the spaces provided to
record the information. Retain this information in your Disaster
Recovery binder.)
1.
Name of the DB2 DPF pseudo-client:
___________________________________________________
Instance path for which the DB2 DPF pseudo-client is being created:
_________________________
From the CommCell Console, right-click Client Computers and
click New Client.
2.
From the Add New Client dialog box, click
DB2 DPF Client and then click OK.
3.
In the Create DPF Client (General) dialog box, type or select values
for the fields as appropriate. To change the Windows user account, click Change User Account, type
the DB2 DPF user name and password credentials, and click OK.
Ensure that Auto detect new and deleted
partitions is enabled. Then click Details.
4.
In the Create DPF Client (Details)
dialog box, use the Clients list and
click Add/Refresh to include the appropriate database partitions
in the instance. Selected database partitions and their corresponding
clients will be displayed in the DB2 Partition
Clients space.
5.
From the Data
Backup tab in the Create DPF Client (Storage Device) dialog box,
click the default data storage policy from the list.
6.
From the Log
Backup tab in the Create DPF Client (Storage Device) dialog box,
click the storage policy for all log files from the list.
7.
From the Command
Line Backup tab in the Create DPF Client (Storage Device) dialog
box, click the storage policy for command line backups from the list.
To store update packages locally before installation, specify a local folder in the
Store Updates Locally field in which the updates must be stored. This serves as a temporary cache area. Note that you cannot specify a different folder to serve as the temporary cache area for NetWare clients; this field is disabled.
To
associate or disassociate a user group to a CommCell entity:
From the CommCell Browser, click the CommServe, client computer group, client computer, agent, MediaAgent, Library, Storage Policy, backup set, subclient, or Shelf media, and then select Properties.
From the Security tab, select the appropriate user groups to which
you want to associate to the CommCell object from the Available Groups
pane, and then move the user group to the Associated Groups pane.
To
associate or disassociate a client to a client group:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the client computer
for which you would like to configure the Web Server URLs, and then click
Properties.
From the
Groups tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box,
associate a client to a client group or remove the association from a group.
From the CommCell Console, right click on a client, and select
Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the
Client Computer Properties (Advanced) tab.
Alternatively, right click on a MediaAgent and select Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the
MediaAgent
Properties (Control) tab.
Select the Enable retry on
network errors option to enable the feature. Deselect it to disable the
feature. If enabled, you may configure the following:
Retry Frequency (seconds): The interval (in seconds) at which the
Job Manager will continuously check for network connectivity. Default is set
at 30 seconds.
Retry Count: The number of times the Job Manager will check for
network connectivity. Default is set at 40.
From the CommCell Browser, click the CommServe, Client,
Agent, MediaAgent, or Enabler for which you wish to view the version, and then click
Properties.
To
enable or disable activity control at the CommCell, client computer group, client, agent, or subclient levels:
