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![]() Global Filters can be configured as follows:
CommNet Global Filters represent the top-level of a filtering hierarchy such that filters defined at the CommNet level can be propagated downward to CommCells within a CommNet domain, which can then be propagated down to specified subclients on those CommCells. The inheritance of Global Filters by subordinate objects within the filtering hierarchy is illustrated in the simple image. For example, Company A decided to save money on storage and reduce the backup window by not backing up a folder commonly found on computers in their organization called C:\temp. To accomplish this goal using Global Filters, that path was specified as an exclusion filter entry in CommNet, then the Global Filters were enabled on each CommCell in the CommNet domain, and enabled on each file system subclient for those CommCells so that the CommNet filter entry was inherited by the selected CommCells and subclients. Using this approach, typing in that filter path for 100 subclients across 10 CommCells can be avoided. Also, the next time backups were run for those subclients it took less time and fewer tapes because C:\temp was successfully filtered out of the backups. Global Filters are configured separately for each agent type both at the CommNet and CommServe level, and support the use of regular expressions (or wildcards). To set up global filters for CommCell, use the Control Panel from the Tools menu on CommCell console. |
Perform the following steps to setup Global Filters at the CommNet level:
See Setup Global Filters in CommNet for step-by-step instructions.
See Enable/Disable Global Filters for a CommCell for step-by-step instructions.
See Enable/Disable Global Filters on a Subclient for step-by-step instructions.
Perform the following steps to setup Global Filters at the CommCell level:
See Setup Global Filters for a CommCell for step-by-step instructions.
See Enable/Disable Global Filters on a Subclient for step-by-step instructions.
Job Results files cannot be filtered from backup operations.
To configure Global Filters for an OES File System iDataAgent you must create and associate the subclient with Unix File System global filters.
When the following configurations are modified, the changes are immediately pushed to the active CommCell(s); cell synchronization is not required to propagate this information to the cells.
This information will be pushed accordingly when services (CommNet Server or Bull Calypso Server Event Manager) are restarted as well.