Adding clients
After you implement a data protection solution with IBM Spectrum Protect, you can expand the solution by adding clients.
About this task
- Application client nodes
- Application client nodes include email servers, databases, and other applications. For example,
any of the following applications can be an application client node:
- IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
- System client nodes
- System client nodes include workstations, network-attached storage (NAS) file servers, and API clients.
- Virtual machine client nodes
- Virtual machine client nodes consist of an individual guest host within a hypervisor. Each virtual machine is represented as a file space.
Procedure
To add a client, complete the following steps:
- Select the software to install on the client node and plan the installation. Follow the instructions in Selecting the client software and planning the installation.
- Specify how to back up and archive client data. Follow the instructions in Specifying rules for backing up and archiving client data.
- Specify when to back up and archive client data. Follow the instructions in Scheduling backup and archive operations.
- To allow the client to connect to the server, register the client. Follow the instructions in Registering clients.
- To start protecting a client node, install and configure the selected software on the client node. Follow the instructions in Installing and configuring clients.