Starting the client acceptor service and registering an administrator

Before you can log in to the IBM® Storage Protect web user interface to remotely manage client nodes, you must start the client acceptor service on the workstation where the backup-archive client is installed. You must also register an IBM Storage Protect administrator to access client data.

Complete the following steps on the client workstation:

1. Run the dsmc query session command to validate that the TLS or SSL protocol is used. Review the output to find the security information, which is similar to the following example:

   SSL Information.........: TLSv1.2 TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

   Important: If security information is not available, you are connecting to an IBM Storage Protect 8.1.1 or earlier server, which does not have the enhanced security features in the version 8.1.2 or later server. A web user interface session cannot be used with an IBM Storage Protect 8.1.1 or earlier server.
2. Start the client acceptor by taking the appropriate actions for your operating system:
   • On an AIX® operating system, run the dsmcad command from a command line.
   • On a Linux® operating system, if you are a using a Linux distribution that is based on init.d, enter the command /etc/init.d/dsmcad start; from a command line.

     If your Linux distribution uses systemd to manage services, start the service by using the systemctl start dsmcad command from a command line. For more information, see Setting the client scheduler process to run as a background task and start automatically at startup.

   • On a Windows operating system, use the dsmcutil command to create and start a dsmcad and dsmagent service from a command line. For more information, see the INSTall CAD and INSTall REMOTEAgent commands in Dsmcutil commands: Required options and examples. Issue the following command:

     dsmcutil start /name:client_acceptor_daemon_service_name

     where client_acceptor_daemon_service_name is the name of the client acceptor (CAD) service.
3. Enter the following IBM Storage Protect server commands by using the IBM Storage Protect administrative command line (dsmadmc) to register an administrator to access the client data, and run remote client operations on behalf of the client node:

   reg admin admin_ID password

   grant auth admin_ID cl=node auth=access node=your_node

   where admin_ID is the administrator's ID, password is the administrator's password, and your_node is the node where client operations are run.

   Tip: An existing administrator with a higher privilege class than node, such as system, policy, storage, or operator, can be used for any node that exists on the server.