Setting up the managed server can be done by an administrator
working at a central location, or by administrators working at the
servers that will be managed servers.
About this task
Figure 1 shows
the specific commands needed to set up one Tivoli® Storage
Manager server as
a managed server. The following procedure gives you an overview of
the steps required to set up a server as a managed server.
Figure 1. Setting up a managed server
A server becomes a managed server when that server first
subscribes to a profile on a configuration manager.
- Query the server to look for potential conflicts.
Look
for definitions of objects on the managed server that have the same
name as those defined on the configuration manager. With some exceptions,
these objects will be overwritten when the managed server first subscribes
to the profile on the configuration manager.
If the managed
server is a new server and you have not defined anything, the only
objects you will find are the defaults (for example, the STANDARD
policy domain).
- Subscribe to one or more profiles.
A managed
server can only subscribe to profiles on one configuration manager.
If
you receive error messages during the configuration refresh, such
as a local object that could not be replaced, resolve the conflict
and refresh the configuration again. You can either wait for the automatic
refresh period to be reached, or kick off a refresh by issuing the
SET CONFIGREFRESH command, setting or resetting the interval.
- If the profile included policy domain information, activate
a policy set in the policy domain, add or move clients to the domain,
and associate any required schedules with the clients.
You
may receive warning messages about storage pools that do not exist,
but that are needed for the active policy set. Define any storage
pools needed by the active policy set, or rename existing storage
pools.
- If the profile included administrative schedules, make
the schedules active.
Administrative schedules are not
active when they are distributed by a configuration manager. The schedules
do not run on the managed server until you make them active on the
managed server. See Tailoring schedules.
- Set how often the managed server contacts the configuration
manager to update the configuration information associated with the
profiles.
The initial setting for refreshing the configuration
information is 60 minutes.
For more information, see the following
topics:
