The backup-archive client automatic deployment feature helps you schedule updates to one or more backup-archive clients with deployment packages. The deployment packages can be backup-archive client updates or full releases.
The backup-archive client deployment feature can simultaneously update multiple backup-archive clients, but it does not install new backup-archive clients. The deployment is configured and scheduled from the administrative command line. For more information about the client deployment feature, see Technote 1653433 at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653433.
The following list shows the deployment restrictions:
Windows IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive
clients that are at levels earlier than 5.4 cannot be updated with
the available deployment packages.
Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive
clients at levels earlier than 5.5 that are on other than Windows platforms cannot be
updated with the available deployment packages.- Operating systems that are not supported, such as Windows 2000, cannot be upgraded through the deployment process.
- Do not schedule automatic client deployments to workstations that
have an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise
Resource Planning application
installed on them.
At deployment time, a dependency check is performed to ensure that the API library does not conflict with the client package that is currently installed. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning applications do not use the same installation technology that the client installation program uses. The API library that is installed might not be compatible with the API library that was installed by the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning application. The newly deployed API library can cause the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning applications to fail.
To use the feature, the backup-archive client must meet these requirements:
- The PASSWORDACCESS option must be set to generate.
- The client acceptor (CAD) or backup-archive client schedule must be running at the time of the deployment. The backup-archive client is deployed from the server as a scheduled task.
- The backup-archive client must meet the following disk space requirements:
Table 1. Disk space required to deploy a backup-archive client package Operating system Total required disk space AIX® 1500 MB Solaris 1200 MB HP-UX 900 MB Mac OS X 200 MB Linux x86/x86 64 950 MB Windows 2 GB
You can find the deployment packages in the maintenance directory on the FTP site: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client.