Closed registration

With closed registration, you must provide your IBM Storage® Protect administrator with information to register your workstation as a client node with the server.

If your enterprise uses closed registration, your IBM Storage Protect administrator registers your node. Your IBM Storage Protect administrator requires the following information:

1. Your node name: the value that the hostname command returns or the node name that you specified by using the nodename option
2. The initial password that you want to use, if a password is required
3. Contact information, such as your name, user ID, and telephone number

Your administrator defines the following policies for your node:

• The policy domain to which your client node belongs
  Note: A policy domain contains policy sets and management classes that control how IBM Storage Protect manages the files you back up, archive, or migrate.
• Whether you can compress files before you send them to the server
• Whether you can delete backup and archive data from IBM Storage Protect storage