Setting up daemons

By default, IBM® Storage Protect Snapshot daemons are started and restarted automatically. If you need to stop and start the daemon processes for any reason, you can do this as required.

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Important: If you want to configure the background daemons in a clustered environment, add the commands that are listed here to the High Availability (HA) startup scripts on the production system.
  • <instance directory>/acsd
  • <instance directory>/acsgen -D
  • <instance directory>/fcmcli -D (optional)
The following daemons are started for the productive instance:
  • The management agent, acsd
  • The generic device agent, acsgen -D
  • The offload agent, fcmcli -D, if offloaded backups to an IBM Storage Protect server are requested to be started immediately after a snapshot backup.
For each backup or clone instance, a mount agent, acsgen -D -M, must be started.
  • <instance directory>/acsgen -D -M -s <deviceclass>[,<deviceclass>...]
  • <clone instance directory>/acsgen -D -M -s <clone_deviceclass>[,<clone_deviceclass>...]

When you run the Configuration Wizard, the daemons are started automatically when you complete the process. If you need to stop and start the daemons independently from a configuration process, launch the Configuration Wizard, and select Edit global settings. Use the Stop background daemons and Start background daemons options as required.