Setting up daemons

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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 to be started 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 setup script in advanced mode, you can request that the daemons are not to be started automatically by the operating system. In this case, daemons must be started and set up to be restarted by other means.