Use the Tivoli® Storage
Manager cluster
wizard to configure the backup-archive client to protect cluster resources.
The wizard gathers the information that is needed so the backup-archive
client can protect cluster resources, and log on to the server.
Before you begin
Before you run the
Tivoli Storage
Manager cluster
configuration wizard, perform the following steps:
- Install the backup-archive client on each node in the cluster.
All backup-archive clients must be the same version of the software
and all clients must be installed in the same directory on each node.
- Register the nodes that you are going to run the cluster configuration
wizard on. On the Tivoli Storage
Manager server,
use the administrative command-line client and register the node by
using the register node command.
- Make sure that the cluster groups that will be configured are
owned by the system that will run the cluster wizard. This ensures
that the backup-archive client files (options file, error log, schedule
log) can be created/updated on the cluster drives.
About this task
You run the wizard on only one node in the cluster; the
wizard creates the necessary services on all nodes in the cluster.
The
wizard can configure only one cluster group at a time. If you have
multiple cluster groups to protect, run the wizard as many times as
needed to configure the client to back up each group.
Procedure
- Run dsm.exe to start the Java™ GUI.
- In the GUI, click .
- Choose Configure a new or additional cluster
group, the first time you run the wizard on a node. On
subsequent wizard sessions, you can choose to update a previously
configured cluster group or to remove a saved configuration.
- Select the name of the cluster group
that you want to protect.
- Select the disks in the cluster group that you want to
protect. You cannot use the wizard to back up the quorum drive.
- Specify the disk location where you want the wizard to
store the client options file (dsm.opt) that
the wizard creates. The client options file must be on one of the
drives in the cluster group that you selected in step 4. If a client options file exists at this location, you are prompted
to overwrite it, or choose a new directory.
- Specify a name for the Tivoli Storage
Manager Scheduler that will be used to perform the backups. Select Use
the Client Acceptor Daemon to manage the scheduler, if
you want the client acceptor daemon to manage the scheduler.
- Specify the node name for the cluster node and the password
that is used to log on to the Tivoli Storage
Manager Server.
By default, the option to have the password validated by the server
is selected. Clear this option if you do not want the password validated.
- Specify the account that the scheduler and client acceptor
daemon services log on as when the services are started. Specify whether
you want to start the service manually, or when the node is booted.
- Specify the names and location of the client schedule log
file and error log file. By default, event logging is enabled. Clear
this option if you do not want to log events.
To ensure
that any node can perform backups if any other node fails, the wizard
copies the registry data to all nodes in the cluster.