Configure the IBM Spectrum Protect client

After installing the backup-archive client, you must configure it before performing any operations.

If you are upgrading the backup-archive client, it is unnecessary to reconfigure the scheduler, web client, or other configuration settings. If the dsm.opt and dsm.sys files used by the previous client installation are available in the default installation directory or the directory or file pointed to by the DSM_CONFIG and DSM_DIR environment variables, the client accesses these files for configuration information.

If you are upgrading the backup-archive client, it is unnecessary to reconfigure the scheduler, web client, or other configuration settings. If the dsm.opt file used by the previous client installation is available in the default installation directory or the directory or file pointed to by the DSM_CONFIG and DSM_DIR environment variables, the client accesses this file for configuration information.

Some configuration tasks are required, while other tasks are optional. The following configuration tasks are required:

• Creating and modifying the client system-options file
• Creating and modifying the client options file
• Register your workstation with a server

The following configuration tasks are optional:

• Creating a default client-user options file
• Creating a customized client user-options file
• Environment variables
• Create a shared directory options file
• Creating multiple client options files
• Environment variables
• Configuring the language for displaying the backup-archive client GUI
• Configuring the web client on Windows systems
• Configuring the web client on AIX, Linux, Mac, and Solaris systems
• Configuring the scheduler
• Configuring the journal engine service
• Configuring online-image backup support
• Configuring Open File Support
• Creating an include-exclude list
• Configuring parallel backups of VMware virtual machines. See Parallel backups of virtual machines