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 Java 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
- UNIX and Linux client root and authorized user tasks
An authorized user is any non-root user who has read and write access to the stored password (TSM.PWD file), or anyone who knows the password and enters it interactively. Authorized users use the passworddir option to define the directory where their copy of the TSM.PWD file is saved. - Enable non-administrators to manage their own data
To enable non-administrators to use the backup-archive client to manage their own data, the system administrator must complete steps in addition to the normal configuration steps. - Client options file overview
You set (specify) client options and values in a client options file. Client options can also be set on the server in a client option set. Client options that are set on the server in a client option set override client options that are set in the client options file. - Environment variables
Generally, setting the environment variables is an optional task. Setting them makes it more convenient for you to use the command line. - Environment variables
Generally, setting the environment variables is an optional task. Setting these variables makes it more convenient for you to use the command line. - Configuring the language for displaying the Java GUI
You can select the language to use for displaying the backup-archive client Java GUI. - Web client configuration overview
The IBM Spectrum Protect web client provides remote management of a client node from a web browser. The procedures to configure the web client vary depending on which operating system is on the client node. - Configuring the scheduler
Your IBM Spectrum Protect administrator can schedule the client to perform tasks automatically. For scheduled events to occur on the client, you must configure the client scheduler to communicate with the IBM Spectrum Protect server. - Start the client scheduler
This task guides you through the steps to schedule events using the GUI and the command-line client. - Starting the client scheduler
To start the client scheduler, use the Services Control Panel or the net start command. - Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect client/server communication across a firewall
In most cases, the IBM Spectrum Protect server and clients can work across a firewall. - Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect client/server communication with Secure Sockets Layer
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) allows industry standard SSL-based secure communications between the IBM Spectrum Protect client and server. - Configure your system for journal-based backup
You must install and configure the journal daemon (Linux) or journal engine service (Windows) before you can perform journal-based backups. - Client-side data deduplication
Data deduplication is a method of reducing storage needs by eliminating redundant data. - Automated client failover configuration and use
The backup-archive client can automatically fail over to a secondary server for data recovery when the IBM Spectrum Protect server is unavailable. You can configure the client for automated failover or prevent the client from failing over. You can also determine the replication status of your data on the secondary server before you restore or retrieve the replicated data. - Configuring the client to back up and archive Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack data
Before you can back up or archive Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack client data, you must complete configuration tasks. - Configuring the backup-archive client to protect FastBack client data
You can configure the backup-archive client to protect FastBack client data by using the client configuration wizard. - Cluster environment configuration and use
The term cluster has different meanings in different environments. It can mean highly available, high performance, load balancing, grid computing, or some combination of all of these terms. - Configuring the backup-archive client in a cluster server environment
You can install the backup-archive client software locally on each node of a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) or Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) environment cluster. - Configuring online-image backup support
If the online image feature is configured, the backup-archive client performs a snapshot-based image backup, during which the real volume is available to other system applications. - Configuring Open File Support
You configure Open File Support (OFS) after you install the Window client. - AIX configuration considerations prior to performing snapshot-based file backups and archives
If you are configuring your IBM Spectrum Protect AIX® client to perform snapshot-based file backups and archives, there are some items that you need to consider. - Configuring NetApp and IBM Spectrum Protect for snapshot difference incremental backups
You must configure the NetApp file server connection information to run the snapshot difference incremental backup command on the backup-archive client. You must also use the set password command to specify the file server host name, and the password and user name that is used to access the file server. - Register your workstation with a server
Before you can use IBM Spectrum Protect, you must set up a node name and password and your node must be registered with the server. - Creating an include-exclude list
If you do not create an include-exclude list, the backup-archive client considers all files for backup services and uses the default management class for backup and archive services.