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.

The process of setting up a node name and password is called registration. Two types of registration are available, open and closed.

Your IBM Spectrum Protect server administrator chooses the type of registration for your site.

Restriction: Beginning with the IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.2 server, open registration is no longer available. You must use closed registration. Open registration is available only for the IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.1, V8.1.0, V7.1.7 or earlier server.

Mac OS X operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsYou must be a root user or authorized user to perform this required task.

If you plan to use the web client, you must have an administrative user ID with system privilege, policy privilege, client access authority, or client owner authority. When a new node is registered, the server administrator must create an administrative user ID that matches the node name. By default, this node has client owner authority.

The IBM Spectrum Protect server administrator must specify the userid parameter with the REGISTER NODE server command: 
REGISTER NODE node_name password userid=user_id
where the node name and the administrative user ID must be the same. For example: 
REGISTER NODE node_a mypassw0rd userid=node_a