Closed registration

With closed registration, the IBM Spectrum Protect administrator must register your workstation as a client node with the server. If your enterprise uses closed registration, you must provide some information to your IBM Spectrum Protect administrator.

About this task

You must provide the following items to your IBM Spectrum Protect administrator:

  • Your node name (the value returned by the hostname command, the name of your workstation, or the node name you specified with the nodename option). If you do not specify a node name with the nodename option, the default login ID is the name that the hostname command returns.
  • The initial password you want to use, if required.
  • Contact information, such as your name, user ID, and phone number.

Your IBM Spectrum Protect administrator defines the following for you:

  • The policy domain to which your client node belongs. A policy domain contains policy sets and management classes that control how IBM Spectrum Protect manages the files you back up and archive.
  • Whether you can compress files before sending them to the server.
  • Whether you can delete backup and archive data from server storage.