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In IBM Spectrum Protect™ Version 7.1.8 and all later V7 levels, and in V8.1 and all later V8 levels, the REGISTER NODE command no longer creates an administrative ID that matches the node name. This product update does not affect existing client nodes, but can affect the process of registering new client nodes.
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Tip: The product now known as IBM Spectrum Protect was named IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager in releases earlier than Version 7.1.3. To learn more about the rebranding transition, see technote 1963634.
You must create administrative user IDs when you register any nodes for the following clients:
- IBM Spectrum Protect web client
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail: Data Protection for IBM Domino
- IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot on Microsoft Windows operating systems
You can create an administrative user ID by issuing the REGISTER NODE command and specifying the USERID parameter:
register node node_name password userid=node_name
where node_name specifies the node name and password specifies the node password.
This change in the REGISTER NODE command is designed to optimize authentication of users to an Active Directory database on a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server. For more information, see Optimize user authentication to an Active Directory database.
Restriction: For the previously mentioned client types, the client node name and the administrative user ID must match. Therefore, you cannot authenticate those clients by using an Active Directory database. However, you can authenticate those clients by using the previous method of LDAP authentication. For instructions, see Managing passwords and logon procedures.
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Modified date:
17 June 2018
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