Registering Client Computers

After you receive the computers that were preinstalled with the Commvault software, you can register each computer with the respective CommServe computer.

Before You Begin

Preinstall the Commvault software on the computers that you want to register.

Procedure

Use the following methods to register each client computer.

Method 1: Registering a Client Computer Using the CommCell Console

1. From the CommCell Console ribbon, on the Tools tab, click New Client. Under the File System section, and based on the computer's operating system, click Windows or UNIX and Linux.

   The New Windows Client (or New UNIX Client) dialog box appears.

2. On the Configure Client page, do the following:

   1. In the Host Name box, enter the fully qualified domain of the computer.

   2. Select the Fetch the configuration information from the client that is already installed in decoupled mode check box.

      By default, the Connect to a client and get its configuration option is selected

   3. In the CVD port on client box, enter the CVD port that was provided during the installation. If the port was not requested during the installation, then it uses the default port number (8400).

   4. Click Next.

3. On the Optional Data page, if you want to display the client with a different name in the CommCell Browser, select the Overrides the Client name check box.

4. In the Client Name box, enter a new name for the client, and then click Next.

5. On the Summary page, review the information you provided, and then click Finish.

   When the registration process finishes, the client is listed under the Client Computers node of the CommCell Browser.

Method 2: Registering a Client Computer Using the Command Line

Open the command line prompt on the client computer, go to the Installation_Directory_Path/Base directory, and then run one of the following commands:

• Windows computers

   
  SIMCallWrapper.exe -OpType 1000 -CSName CommServe_Name -CSHost CommServe_hostname -clientHostName client_hostname -clientName client_name -Instance  InstanceNNN -output XML_file_location

• UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh computers

   
  ./SIMCallWrapper -OpType 1000 -CSName  CommServe_Name -CSHost  CommServe_hostname -ClientHostName client_hostname -clientName client_name -Instance InstanceNNN -output XML_file_location -restartServices

Note:

• InstanceNNN is the format of the instance number. If no other Commvault instance is installed on the computer, specify Instance001.

• XML_file_location is the directory path where you want to save the output of the SIMCallWrapper command. For example:

  • Windows: C:\temp\output.xml

  • UNIX: /temp/output.xml

• If the client can reach the CommServe computer using a network gateway, then use the -ConnectionInfo parameter in the following format: -ConnectionInfo Host_Name:Port

  Where:

  • Host_Name is the host name of the network gateway

  • Port is the port number it is reachable on.

• If user authentication for installing agents is enabled on the CommCell environment, you must add the -user and -password parameters to specify your user credentials.

• When the registration process finishes, the client is listed under the Client Computers node of the CommCell browser.