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Modifying an Agent, Instance, or Subclient

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Certain properties of agents, instances, and subclients can be modified to accommodate changes to your configuration, data, or desired backup behavior.

The following table describes the properties that can be configured from these levels.

Option

Description

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Change the user account details

In order to perform discovery, backup, and restore operations within a single instance, you need administrator-level global, virtual machine, and resource privileges.

You can configure the user account associated with the Virtual Center.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the virtual server instance.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Configure Password.

  4. Type the user name.

  5. Type password and confirm password.

    You can configure the user account associated with the ESX Server.

  6. Click Configure ESX Server.

  7. Select the ESX server.

  8. Click Edit.

  9. Type the username.

  10. Type the password and confirm password.

Change storage policies

You can modify the storage policies in any of the following situations:

  • To include a different media for the backup operation.

  • To use a storage policy with a different retention criteria.

You can change the storage policies from the subclient level.

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Storage Device.

  4. Select the Storage policy from the drop-down menu.

  5. Click OK.

Refer to Storage Policies.

Rename a backup set or subclient

You can rename a subclient:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Type the new name in the Subclient name field.

  4. Click OK.

Data transfer options

You can configure the available resources for transferring data secured by data protection operations from the subclient level. This includes the following:

  • Enable or disable Data Compression either on the client or on the MediaAgent.

  • Configure the transfer of data in the network using the options for Network Bandwidth Throttling and Network Agents.

You can configure the data transfer options.

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Storage Device.

  4. Click Data Transfer Option tab.

  5. Choose the appropriate software compression option for this subclient.

  6. Select Throttle Network Bandwidth and set the required bandwidth.

  7. Click OK.

Refer to Data Compression and Network Bandwidth Throttling.

View data paths

You can view the data paths associated with the primary storage policy copy of the selected storage policy or incremental storage policy. You can also modify the data paths including their priority from the subclient level.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Storage Device.

  4. Select Storage Policy from the drop-down menu.

  5. Click Data Paths.

Change the number of data readers

Use this option to specify the number of simultaneous backup data streams allowed for this subclient.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties

  3. Type the Number of Data Readers.

  4. Click OK.

Refer to Streams.

Select an ESX server to be used to mount snapshots for backup copies or live browse operations

For clients with IntelliSnap enabled:

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. On the Advanced Options tab, make the following changes:

    • Under Proxies, you can add proxies to be used for the source or destination vCenter, to override the proxies specified for the VMware instance.

    • Under Proxy ESX Server:

  4. From the Virtual Center / ESX Server list, select the vCenter that contains the ESX host to be used for mounting snapshots.

    You can select the vCenter where the source VMs reside or a different vCenter.

  5. In the Snap Mount ESX Host box, enter the host name for the ESX server that should be used to mount snapshots, or click Snap Mount Hosts to browse and select a host on the specified vCenter.

    By default, if a different vCenter is chosen as the destination, the first available proxy for the destination virtualization client performs the mount operation.

    If the useHigherPrecedenceForSCProxy additional setting is created on all VSA proxies and is set to true, the proxies specified for the source vCenter will be used instead of the proxies specified for the destination vCenter.

    For the source vCenter, VSA proxies specified at the subclient level are preferred over the proxies specified for the VMware instance. If a different vCenter is specified as the destination, the operation uses the proxies specified at the instance level.

    On the IntelliSnap Operations tab, you can specify a different proxy to be used for backup copy operations.

Configure a subclient for pre- and post-processing of data protection

You can add, modify or view Pre-processes and Post-processes for the subclient. These are batch files or shell scripts that you can run before or after certain job phases.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Pre/Post Process.

  4. Click one of the following phases and type the full path of the batch file that you want to execute during that phase.

    • PreBackup Process

    • PostBackup Process

    Alternatively, click Browse to locate the batch file (applicable only for paths that do not contain any spaces).

  5. Select Run Post Scan Process for all attempts to run a post scan process for all attempts.

  6. Select Run Post Backup Process for all attempts to run a post backup process for all attempts.

    The batch files will run on the first available proxy computer from the list of proxy computers. You can view the list of proxy computers on the Proxies tab of the Virtual Server Instance Properties dialog box.

  7. Click one of the following phases and type the full path of the batch file that you want to execute during that phase.

    • PreSnap Process

    • PostSnap Process

    The On Source option is selected by default. The batch files will the first available proxy computer from the list of proxy computers. You can view the list of proxy computers on the Proxies tab of the Virtual Server Instance Properties dialog box. The On Proxy option is not applicable for VMware. You cannot run the batch files on any other proxy computer.

  8. Click Change to specify the user account which has permissions to run these processes.

  9. In the User Account dialog box, select one of the following:

    • Use Local System Account - Select this option if you want to use the Local System Account to execute the batch files and click OK.

    • Impersonate User - Select this option if you want to use a specific user account to execute the batch files. Enter the user name and password for the user account and click OK.

  10. Click OK.

Refer to Pre-processes and Post-processes.

Configure activity control

You can enable backup and restore operations from the agent and subclient level. However, you can enable restore operations only from the agent level.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Activity Control, select or clear option(s) as desired.

  4. Click OK.

Refer to Activity Control.

Configure user security

You can configure user security from the agent or subclient level. You can perform the following functions:

  • Identify the user groups and roles associated with the CommCell object.

  • Associate this object with a user group and role.

  • Disassociate this object from a user group and role.

  • From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient and then click Properties.

    The Subclient Properties dialog box appears.

  • Click the Security tab and then click Add.

    The Add Users and Groups dialog box appears.

  • In the Users and Groups section, select the user group to associate with the CommCell object, and then click Add.

  • In the Role section, select the role to associate with the CommCell object.

  • Click OK.

    For this subclient, the users in the user group are restricted by the permissions in the role.

Refer to User Administration and Security.

Enable and disable data encryption

When you configure encryption at the client level, it is configured automatically for all the subclients associated with all the agents installed on that client. If you want to disable or change the encryption at the subclient level, follow the steps given below:

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Encryption.

  4. Select the desired encryption.

  5. Click OK.

Refer to Data Encryption.

View software version and installed updates

The Version tab, at the Agent level displays the software version and post-release service packs and updates installed for the component.

  1. From the CommCell browser, right-click the agent.

  2. Click Properties.

  3. Click Version.

  4. Click OK.

CommCell Configuration Report

The CommCell Configuration Report provides the properties of the CommServe, MediaAgents, clients, agents, subclients, and storage policies within the CommCell based on the selected filter criteria.

  1. From the CommCell browser, click Reports icon.

  2. Select CommCell Configuration.

  3. Click Run.

Refer to CommCell Configuration.

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