Disabling the connection between your OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Primary Server
If you need to upgrade your NetBackup Primary Server before you upgrade your OpsCenter server, you can disable the relationship between your primary and OpsCenter servers.
Please be aware of the limitations and potential data loss concerns related to disabling data collection:
It is not supported to collect data from the NetBackup primary server that is at a higher version than the OpsCenter server. The OpsCenter server must be at the same version or higher than the NetBackup primary server.
After the OpsCenter Data Collection is disabled for the primary server, OpsCenter does not receive any alerts or new data in the OpsCenter reports. Data that was collected before data collection was disabled is still available in the OpsCenter reports.
After you upgrade OpsCenter and enable data collection, OpsCenter receives any new alerts for the primary server and new data in the reports. OpsCenter collects data for the time when data collection was disabled only if the data is still available on the primary server. Reporting data and alerts are lost if the primary server job retention level is shorter than the time that the data collection is disabled.
To disable the connection between the primary server and the OpsCenter server
- Disable data collection in OpsCenter.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Primary Server to be upgraded > Disable Data Collection
- Upgrade the NetBackup Primary Server.
You can now operate both NetBackup and OpsCenter, but OpsCenter does not have complete data.
To enable the connection between the primary server and the OpsCenter server
- Upgrade OpsCenter.
- Enable data collection on OpsCenter once the OpsCenter upgrade completes successfully.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Primary Server to be upgraded > Enable Data Collection