Instance management for an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
The NetBackup Discovery Service runs on all clients in the environment and reports to the master server when it finds instances of applications. This service helps you to build an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP) by finding Oracle instances and displaying them in the NetBackup Administration Console and the Instances and Databases tab. When NetBackup is installed, the service checks the local client host for Oracle database instances and also checks periodically after installation (every 4 hours). Instance management collects the discovered instances in an instance repository. The user can access this repository on the NetBackup Administration Console or by using the nboraadm command.
DBAs can run nboraadm on a NetBackup client if the backup administrator enables access to nboraadm by running the following command on the master server:
# nboraadm -add_dba <client_name> <user_name>
See the nboraadm description in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
All instances that you want backed up as part of an Oracle Intelligent Policy must be registered with credentials. Instance management lets you assign credentials to individual instances as well as instance groups. The instances in an instance group share the same set of credentials. You can direct the discovery service to assign the new instances that it discovers to an instance group. The Oracle database user is required to have a certain level of credentials. The Oracle database user must have SYSBACKUP or SYSDBA privileges (based on version of Oracle).
Note:
Once an instance is associated with an Oracle RAC database, it no longer shows up as a single instance. The instance does show up if the instance was registered before it was associated with the Oracle RAC database. The instance is removed from the NetBackup Administrator's Console once it's associated with an Oracle RAC unless it was previously registered.
More Information
About the NetBackup Discovery Service
Manually adding an Oracle database instance to the repository
Registering an Oracle database instance
Creating an Oracle database instance group
Adding an instance to an instance group
Automatic Registration of an instance group
About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
Oracle database upgrade effect on Oracle Intelligent Policies