Adding clients to a policy
The client list contains a list of the clients on which your scripts are run during an automatic backup or the clients that can send backup requests to the application schedule. A NetBackup client must be in at least one policy but can be in more than one.
NetBackup attempts to run each script in the backup selections list for each client in the client list. If a script is not valid on a particular client, the script is skipped. (For example, if the Oracle home that is specified in the script does not exist on that client.) A policy can contain multiple clients and multiple scripts. Only a subset of the scripts needs to be valid on each client. If the valid scripts are successful, the entire backup is successful.
For a NetBackup for Sybase policy, clients you want to add must have the following items installed or available:
Sybase
NetBackup client or server
The backup or restore Sybase scripts
The backup or restore scripts
The backup shell scripts
To add clients to a policy
- Open the policy you want to edit or create a new policy.
To access the Policy dialog box, double-click the policy name in the Policies list in the NetBackup Administration Console.
- Click the Clients tab and click New.
- Type the name of the client and select the hardware and operating system of the client.
If Sybase is installed in a cluster, specify the virtual name of the Sybase server as the client name.
Note:
If you installed NetBackup on more than one node in the Sybase cluster, you must perform additional configuration.
See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.
- Choose one of the following:
To add another client, click Add.
If this client is the last client you want to add, click OK.
- In the Policy dialog box, click OK.