Adding clients to a policy
The client list is the list of hosts on which your batch files are run during an automatic backup. 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 SQL Server policy, clients you want to add must have the following items installed or available:
SQL Server
NetBackup client or server
The backup or restore batch files
Note:
Each batch file must be present on each client.
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.
- Before you can add clients, you must select Clients for use with batch files on the Instances and Databases tab.
- Click the Clients tab and click New.
- Type the name of the client and select the hardware and operating system of the client.
If SQL Server is installed in a cluster, specify the virtual name of the SQL Server as the client name.
Note:
If you installed NetBackup on more than one node in the SQL Server cluster, you must perform additional configuration.
See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.
See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines .
- 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.