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  2. NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
  3. Oracle policy configuration
  4. Instance management for an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
  5. About instance actions
NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

About instance actions

The Actions menu contains several operations that you can perform on the instances in the repository. Another way to perform these actions is to highlight the desired instance or instance group, then right-click and select the operation from the shortcut menu.

Table: Instance actions describes the actions or operations that you can perform on Oracle database instances.

Table: Instance actions

Action

Description

New instance

To create a new instance, select Actions > New > Instance. A New Instance dialog box appears. Enter the instance properties (instance name, host, ORACLE_HOME, and credentials).

See Manually adding an Oracle database instance to the repository.

New Instance Group

To create a new instance group, select Actions > New > Instance Group. A New Instance Group dialog box appears.

See About Oracle database instance groups.

Properties

To display instance or instance group properties, highlight the desired item. Then select Actions > Properties. The Edit Instance appears where you change the instance properties (instance name, host, ORACLE_HOME, override default TNS_admin path, and credentials).

Register

To register an instance, highlight the instance, then select Actions > Register. The Register Instance dialog box appears. Change credentials for the selected item.

See Registering an Oracle database instance.

See Adding an instance to an instance group.

Delete

To delete an instance or an instance group from the instances repository list, highlight the item to be deleted, then select Actions > Delete.

You cannot delete an instance or an instance group that is part of a policy. First, use the Instances and Databases tab to delete the instance from the policy. Then, in the instances repository list, highlight the instance to be deleted, then select Actions > Delete.

Auto Registration

To automatically register newly discovered instances as part of an instance group, highlight Instances in the left pane, then select Actions > Auto Registration.

See Automatic Registration of an instance group.

Clean up instances

This option lets you configure NetBackup to automatically clear orphaned instances from instance management. Orphaned instances are the databases that were discovered at one time but were never registered.

To enable instance cleanup, select Clean up After. Next, select how often (days) that you want NetBackup to perform instance cleanup.

Note:

If instance cleanup is enabled and auto registration activated, cleaned up instances may be rediscovered and added to the auto registration group.

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