Adding MSDP admin alias users from the deduplication shell
Adding a disk volume of an MSDP server to an MSDP volume group (MVG) may require creating an alias for the MSDP default user on the MSDP server. The MVG server communicates with the MSDP server using its own credentials. If these credentials do not match the credentials of the MSDP server that the disk volume resides on, an alias MSDP user must be created on the MSDP server. The alias user credentials must match those of the MVG server.
To add an MSDP alias user
- Open an SSH session to the server as the msdpadm user, or for NetBackup Flex Scale, as an appliance administrator.
- Run the following command. In NetBackup Flex Scale, run this command on the primary node.
setting MSDP-user add-MSDP-admin-alias username=<username> password=<password> owner=<owner>
Where <username> and <password> are the username and password of the MSDP user on the MVG server, and <owner> is the username of the MSDP admin user on the MSDP server.
This command is not supported in the Deduplication shell if the MSDP container is version 20.5 or earlier.
- Run the following command to verify the alias user. Ensure that the list of users contains the new alias user and that the alias user has the same data selection ID as the MSDP server's admin user.
setting MSDP-user list
Note:
The MSDP container must be accessed with root user to run the operations directly in the container. See Configuring the MSDP server to be used by an MVG server having different credentials.