About Instance management for a SQL Server Intelligent Policy
Instance management displays the instances that it discovers in the Applications > Microsoft SQL Server node of the NetBackup Administration Console. Any instances you add manually are also displayed in this node. Once the instances are registered, you can build a SQL Server Intelligent Policy.
DBAs can run nbsqladm on a NetBackup client if the backup administrator authorizes a specific user and host on the master server. See the nbsqladm description in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
When NetBackup discovers a SQL Server host that uses multiple NICs, it adds the host with its NetBackup client name. If you installed the NetBackup client with the public interface name, further configuration is required before you can perform backups.
See Configuring the NetBackup client with the private interface name.
See Configuring backups of SQL Server when you have multiple NICs (SQL Server Intelligent Policies).
For a SQL Server cluster or a SQL Server cluster with multiple NICs, NetBackup adds a single entry or one instance to instance management. For a cluster, the host name for that instance is the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster. For a SQL Server cluster with multiple NICs the host name for that instance is the public virtual name of the SQL Server cluster. Further configuration is required both these environments before you can perform backups.
See Configuring backups of clustered SQL Server instances (SQL Server Intelligent Policy) .
See Registering a SQL Server instance.
See Registering instances automatically (NetBackup for SQL).