Generic Discovery of Hardware
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) provides a feature to discover a Windows client without performing Prepare to Discover (PTD) operation. This feature is referred to as .
To discover a Windows client using Generic Discovery
- Boot the client using Windows SRT. After you boot the client using Windows SRT, on the screen that appears, as shown in the figure, press any key to proceed to the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard.
- On the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard, click Generic Discovery of Hardware.
- Provide the details of the configuration.
(Optional) Select the Save a discovered configuration locally check box, if you want to save the discovered configuration on your local system. The discovered configuration is saved in the XML format.
- Click Do Discover.
If you have selected Save a discovered configuration locally check box and then clicked Do Discover, the discovery continues without any further user intervention required.
- If you do not select the Save a discovered configuration locally check box and click Do Discover, on the screen that appears, you must enter the following network details:
IP Address
Netmask
Gateway
NetBackup master server IP address
NetBackup master server name
- Click Contact Master Server, after you have entered all the details mentioned in Step 5.
- (Conditional to Step 5 and 6) For a client with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later installed, you must validate and confirm if the selected master server with which the client intends to establish a communication is a trusted server.
Click Yes, if you trust the master server.
For more information on how to validate the Certificate Authority (CA) hash certificate, refer to the Finding and communicating the fingerprint of a CA certificate section in the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide
- (Conditional to step 5 and 6) For a client with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later installed, you must enter the Reissue token and then click OK
Use the Certificate Management node on NetBackup Administration console to generate the Reissue token.
For more information on how to generate a reissue type of authorization token, refer to the Creating a reissue token section in the NetBackup Administration Console Help or the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
- Click OK. Discovery completes with no further user intervention required.
After a successful discovery, the discovered configuration is listed under Discovered Configuration on the NetBackup Administration console.
