Identifying Inactive Clients (For Veritas NetBackup)
Note:
Beginning with release version 10.1, the host groups mentioned in this section are no longer automatically created. For legacy systems, if these host groups are no longer desired, a serverGroupCleanup utility can be used to re-locate the clients and then delete the system-generated group. See the System Administrator Guide.
There are two types of inactive clients, and in both cases these clients are not being backed up, maybe intentionally or unintentionally:
Clients Not in Policy are not part of a policy at the time that a new Data Collector was added. Often these clients are resolved at the time of installation.
Inactive Policy Clients were once part of a policy, but are not anymore.
To identify inactive clients
- Navigate to Inventory.
- Activate the Host Group view.
- Select the Veritas NetBackup host group.
- Select the Clients Not in Policy host group. If you notice that there are clients in this host group, either assign them to a policy--if they should be backed up--or delete them. In some cases, you might determine that a client need not be backed up and should be removed. In this case, refer to Deleting Hosts.
See Deleting Hosts.
- Select the Inactive Policy Clients host group. If you notice that there are many clients in the Inactive Policy Clients host group and all these clients are supposed to be backed up by the same backup server, you probably accidently disabled the policy and need to enable it. In some cases, you might determine that a client does not need to be backed up, and should be removed. In this case, refer to Deleting Hosts.
See Deleting Hosts.
- Give the Data Collector time to refresh its list of clients. Every night the Data Collector queries your backup servers for a list of clients and assigns clients to their appropriate host groups.