Preparing for centralized data collection on a remote Cell Manager
Assumption: The following steps assume that HP Data Protector Cell Manager has been installed on a server that is not the same as the IT Analytics Data Collector server.
The following information will be used later when you configure a Data Collection Policy via the Portal.
On the HP Data Protector Cell Manager server:
Identify the Cell Manager Server's Name: ________________________________
Identify the OS of the Cell Manager Server: ________________________________
Identify the directory where the Cell Manager is installed. This path will be used later to fill in the Remote Software Location field when you configure the Data Collector policy in the IT Analytics Portal: ____________________________________
Typically, this location will be:
Windows: C:\Program Files\Omniback
Linux: /opt/omni
If the Data Collector is installed on a Linux OS, a WMI Proxy Server must be installed on a Windows system in order to collect data from a Cell Manager that is installed on a Windows system.
Configure the Data Collector server to be an HPDP Client.
See Configure the Data Collector server in Cell Manager (HP Data Protector).
The omnidbutil command is executed on the Cell Manager server to obtain drive status. Therefore, the following configuration is required:
The user defined in the Data Collector must be an Admin user that the Cell Manager Server recognizes--either as a local user account or a Windows domain user account--that has execute rights to the omnidbutil command.
On the IT Analytics Data Collector Server:
Make sure the Data Collector server has become the HPDP client with the HPDP User Interface component installed.
Find the directory (default is: C:\Program Files\omniback\bin) where the following commands are located and verify that the following commands exist in that directory. This validates that the User Interface was installed correctly.
omnicc
omnicellinfo
omnidb
omnidownload
omnimm
omnirpt