Manage Tivoli® Continuous Data Protection
for Files clients
and Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
for Workstations clients
that existed before you installed the central administration console.
Before you begin
This task assumes that you or client users installed Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files clients
or Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
for Workstations clients
before you installed the central administration console, or you
installed the clients without a configuration file that was generated
by the central administration console.
If
you want to manage the clients by groups, you must create the groups.
About this task
You can discover and manage
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files clients
and
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
for Workstations clients.
Procedure
- Identify the administration folders that are used by the
preexisting clients.
- Open the Administration Settings task. The administration tables are displayed.
- In the Administration Folders section,
click Actions.
- Click Identify an Administration Folder. The Identify an Administration Folder panel
is displayed.
- Enter data in the required fields: Alias and Administration folder. The value of the Select a group for new clients and Select a script for new clients fields
does not affect preexisting clients.
- Click OK.
The preexisting clients are discovered by the central administration console.
- Optional: If you want to manage the clients
by groups, assign the clients to appropriate groups. Clients
that existed before you installed the central administration console are not
automatically added to groups.
- Open the Clients task. The Clients panel
displays the following tabs: Health, Storage,
and Deployment.
- In any view of the Clients task,
click the Group column
heading.
- Scroll the list of clients to find the clients that
belong to group none. When a preexisting client is discovered, it is not automatically
added to a group. Find preexisting clients in the table by filtering
clients that belong to group none.
- Select all the clients that you want to add to one group.
- In the Actions menu,
click Assign Clients to a Group,
and select a group from the list.
- Click OK. The clients are displayed in the table in the Clients task
again. The clients are members of the group you selected.