Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations, Version 6.1.2

Discovering preexisting clients and assigning them to groups

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

  1. Identify the administration folders that are used by the preexisting clients.
    1. Open the Administration Settings task. The administration tables are displayed.
    2. In the Administration Folders section, click Actions.
    3. Click Identify an Administration Folder. The Identify an Administration Folder panel is displayed.
    4. 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.
    5. Click OK.
    The preexisting clients are discovered by the central administration console.
  2. 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.
    1. Open the Clients task. The Clients panel displays the following tabs: Health, Storage, and Deployment.
    2. In any view of the Clients task, click the Group column heading.
    3. 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.
    4. Select all the clients that you want to add to one group.
    5. In the Actions menu, click Assign Clients to a Group, and select a group from the list.
    6. Click OK. The clients are displayed in the table in the Clients task again. The clients are members of the group you selected.