Defining a Profile Association
To associate one or more units of configuration information (objects) with a configuration profile for distribution to subscribing managed servers, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task.
Profile Name
Enter the name of the configuration profile with which named
objects are to be associated. This parameter is required.
Administrator's Name
Enter a list of administrators whose information is distributed to all managed servers that subscribe to the specified profile. Administrator information includes the administrator name, password, contact information, and authorities.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list. The wildcard character (*) specifies that all administrators are distributed to subscribing managed servers. When you specify the wildcard character, you associate all existing administrators with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more administrators, the new administrators are automatically distributed via the profile.
- The SERVER_CONSOLE administrative ID is not distributed from a configuration manager to a managed server, even if a profile includes a wildcard character (*) for administrators.
- The configuration manager does not distribute information about whether an administrator is locked (preventing access to the server). An administrator on a managed server can be locked or unlocked, even if the administrator is a managed object.
Domain Name
Enter a list of domains whose information is distributed with the specified profile. This information includes definitions of policy domains, policy sets, management classes, copy groups, and client schedules. The configuration manager does not distribute the Active policy set.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list. The wildcard character (*) specifies that all domains are distributed to subscribing managed servers. When you specify the wildcard character, you associate all existing domains with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more domains, the new domains are automatically distributed via the profile.
- ATTENTION: The managed servers that subscribe to this profile must have definitions for any storage pools specified as destinations in the associated domains. Backup and archive operations will fail if destination pools do not exist. Use the Rename Storage Pool operation to rename existing storage pools on the subscribing managed servers to match the destination names distributed.
Administrative Schedule Name
Enter a list of administrative schedules whose definitions are distributed with the specified profile.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list.
- Administrative schedules are not active when they are distributed by a configuration manager. An administrator on a managed server must activate any managed schedule to have them run on the managed server.
Script Name
Enter a list of server command scripts whose definitions are distributed with the specified profile.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list.
- The wildcard character (*) specifies that all server command scripts are distributed to subscribing managed servers. When you specify the wildcard character, you associate all existing scripts with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more scripts, the new scripts are automatically distributed via the profile.
Client Option Set Name
Enter a list of client option sets whose definitions are distributed with the specified profile.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list.
- When you specify the wildcard character (*), you associate all existing client option sets with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more client option sets, the new client option sets are automatically distributed via the profile.
Server Name
Enter a list of servers whose definitions are distributed with the specified profile.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list.
- The wildcard character (*) specifies that all server definitions are distributed to subscribing managed servers. When you specify the wildcard character, you associate all existing servers with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more servers, the new servers are automatically distributed via the profile.
- For a server definition, only the following attributes are distributed: communication method, high-level address, low-level address, server password, URL, and the description. You can set other attributes, such as the server's node name, on the managed server, using the Update Server operation.
- The configuration manager does not distribute status information regarding an object on a specific server to managed servers. For example, information such as the number of days since an administrator last accessed the server is never distributed to managed servers. This type of information is maintained in the databases of the managed servers.
Server Group Name
Enter a list of server groups whose definitions are distributed with the specified profile.
- You can use a pattern-matching expression to specify an item in the list.
- When you specify the wildcard character, you associate all existing server groups with a profile without specifically naming them. If you later add more server groups, the new server groups are automatically distributed via the profile.
- If a configuration manager distributes a server definition to a managed server, and a server group by the same name exists on the managed server, the server group definition is replaced by the server definition when a configuration refresh occurs.
- A configuration manager does not distribute a server group definition to a managed server if the managed server currently has a server defined with the same name as the server group.