Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


Scheduling a Client Operation

To automate client operations, you can define new schedules. To later modify, copy, and delete these schedules, see Chapter 16, Managing Schedules for Client Nodes.

To set up a client schedule on the server, perform these steps:

  1. Create a client schedule. ("Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules")
  2. Associate client nodes with the schedule. (Associating Client Nodes with Schedules)
  3. Ensure that the clients start the client scheduler. (Starting the Scheduler on the Clients)
  4. Display the schedule information and check that the schedule completed successfully. (Displaying Schedule Information)

The following sections describe how to automate a basic client operation, incremental backup.

Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules


Task Required Privilege Class
Create client schedules for any policy domain System or unrestricted policy
Create client schedules for specific policy domains System, unrestricted policy, or restricted policy for those domains

Key information to have when scheduling operations are:

TSM provides two sample schedules: one for daily backups and one for weekly backups. The sample schedules use defaults for many of their values. You can copy and modify them to create customized schedules that meet your requirements.

Administrators can follow these steps to create schedules for client node operations. To later modify, copy, and delete these schedules, see Chapter 16, Managing Schedules for Client Nodes.

  1. Double-click the TSM Console icon on the server desktop.
  2. Expand the tree until the TSM server you want to work with is displayed. Expand the server and click Wizards. The Wizards list appears in the right pane.
  3. Select the Schedule Configuration wizard and click Start. The Scheduling Wizard appears.
  4. Follow the instructions in the wizard, clicking Next until the TSM Scheduling Options dialog appears.
  5. Click the Add button. The Add Schedules dialog appears.
  6. Click Help for assistance with this dialog.
  7. When you are finished, click OK or Apply.

As an alternative to using the TSM Console, you can define and associate schedules by using the TSM command line interface or the administrative Web interface. Commands used for defining schedules are listed under Commands for Scheduling Client Operations.

To tailor the parameters you choose when you create your schedules, see the DEFINE SCHEDULE command in the Administrator's Reference.

Associating Client Nodes with Schedules


Task Required Privilege Class
Associate client nodes with schedules System, unrestricted policy, or restricted policy for the policy domain to which the schedule belongs

Client nodes must be associated with schedules before they can use the TSM Scheduler. You can associate client nodes with schedules using the scheduling wizard. An individual node can be associated with more than one schedule. To associate the client nodes with a schedule:

  1. Double-click the TSM Console icon on the server desktop.
  2. Expand the tree until the TSM server you want to work with is displayed. Expand the server and click Wizards. The Wizards list appears in the right pane.
  3. Select the Schedule Configuration wizard and click Start. The Scheduling Wizard appears.
  4. Follow the instructions in the wizard, clicking Next until the TSM Scheduling Options dialog appears. See Figure 52.

    The dialog appears with ALL NODES highlighted in the left pane and a listing of all registered client nodes in the right pane. ALL NODES is not a schedule; selecting it gives you a view of all registered nodes.

    Figure 52. Scheduling Wizard Displaying All Schedules and Registered Client Nodes

    Scheduling Wizard Displaying All Schedules and Registered Client Nodes

  5. Click ALL NODES in the left pane. All registered client nodes appear in the right pane.
  6. Click a schedule in the left pane. All client nodes associated with the schedule appear in the right pane.
  7. With ALL NODES selected, drag and drop a client node (from the right pane) onto a schedule (in the left pane). The node that you drop on a schedule is associated with the schedule.

    For example, to associate the MARKETING node with the DAILY_INCR schedule, drag and drop the MARKETING node onto the DAILY_INCR schedule. You do not see the effect of the drag and drop until you select the schedule on which you dropped the node.

  8. Click the schedule on which you dropped the node. The associated node appears in the right pane.

    For example, when you click the DAILY_INCR schedule in the left pane, the node MARKETING now appears in the right pane. See Figure 53.

Figure 53. Scheduling Wizard Displaying Node MARKETING Associated with the DAILY_INCR Schedule

Scheduling Wizard Displaying Node MARKETING Associated with the DAILY_INCR Schedule

Starting the Scheduler on the Clients

The client scheduler must be started before work scheduled by the administrator can be initiated. Administrators must ensure that users start the TSM Scheduler on the client, application client, or Tivoli Data Protection host server directory, and that the scheduler is running at the schedule start time. After the client scheduler starts, it continues to run and initiates scheduled events until it is stopped.

The way that users start the TSM Scheduler varies, depending on the operating system that the machine is running. The user can choose to start the client scheduler automatically when the operating system is started, or can start it manually at any time. The user can also have the client acceptor manage the scheduler, starting the scheduler only when needed. For instructions on these tasks, see Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients and the appropriate client user's guide.

Note:
TSM does not recognize changes made to the client options file while the scheduler is running. If you make changes to this file while the scheduler is running, and you want TSM to use these new values immediately, stop the scheduler and restart it.

Displaying Schedule Information


Task Required Privilege Class
Display information about scheduled operations Any administrator

You can display information about schedules and whether the schedules ran successfully.

Displaying Schedule Details

When you request information about schedules, the server displays the following information:

The following output shows an example of a report that is displayed after you enter:

query schedule engpoldom
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Domain       * Schedule Name    Action Start Date/Time      Duration Period Day |
|------------ - ---------------- ------ -------------------- -------- ------ --- |
|ENGPOLDOM      MONTHLY_BACKUP   Inc Bk 07/21/1998 12:45:14      2 H    2 Mo Sat |
|ENGPOLDOM      WEEKLY_BACKUP    Inc Bk 07/21/1998 12:46:21      4 H    1 W  Sat |
|                                                                                |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Checking the Status of Scheduled Operations

For TSM, a schedule completes successfully as long as the command associated with the schedule is successfully issued. The success of the issued command is independent of the success of the schedule.


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