This chapter includes instructions for the following
tasks:
Note: | Unless otherwise specified, references in this manual to Windows 95 also include Windows 98. References to Windows NT also include Windows 2000. |
The following information assumes that you have installed TSM. If you have not installed TSM, see Installing the Clients, SH26-4102, for installation information.
If you plan to use a Web client with an enterprise management server, ensure that you were assigned an administrative user id with system privilege, policy privilege, client access, or clientowner authority.
Before you can use TSM, you must register your client with the server. The process of setting up a node name and password is called registration, and is performed by your administrator.
TSM provides two types of registration: open and closed. Your administrator chooses the type of registration for your site.
With closed registration, an administrator must register your workstation as a client node with the server. If your enterprise uses closed registration, you need to provide the following information to your administrator:
In addition to possibly defining certain options in your options file, your administrator defines the following for you:
With open registration, you can register your workstation as a client node with the server.
The first time you start a session, TSM prompts you for information necessary to register your workstation with the server identified in your options file. You need to supply your node name, a password, and contact information.
When you use open registration:
If necessary, your administrator can change these defaults later.
For more information about TSM client services, see Installing The Clients, SH26-4102.
Note: | This section refers to Windows NT and Windows 2000, only. |
By default, the TSM client services run under the local system account. Becaise the services use logon properties such as persistent drive mappings, and local search path and environment variables of the account into which they are logged, consider having the services account run under a domain account instead of the local system account.
Domain resources, such as network drives, can only be accessed by services configured to run under a domain authorized account using dsmcutil or the Service Control Panel Application. Any non-system account (local or domain) must have the following rights:
Without these rights, users can only back up files they own, not files owned by another or owned by the system registry.
Start a GUI session using one of the following methods:
Your administrator can require you to use a password to connect to the server. TSM prompts you for the password, if one is required. Contact your administrator if you do not know your password. See Changing Your Password for information about changing your password.
Note: | For Windows NT, in order to back up the entire system, including the system
registry, your user ID must belong to the administrator group or domain
administrator group which has the following rights:
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When the GUI client starts initially and does not find an options file, a setup wizard displays to guide you through the configuration process. You can also display the setup wizard by selecting Utilities>Setup Wizard from the TSM main window. To perform configuration tasks, follow instructions on the screen. The Setup Wizard is not available through the Web client.
An alternate way to start the client is from the command line. However, if TSM does not find an options file, it displays an error message and stops processing. In that case, see your administrator to determine the name of the options file TSM should use.
Start a command line session using one of the following methods:
Note: | For Windows NT, in order to back up the entire system, including the system
registry, your user ID must belong to the administrator group or domain
administrator group which has the following rights:
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These are local user rights and must be set using the local User Manager application, and domain accounts may not automatically be enabled for them. Domain accounts may be granted local rights by the local User Manager.
The account must also have the following permissions to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_KEY_USERS, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hives:
The local system account and local Administrator group have these permissions by default. Other accounts/groups (including domain Administrators) must be granted these permissions either explicitly through the registry editor security dialog (regedt32), or implicitly by adding the account/group to the local Administrators group through the local User Manager (recommended).
For more information about using the command line client, see "Starting and Ending a Client Command Session".
For more information about client services, see Installing The Clients, SH26-4102.
You can include options on the dsmc command. For example, your organization might have two machines that back up to TSM under separate node names. To recover a file from one machine (galaxy1) while at the other machine (galaxy2), you will need access to galaxy1. A recommended way to gain access is to issue the set access command.
For example, assume the file to be recovered on galaxy1 is c:\universe\saturn. The owner of galaxy1 enters the following command:
dsmc set ac archive c:\universe\saturn galaxy2
Once access is granted, you would gain access by entering:
dsmc retrieve fromnode=galaxy1 c:\universe\saturn
Access to another user's files may also be granted and gained using the GUI.
For more information about set access, see Set Access. For more information about fromnode, see Fromnode.
You can use the Web client to perform backup, archive, restore, and retrieve operations from machines or platforms that support at least a Java 1.1.6-capable browser, such as Netscape Navigator 4.06 or higher, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher. Using the Web client, you can back up and restore your own data, or an administrator can centralize the backup or restore operations of many clients. To use the Web client, specify the URL of the client machine running the Web client in your Web browser. The Web client is only supported on a server that is Version 3 or higher.
If the Web client was not installed during the installation process, you can use the command line or the setup wizard to install and configure it.
To use the setup wizard, perform the following steps:
To install and configure the Web client from the command line, perform the following steps:
dsmc query session
and, when prompted, enter your user id and password. For important information about how passwords operate on the native client and the Web client, see 5.
On Windows NT, you can also use the client services utility (dsmcutil) to generate passwords and validate them with the server.
The Web client agent service starts automatically when needed.
The only options you can use with the dsmcad command are optfile, httpport, and httpsport.
Note: | Use the revokeremoteaccess option to restrict an administrator with client access privilege from accessing your workstation through the Web client. Administrators with client owner privilege, system privilege, or policy privilege can access the Web client. For more information see Revokeremoteaccess. |
http://your_machine_name:1581
where your_machine_name is the hostname of the machine running the Web client.
Port 1581 is the default port number. Your administrator can set a different port number using the httpport option. See Httpport for more information.
The Web client workstation can also be accessed through the Web administrative GUI. To use the Web client with secure socket layer (SSL) communications, see TSM Installing the Clients, SH26-4102.
To back up the entire system registry, you must belong to a Windows NT group which has the following rights:
Users without these rights can only back up files they own and cannot back up the system registry or files owned by other users. These are local user rights and must be set using the local User Manager application, and domain accounts may not automatically be enabled for them. Domain accounts may be granted local rights by the local User Manager.
The account must also have the following permissions to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_KEY_USERS, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hives:
The local system account and local administrator group have these permissions by default. Other accounts/groups (including domain Administrators) must be granted these permissions either explicitly through the registry editor security dialog (regedt32), or implicitly by adding the account/group to the local Administrators group through the local User Manager (recommended).
All Web client messages are written to the Web client log file, dsmwebcl.log. Error messages are written to the error log file. The dsmwebcl.log file and the error log file are located in the directory specified by the errorlogname option. See Chapter 8, "Setting Common Options" for more information.
For more information about TSM client services, see Installing the Clients, SH26-4102.
Note: | Install the command-line client if you want to use the client scheduler. This client permits you to request TSM services with commands rather than with the GUI. |
You can start the client scheduler automatically when you start your machine. If the administrator has defined schedules for your node, starting the client scheduler permits TSM to automatically back up your machine (or perform other scheduled actions). See Chapter 5, "Automating TSM Tasks" for more information about the client scheduler.
Your administrator can require you to use a password to connect to the server. TSM prompts you for the password if one is required. Contact your administrator if you do not know your password.
If you are using passwords, you should change them regularly to restrict access to your data.
To change your password from the GUI:
A TSM password can be up to 64 characters. Valid characters
are:
Character | Description |
A-Z | Any letter; A through Z, upper or lower case |
0-9 | Any number; 0 through 9 |
+ | Plus |
. | Period |
_ | Underscore |
- | Hyphen |
& | Ampersand |
A password is not case sensitive. See Password for additional password information.
You can sort a list of files by various attributes, such as name, directory, size, or modification date. Sorting files by the last backup date can be useful in determining what date and time to use for the point-in-time function (see "Using Point-in-Time Restore").
To sort a file list, select one of the Sort by items from the View menu bar. Or, click the appropriate column heading in the File List box.
The Show active/inactive files menu option controls whether TSM lists both active and inactive backup versions of files. TSM only lists the active backup versions of files during a session, unless the Show active/inactive files menu option is selected. An active file is the most recent backup version of a file that existed on your workstation when you ran your last backup. All other backup versions of that file are called inactive. If you delete the file from your workstation, the active version becomes inactive the next time you run an incremental backup.
You can display online help in any one of the following ways:
To receive technical support for TSM:
http://www.tivoli.com/storage
To participate in online user discussions of TSM, subscribe to an Internet Listserv forum. This is not officially supported by TSM, but support people do participate in the discussions, along with other users.
You can subscribe by sending a note to Listserv@vm.marist.edu that contains:
subscribe adsm-l yourfirstname yourlastname
Posts can then be sent to adsm-l@vm.marist.edu.
An anonymous FTP server is available where you can find PTF maintenance and other TSM- related materials. In addition, four other anonymous servers are unofficially maintained by non-IBM volunteers. These servers are:
ftp.software.ibm.com (primary - Colorado, IBM) ftp.wu-wien.ac.at (mirror - Austria) ftp.cac.psu.edu (mirror - Pennsylvania) sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages (mirror - North Carolina)
If you have the required username and password, you can get maintenance information from the TSM support page at http://www.support.tivoli.com.
You can end a TSM session in any one of the following ways:
Click the X icon in the upper right corner.