Administrator's Reference

INSERT MACHINE (Insert Machine Characteristics Information or Recovery Instructions)

Use this command to add client machine characteristics or recovery instructions to the TSM database. You can write a program to read files containing this information and generate the appropriate INSERT commands. See Administrator's Guide for details.

You can use QUERY commands to retrieve the information if a disaster occurs.

Attention: TSM does not use this information to coordinate disaster recovery or to manage the server under normal operation.

Privilege Class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege.

Syntax

>>-INsert MAchine--machine_name--sequence_number---------------->
 
>-----+-CHaracteristics--=--text-------+-----------------------><
      '-RECOVERYInstructions--=--text--'
 

Parameters

machine_name (Required)
Specifies the name of the client machine.

sequence_number (Required)
Specifies the sequence number for the line of text in the database.

CHaracteristics
Specifies machine characteristics information. You must specify the characteristics or recovery instructions, but not both. Enclose the text in quotation marks if it contains blank characters. The text can be up to 1024 characters.

RECOVERYInstructions
Specifies recovery instructions. You must specify the characteristics or recovery instructions, but not both. Enclosed the text in quotation marks if it contains blank characters. The text can be up to 1024 characters.

Examples

Task

For the machine DISTRICT5, insert this characteristics text on line 1: "Machine owner is Mary Smith".

Command:
insert machine district5 1 characteristics="Machine owner is Mary Smith"

Related Commands

Table 134. Commands Related to INSERT MACHINE

Command Description
DEFINE MACHINE Defines a machine for DRM.
DELETE MACHINE Deletes an existing machine.
QUERY MACHINE Displays information about machines.


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