NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Selecting the snapshot method
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- NAS snapshot configuration
- Dynamic data streaming for D-NAS workloads
- Setting up a NAS-Data-Protection policy
- FlashBackup configuration
- Instant Recovery configuration
- About Instant Recovery
- About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
- About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
- Configuration of software-based snapshot methods
- Support for Cluster Volume Manager Environments (CVM)
- Configuration of snapshot methods for disk arrays
- OS-specific configuration tasks
- About IBM DS6000 and DS8000 arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the IBM DS6000 or DS8000 array
- About IBM DS4000 array
- About Hitachi SMS/WMS/AMS, USP/NSC, USP-V/VM
- Hitachi array software requirements
- About HP-XP arrays
- About array troubleshooting
- Notes on Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Backup and restore procedures
- Snapshot management
- Troubleshooting
- Logging directories for UNIX platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- FlashBackup and status code 13
- Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
- Appendix B. Overview of snapshot operations
Discover plugins
Discover plugin is a generic ISM feature that is available for all array plugin's whether it is a NAS or SAN plugin. This is not specific to NAS-Data-Protection policy.
You can trigger Plugin discovery from Java UI or using the tpconfig CLI. When you trigger plugin discovery, JAVA UI internally invokes tpconfig to perform the discovery operation. This operation is synchronous. It does not return till the discovery operation is complete.
To discover plugins:
Get all the configured plugins from the
CloudPoint_plugin.conf
file.Get the unique plugin types from the configured plugins.
Get all configured plugins from CloudPoint for every plugin type (1 CloudPoint API for 1 plugin type).
Update existing plugin info in-memory (discovery status and time).
Persist the updated plugin info in
CloudPoint_plugin.conf
file.Return the updated plugin info to the User/JavaUI.
Run the command:
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -discover_plugin -cloudpoint_server <cloudpoint_server_name> -plugin_id <plugin_id_name>
Discovery status (CLI):
To perform discovery in Java UI
- On the left, expand Media and Device Management> Credentials > click Snapshot Management Servers.
- Right-click the required CloudPoint plugin, click Discover assets.
You can view the discovery status for different plugins in NetBackup Admin console.