For longer term protection, you can offload data from IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus to IBM
Spectrum Protect.
About this task
An IBM
Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on
an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus data to an IBM
Spectrum Protect object client on an AIX system by first setting up
an object agent on a Linux x86_64 operating system. The standalone object agent is available only on
the Linux x86_64 operating system.
After the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus object client sends data
to the IBM
Spectrum Protect object agent on Linux x86_64, the
object agent transfers data to an IBM
Spectrum Protect object
client on AIX.
Procedure
To offload data from IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus to an
IBM
Spectrum Protect server on AIX, complete the following
configuration steps:
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On the AIX server, issue the following IBM
Spectrum Protect administrative command:
setopt EnableAIXS3Interface Yes
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On the AIX server, define an object agent by issuing the following IBM
Spectrum Protect administrative command. To set the high-level
address (HLA) and low-level address (LLA), use the IP address of the host system and port that the
object agent will use.
define server object_agent_name
hla=object_agent_host_system_ip_address
lla=object_agent_port objectagent=yes
Tip: The default value for the object agent port is 9000. If a local object agent is
already running on the system, the object agent that is being configured for the AIX server must use
a different port number from that of the existing object agent.
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Download the following scripts to the object agent host system:
Either IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus or an IBM
Spectrum Protect server can be installed on the object agent host
system.
If the IBM
Spectrum Protect server is installed, you can use
the spObjectAgent file in the server directory and you do not have to download
the agent and its scripts again.
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Ensure that the following files have executable permissions:
- spObjectAgent
- startObjectAgent.sh
- spObjectAgent.rc
- spObjectAgent.rc.u
- delObjectAgentSvc.sh
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From the AIX server system, copy the following two items to a directory on the object agent
host system on Linux:
- Object agent server directory
- Server public certificate
The object agent server directory was created when you ran the
DEFINE SERVER
command. The directory includes the following file and certificates:
- A configuration file for creating and starting an object agent service
- Certificates for communication between the object agent and the server
The object agent server directory is created in the server's instance directory:
/server_instance_home_dir/object_agent_name.
For example,
/home/tsminst1/OBJAGENT1
The server public certificate (cert256.arm) is typically located in the
server instance directory.
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In the object agent server directory that you copied in the previous step, locate the object
agent configuration file
(spObjectAgent_objectagentname_serverport.config).
For example:
spObjectAgent_OBJAGENT1_1500.config
In the configuration file, update the locations of the following files. For
example:
objagentexe=\"/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/spObjectAgent\"
keystore="/home/tsminst1/OBJAGENT1/agentcert.p12"
pwdfile="/home/tsminst1/OBJAGENT1/agentcert.pwd"
serverkeypub="/home/tsminst1/OBJAGENT1/cert256.arm"
agentconfig=\"/home/tsminst1/OBJAGENT1/spObjectAgent_OBJAGENT1_1500.config\"
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Override the SERVERHLA parameter in the object agent configuration file by
using the AIX server IP address:
serverhla=aix_server_ip_address
Tip: The object agent uses this value to locate the IBM
Spectrum Protect server.
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To create and start the object agent on the host system, run the
startObjectAgent.sh script with the configuration file:
startObjectAgent.sh spObjectAgent_objectagentname_serverport.config
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Register an object agent client on the AIX server by issuing the following IBM
Spectrum Protect server command:
register node nodename type=objectclient
Important: Record the login user ID and password that are automatically generated. You
will need the credentials to connect to the object agent.
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To connect the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus object client to
the object agent, go to the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus online
documentation and follow the instructions in Adding a repository server as a backup storage provider.