Configuring global preferences
As the administrator, you can configure preferences that apply to all IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus operations in the Global Preferences pane.
Before you begin
You must have administrator credentials to configure global preferences.
You can change the preference in the Integration with other storage products category at any time.
About this task
Any changes that you make to parameter default values apply to all IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operations when you save the changes.
Procedure
To edit the values for any setting and apply them globally, complete the following steps:
- In the navigation pane, click System Configuration > Global Preferences.
- To enable access to IBM Spectrum Protect
Operations Center from IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus, edit the preference in the
Integration with other storage products category. You can edit the following preference:
- IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center URL
- The IP address of IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center. The Operations Center provides web and mobile access to status information about the IBM Spectrum Protect environment.
- When this preference is set, the IBM Spectrum Protect icon is active on the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus menu bar. When you initially set the URL for this preference or if you change it, you must log off and log back in for the preference to take effect in the user interface.
- The URL is created during the Operations Center installation process. To obtain the Operations Center URL, contact the IBM Spectrum Protect system administrator.
- To apply global application preferences, edit the settings in the
Application category. The default values for the preferences are shown in the
following figure: You can edit the following application preferences:
- Enable SQL Server databases restored in test mode eligible for backup
- Back up SQL Server databases that were restored in test mode. When this option is selected, SQL Server databases that were restored in test mode are available for selection in the SQL Backup pane or ad hoc backup wizard.
- Maximum volume size for backup target LUNs on Windows (TB)
- The maximum size of the storage for a backup target.
- Maximum backup retries (k8s)
- The maximum number of times that IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus
reattempts backup sessions for a copy backup job that contains multiple persistent volume claims
(PVCs).
When multiple PVCs are involved in the same copy backup job, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus runs the backup operations as parallel jobs. To help prevent the backup sessions from timing out due to connection issues, specify the maximum number of times that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus reattempts the connections.
If the maximum number of retries is reached and connection failures still exist, only the PVC backups that were part of the failed sessions will be reported as failed.
- Maximum concurrent servers running backups
- The maximum number of concurrent application servers per backup session.
- Allow SQL database backup when transaction log backup chain is broken
- Run a database backup job when IBM Spectrum Protect Plus detects a break in the log backup chain for a database.
- Rename SQL data and log files when database is restored in production mode with new name
- Rename associated SQL database data and log files during a production or test restore job. This field applies only when a new database name is provided during an SQL database restore job.
- To apply general preferences, edit the settings in the General
category. The default values for the preferences are shown in the following
figure: You can edit the following general preferences:
- Access log retention (days)
- Enter the number of days that the access log should be retained.
- Tools working folder on Linux® guest
- The working folder for tools on Linux VM guests.
- Tools working folder on Windows guest
- The working folder for tools on Windows VM guests.
- Linux/AIX® Clients Port (SSH) used for application and file indexing
- The SSH port that is used for application and file indexing on Linux and AIX clients.
- Windows Clients Port (WinRM) used for application and file indexing
- The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) port that is used for application and file indexing on Windows clients.
- IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server IP Address
- The list of available IP addresses for the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus server. The addresses are used for remote agent
communication. If the IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus server IP address
changes, the
virgo.service
configuration must be updated to be properly reflected in associated VADP servers. For more information, see the troubleshooting section of Creating VADP proxies.
- To apply job or logging preferences, edit the values in the Job or
Logging categories. The default values for the preferences are shown in the
following figure: You can edit the following job and logging preferences:
- Job log retention (days)
- The number of days to retain job logs before the logs are deleted.
- Job notification status
- The status level for sending alerts. Alerts are sent when a job is completed with the specified status. For example, if the job notification status is failed, when the failed status is reported for a job, an alert is sent.
- Enable logging IBM Spectrum Protect Plus alerts to the system log
- Include alerts that are generated by IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the system log. After you enable this feature, you can search the system log to find alerts.
- To apply protection preferences, edit the settings in the
Protection category. The default values for the preferences are shown in the
following figure: You can edit the following protection preferences:
- Number of seconds to wait before checking connection
- The amount of time that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus waits before checking the connection to a cloud object.
- Number of times to check for valid connection
- The number of times that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus checks for an available connection.
- Temporary folder for file index zip files
- The temporary folder for storing the compressed (.zip) files that contain the metadata for indexing. When the indexing is completed, the files are deleted.
- Temporary folder for file indexing on Windows server
- The temporary folder for storing the compressed (.zip) files that contain the metadata for indexing the Windows server. When the indexing is completed, the folder is deleted.
- Group VMs by
- Virtual machines can be grouped together. The group can be defined by a count of the VMs that are included in the group or the size of the VMs that are included in the group.
- Number of VMs in group
- For VM grouping, four VM groups are available and each VM group can have a maximum of five VMs. Each group corresponds to one destination volume (data stream). A maximum of 20 VMs (four data streams) can be grouped at a time based on size calculations.
- Force the removal of the replication relationship for last remaining snapshot
- Remove an existing replication relationship for the last remaining snapshot that is set to expire and is locked.
- Target free space error (percentage)
- The percentage threshold of remaining free space in the vSnap storage pool. Errors are displayed in the job log. For example, if a value of 5 is specified, an error is displayed if the vSnap storage pool has 5% or less of remaining free space.
- Target free space warning (percentage)
- The percentage threshold of remaining free space in the vSnap storage pool. Warnings are displayed in the job log. For example, if a value of 10 is specified, a warning is displayed if the vSnap storage pool has 10% or less of remaining free space.
- Catalog object update count
- The count that you can set to limit how many objects are queried and updated in the catalog. For example, if the catalog includes 100 objects and the update count is 20, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus updates the catalog in five iterations.
- Virtual machine backup status update interval (seconds)
- The frequency at which messages about the progress of data transfer are updated in the job log.
- VADP proxy uses only HotAdd transport mode
- Use the HotAdd virtual disk transport method to connect the VMware IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance with VADP proxies. If this option is enabled, VADP proxies will use HotAdd only without falling back to an alternate transport mode.
- VM group size (GB)
- The size, in gigabytes (GB), of VM groups.
- vSnap auto disable deduplication when DDT size reaches resource limit
- The deduplication table (DDT) is enabled by default. When either of the threshold limits defined by disk space (gigabytes) or percentage is exceeded, vSnap data deduplication is disabled and an alert is displayed.
- vSnap DDT size limit as percentage of total memory cache
- The threshold as a percentage of the vSnap deduplication table (DDT) as compared to the total memory cache. The DDT is disabled when the vSnap auto disable option is selected and the defined threshold is exceeded.
- vSnap DDT size limit in GB
- The threshold, in gigabytes (GB), of the vSnap DDT. The DDT is disabled when the vSnap auto disable option is selected and the defined threshold is exceeded.
- Used space threshold on datastore or a volume before backup cannot take snapshots of a VM (percentage)
- The percentage of used space on a datastore or a volume that is the threshold before snapshots of a VM cannot be taken for backup.
- Backup wait timeout (seconds)
- The amount of time that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus waits for a backup job to finish before starting another backup job. If the backup job does not finish within the wait period, the job is timed out, and the next job begins.
- VMware connection timeout (seconds)
- The amount of time that IBM Spectrum Protect Plus waits for commands that are issued to connected vCenters to finish. If the operations do not finish within the specified amount of time, they are logged as errors. This setting applies only to VMware hypervisors.
- To apply a security preference, edit the setting in the Security
category. The default value for the preference is shown in the following figure: You can edit the following security preference:
- Set Minimum Password Length (characters)
- The minimum length of passwords for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. By default, the password has a minimum length of 8 characters, but you can specify a longer password. This value applies to all user accounts.