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IBM Storage Protect | Scan Requirements

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Oz Gabriely
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[ Applies to ] StorageGuard 9.x and later   /   IBM Storage Protect (formerly Spectrum Protect, TSM)   /   Main hub server with the Administrative Client

StorageGuard collects configuration data from IBM Storage Protect (formerly Spectrum Protect and TSM) by running read-only dsmadmc commands on a main hub server that has the IBM Administrative Client installed. This article describes the requirements and how to prepare the scan accounts.

Requirements

Requirement Details
Hub server address The network name or IP address of each main hub server with the administrative command-line client installed.
OS account A user name and password for an OS account on each main hub server. The account must be able to access /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmerror.log.
Administrative Client account A user account for the IBM Administrative Client that can run read-only commands, such as QUERY SERVER and QUERY OPTION.
Server communication The main hub server must be configured to communicate with the other Storage Protect servers, and have IP connectivity to each of them.
Note: On a newly installed Storage Protect Linux system, you may need to configure files such as /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.opt and /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys. See the IBM Storage Protect documentation for installation and configuration details.

Hub server OS requirements

Host OS Account Network access
UNIX / Linux A regular user account. SSH (port 22 by default) from the StorageGuard server to each hub server.
Windows An account with the Remote Management role. WinRM (ports 80 and 5985) and CIFS (port 445) from the StorageGuard server to each hub server. If your organization doesn't use WinRM, allow WMI on all TCP ports and on UDP ports 135, 137, 138, and 139.

Create a scan account

The following procedure is a suggested way to prepare the accounts. The example uses the Administrative Client user name sguard; you can use any user name.

  1. In the Administrative Client (dsmadmc), set the scan user's password and session security. Replace <password> with the account password:

    update user sguard <password> sessionsecurity=transitional

  2. On the hub server, give the OS account access to the client error log:

    chmod 666 /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmerror.log

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