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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2022

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More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups.

Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given.

For this we use the "disable session" command.


However, there are cases where we don't want to disable all client connections.

For example, we want to specifically allow a single client to carry out an important backup or restore during a Spectrum Protect Server maintenance without immediately reactivating all nodes.

Alternatively, we would generally like to allow clients to perform restores on a Spectrum Protect server during maintenance.


In principle, it would be possible to remove all client schedule associations from the scheduler before the starting mainenance (without disable sessions).

Backups are no longer carried out and restores are still possible. Backups controlled by local scripts (e.g. Oracle / SAP) would continue to run and could not be interrupted with any other method.


My suggestion:


1. Extension of the "disable/enable sessions client" command with a new option to specify whether backup/restore/all client connections are prevented

2. Extension of the "disable/enable sessions client" command with a new option to disable/enable individual client nodes

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     May 13, 2022

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

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