IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 Administrator's Manual page 9

Managing snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Part 5. Advanced management topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 30. System backup and recovery
Save or restore hardware management policies . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
System recovery using mksysb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Creating a system backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Installing a system backup using NIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Installing a system backup using a tape device
Using the System Software Recovery CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Chapter 31. Call home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Electronic Service Agent introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Electronic Service Agent prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Installing the Electronic Service Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Initial start of Electronic Service Agent processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Configuring the Electronic Service Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Chapter 32. Inventory Scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Chapter 33. Uninterruptible power supply
Configuring a UPS on the NAS Gateway 500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Chapter 34. System upgrades and configuration changes . . . . . . . 243
Adding new hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Adding a network adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Adding a Fibre Channel HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Adding Remote Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Creating a snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Deleting a snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Renaming a snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Rolling back a snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Showing all current snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Configuring a snapshot schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Managing a snapshot schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Showing a snapshot schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Snapshot Link Management
Using NIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Backing up to tape media or a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
How the Electronic Service Agent works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Service Agent security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Installing Electronic Service Agent from SMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Installing Electronic Service Agent from a command line . . . . . . . . 206
What to do if the Electronic Service Agent installation fails . . . . . . . 206
Installing Electronic Service Agent client code . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Removing the Electronic Service Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Uninstalling Electronic Service Agent on the monitored machine . . . . . 209
Step 1: Start Connection Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Step 2: Start the Electronic Service Agent gateway . . . . . . . . . . 211
Step 3: Start the Electronic Service Agent client . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Navigating the configuration panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Accessing the basic configuration interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Performing the basic Electronic Service Agent configuration . . . . . . . 216
Configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Configuration property parameter details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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