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  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management
  5. Task overview: managing host groups in bulk

Task overview: managing host groups in bulk

To manage host groups in large quantities, perform the following sequence of steps:

  1. Learn about host groups.

    Search online documentation for Host Group.

  2. Learn about bulk host group management.

    See About automating host group management.

  3. Prepare your SQL environment so that you can run the utilities.

    See Preparing to use PL/SQL utilities.

  4. Based on the type of update you want to make to the Reporting Database, choose the utility that can perform that action.

    • See General utilities.

    • See Merge duplicate backup clients.

    • See Veritas NetBackup utilities.

    • See IBM Tivoli storage manager utilities.

  5. (Optional) Schedule utilities to run automatically.

    See Scheduling utilities to run automatically.

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