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  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Automating Host Group Management

Automating Host Group Management

This section includes the following topics:
  • About automating host group management

  • Task overview: managing host groups in bulk

  • Preparing to use PL/SQL utilities

  • General utilities

  • Categorize host operating systems by platform and version

  • Identifying a host group ID

  • Move or copy clients

  • Organize clients by attribute

  • Move host group

  • Delete host group

  • Move hosts and remove host groups

  • Organize clients into groups by backup server

  • Merge duplicate backup clients

  • Bulk load utilities

  • Load host aliases

  • Load details of new hosts or update existing hosts

  • Load relationships between hosts and host group

  • Veritas NetBackup utilities

  • Automate NetBackup utilities

  • Organize clients into groups by management server

  • Set up an inactive clients group

  • Set up a host group for clients in inactive policies

  • Set up clients by policy

  • Set up clients by policy type

  • IBM Tivoli storage manager utilities

  • Set up clients by policy domain

  • Set up clients by IBM Tivoli storage manager instance

  • Scheduling utilities to run automatically

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