IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Windows, Version 4.1

Setting up a proxy node for offloaded VSS backups in the Windows Server Core environment

If you want to offload VSS backups to the Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager, you must define a remote node to run the offloaded backups. This step is part of the configuration tasks for operating Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager on Windows Server Core.

About this task

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can offload VSS backups by using a remote computer to create the backup instead of using the local computer. To run an offload backup by using a remote node, you must first set the remote node as an agent of the local Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager node.

If you are protecting availability databases in an AlwaysOn Availability Group, you must set the remote node as an agent of the AlwaysOn node.

Before you begin, ensure that the Tivoli Storage Manager client is installed and configured on the remote computer.

Procedure

To define the proxy node relationship, the Tivoli Storage Manager administrator can issue the grant proxynode command from the Tivoli Storage Manager server administrative console.

For standard Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager nodes, issue the following command:
```
grant proxynode target=local_sql_node agent=remote_node
```
Where local_sql_node is the node name of the local Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager node, and remote_node is the remote Tivoli Storage Manager client node that runs the remote backups.
For example:
```
grant proxynode target=doomvm3_sql agent=babar
```
For AlwaysOn nodes, issue the following command:
```
grant proxynode target=alwayson_node agent=remote_node
```
Where alwayson_node is the name of the AlwaysOn node, and remote_node is the remote Tivoli Storage Manager client node that runs the remote backups.
For example:
```
grant proxynode target=myalwaysonnode agent=babar
```
To display the client nodes with authority to act as proxy to other clients, run the following command from the administrative console of the server:
```
query proxynode
```

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