Multiple directives per client?

Question

I'm setting up a brand new Legato Networker 7.2.1 environment. We have about 200 clients and many of them have multiple applications running. Does anyone have any tips for creating directives in this environment? For example:

ServerA - SQL server open files, plus Openview open files
ServerB - SQL server open files, plus custom lock files
ServerC - SQL server open files only

I can't find a way to select multiple Global directives for one client configuration. Do I really need to create three custom Global directives for these clients? There must be a better way... We can't put local directives on each client, as maintaining them would be too difficult for our small administration team.

Thanks,
Jessica

DavidHampson · Accepted Answer

You can only apply one global directive to a client; however you can combine with Networker User Local Directives (set in the file networkr.cfg in the root of a file system - this is created in the Networker User program) or with Local Directives (.nsr or nsr.dir files in directories which have a similar form to global directives).

My recommendation would be to keep it as central as possible. i.e. stick with global directives, even if it means you have to write several global directives to achieve your aims.

DavidHampson · Answer

A further note - if you do go with multiple types of directives remember the precedence rules:

global directives > Networker user directives > local directives

A further note on directives - if you run a local (manual) backup from the GUI it runs as save -I (ignore local directives); global directives only apply to scheduled (server-initiated) backups.

jgreen7 · Answer

Thank you, very much! This is exactly what I was looking for.Jessica

53y1qA4e5v12046 · Answer

How to see the difference between local and global directives? << / >> means the global one and < > means local to a particular server? Please suggest. Thanks, -Shyam

ble1 · Answer

Nope; global are applied on server side (within the client resourse) and local are applied at client OS itself.

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