Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Managing policies from the command prompt

The nsrpolicy command enables you to create, start, stop, and display the attribute of policy, workflow, action, and group resources.

The nsrpolicy command requires specific privileges which are assigned based on session authentication. NetWorker supports two types of session authentication. Token-based authentication, which requires you to run the nsrlogin before you run the command and authenticates the user that runs the command against entries that are defined in the External Roles attribute of a User Group resource. Classic authentication, which is based on user and host information and uses the user attribute of a User Group resource to authenticate a user. Classic authentication does not require an authentication token to run the command. For example, if you run the command without first running nsrlogin, NetWorker assigns the privileges to the user based on the entries that are specified in the Users attribute of the User Group resource. When you use nsrlogin to log in as a NetWorker Authentication Service user, NetWorker assigns the privileges to the user based on the entries that are specified in the External Roles attributes of the user Group resource. The NetWorker Security Configuration Guide provides more information about privileges

This section provides some examples of how to manage data protection policies from a command prompt.

The UNIX man pages and the NetWorker Command Reference Guide provide detailed information about how to use the nsrpolicy command.