Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Creating Data Protection Policy resources from a command prompt

Use the nsrpolicy command to create Policy, Protection Group, Workflow and action resources.

1. Optionally, use the nsrlogin command to authenticate a user and generate a token for the nsrpolicy command.
   Using nsrlogin for authentication and authorization provides more information.
2. Use the nsrpolicy command to create each Data Protection Policy resource.
   1. To create the Policy resource, type: nsrpolicy policy create --policy_name policy_name.
      where policy_name is a unique name for the Policy resource.
   2. To create a protection Group resource and add existing clients to the Group resource, type: nsrpolicy group create client -g group_name -C "client_name1,client_name2,client_name3..."
      where:

      • group_name is a unique name of the Group resource.
      • client_name1,client_name2,client_name3... is a comma separated list of client names to add to the group.
   3. To create a workflow and associate the workflow with the new Policy and Group resources, type: nsrpolicy workflow create --policy_name policy_name --workflow_name workflow_name --group_name group_name
      where:

      • policy_name is the name of the Policy resource.
      • group_name is the name of the Group resource.
      • workflow_name is a unique name for the Workflow resource.
      • Legal Characters: _ - + = # , . % @
      • Illegal Characters: /\*:?[]()$!^;'"`~><&|{}
3. Use the nsrpolicy display command to display the attributes for the new Data Protection Policy resource.
   • To display a Policy resource, type: nsrpolicy action display --policy_name policy_name

     Where policy_name is the name of the Policy resource.

   • To display a Workflow resource, type: nsrpolicy action display --workflow_name workflow_name

     Where workflow_name is the name of the Workflow resource.

   • To display a Group resource, type: nsrpolicy action display --group_name group_name