Veritas NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

Instance management for an Oracle Intelligent Policy

The NetBackup Discovery Service runs on all clients in the environment and reports to the master server when it finds instances of applications. This service helps you to build an Oracle Intelligent Policy by finding Oracle instances and displaying them in the NetBackup Administration Console and the Instances and Databases tab. When NetBackup is installed, the service checks the local client host for Oracle database instances and also checks periodically after installation (every 4 hours). Instance management collects the discovered instances in an instance repository. The user can access this repository on the NetBackup Administration Console or by using the nboraadm command.

DBAs can run nboraadm on a NetBackup client if the backup administrator enables access to nboraadm by running the following command on the master server:

# nboraadm -add_dba <client_name> <user_name>

See the nboraadm description in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

All instances that you want backed up as part of an Oracle Intelligent Policy must be registered with credentials. Instance management lets you assign credentials to individual instances as well as instance groups. The instances in an instance group share the same set of credentials. You can direct the discovery service to assign the new instances that it discovers to an instance group. The Oracle database user is required to have a certain level of credentials. The Oracle database user must have SYSBACKUP or SYSDBA privileges (based on version of Oracle).

See About Oracle database instance groups.