Policy based exclusion list

[Obi_Wan]

Looking for the procedure to have an exclusion list at the policy level that protects multiple clients instead of having to create one per client.

[RiaanBadenhorst]

What are the Client OSs? This isn't really possible as the exclusions are kept on the clients themselves.

[Obi_Wan]

These are Windows cllients.

So you're saying we have to touch each client (over 300) vs having this enabled at the policy level even if the exclusion is common to all clients?

[Andy_Welburn]

Things like this & 'global' exclusions have been a requirement for many for some time now - just browse the Ideas section!

Initially, you could always use the GUI - highlight & right-click a group of clients (not too many at once) within the policy & select 'Host Properties' - creating your excludes 'en-masse'. Still time consuming & will obviously not cover any new clients to the policy. Unfortunately you'll need to type the policy (& schedule if excluding at that level) as the drop-downs on the GUI are not populated.

Maybe time to submit another Idea ....... ?

[RiaanBadenhorst]

You don't enable it on the policy level, an exclude list is configured in the host properties of the client, which in fact makes a connection to the client's registry. You can use something like this https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/exclude-list-0#comment-1547241 , but you'll need to manage the script / manual updates of the exclude lists

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Yes. If you read NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I  , you will see that Exclude List on Windows Clients is configured in Host Properties -> Clients -> Client name.

The settings are stored in the registry of each individual client.

If all settings will be the same, you can select a bunch of client names simultaneously. 
Do not select more than 10 at the same time, as connection need to be established to all clients and existing registry entries queried.

If your scripting knowledge is good, you can probably do it with 'bpsetconfig'.
See NetBackup Commands Reference Guide  for details.
 

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Hi Andy,

Considering we have write access to all systems one would assume its easy to make a sciprt/binary that updates the exclude list on all or selected system. if this was running on NIX you could just restore the exclude list (once created and backed up from somewhere) to which ever clients need it. Small and quick to do :)

[Obi_Wan]

Thanks Marianne.

Also, i'll contact PM to see if this can make it into a future build.