HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 Configuration Guide

3 Setting up Application Agent ............................................................. 55
About Application Agent ........................................................................................................... 55
Application Agent functions ................................................................................................. 55
System requirements and supported environments ......................................................................... 56
Application Agent system requirements .................................................................................. 56
Host OS and database server requirements ..................................................................... 57
Database and backup server requirements ...................................................................... 60
Additional server requirements ...................................................................................... 64
VSS Provider requirements ............................................................................................. 67
Storage systems requirements ........................................................................................ 68
Cluster support ................................................................................................................... 69
Cluster considerations .................................................................................................. 70
Virtual environments supported by Application Agent .................................................................... 70
VMware ESX/ESXi Server .................................................................................................... 70
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ........................................................................................... 72
Memory required for running Application Agent on a virtual machine of Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V ........................................................................................................................... 73
Application Agent installation location ......................................................................................... 73
Application Agent installation path restrictions ........................................................................ 74
If you plan to install Application Agent on the management server ............................................ 74
Installing Application Agent ....................................................................................................... 74
Adding Application Agent to the Windows Firewall Exception list ................................................... 76
Application Agent and P9000 RAID Manager ............................................................................. 76
Command line interface for P9000 RAID Manager ................................................................ 77
Protection function of P9000 RAID Manager .......................................................................... 77
Using P9000 RAID Manager to configure pair volumes ........................................................... 77
Device Manager and P9000 RAID Manager ......................................................................... 77
Starting and stopping P9000 RAID Manager ......................................................................... 77
Settings for Application Agent in a cluster configuration (MSCS) ..................................................... 77
Application Agent and Replication Manager log output ................................................................. 79
Changing Application Agent port numbers .................................................................................. 79
Starting and stopping the Application Agent Services .................................................................... 80
Copy Controller service ....................................................................................................... 80
Common Agent service ....................................................................................................... 80
Setting error logging options for Application Agent ....................................................................... 81
4 Operating the management server ..................................................... 83
About executing commands on the management server ................................................................. 83
User permissions ................................................................................................................ 83
Setting up the PATH environment variable in Linux ................................................................... 83
Starting and stopping Replication Manager ................................................................................. 83
Starting Replication Manager ............................................................................................. 84
Stopping Replication Manager ............................................................................................ 84
Checking the operation status of Replication Manager ........................................................... 84
Changing settings in the properties files ....................................................................................... 85
Properties related to Replication Manager ............................................................................. 86
logger.properties ................................................................................................................ 88
About Replication Manager log output ........................................................................... 91
serverstorageif.properties .................................................................................................... 91
bcmif.properties ................................................................................................................. 92
agentif.properties ............................................................................................................... 93
appagentif.properties ......................................................................................................... 94
base.properties .................................................................................................................. 95
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