Automating Host Group Management > Merge Duplicate Backup Clients
  
Version 10.0.01
Merge Duplicate Backup Clients
This merge utility can be used for clients that have been collected from the following backup products: Veritas NetBackup, EMC NetWorker, and CommVault Simpana.
Description
Under certain circumstances, backup clients may have duplicate entries in the Hitachi Storage Viewer database. This utility enables you to merge the data of clients that appear more than once in the database.
In most cases, it is not necessary to shut down the data receiver while the client records are being merged. Although not required, it is recommended that you shut down the data receiver before executing this utility so that data will not continue to be collected for the hosts that are being merged.
Merging of NetBackup master servers is not supported.
Usage
execute duplicate_package.mergeDuplicateServers(<'host_grp'>,<host_name_type>);
 
Example:
exec duplicate_package.mergeDuplicateServers('/Corp',1);
 
Where:
host_grp is the explicit host group path and name.
host_name_type indicates whether to use only the host’s base name while finding duplicates, or use the fully qualified name. 0 = fully qualified host name, 1 = host base name.
 
Example of a host base name: QAhost1
Example of a fully qualified host name: QAhost1.yourcompany.com