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Job Activity Control - Commvault Command Center

Owned by Carl Brault (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 30, 2021 by tdopko@commvault.com (Unlicensed)
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Commvault® software offers a great deal of flexibility for controlling job activity. Data protection, recovery, and administrative jobs can be temporarily disabled and then re-enabled at a specific date and time. Activity control can be set for the entire CommCell® environment, server group, and server levels.


Job activity key points:

  • If activity is disabled for a parent object in the Commvault Command CenterTM, activity is automatically disabled for any child objects.
  • Activity can be disabled until manually enabled or set to automatically re-enable at a specific date and time.
  • If activity is enabled for a parent object, activity can be enabled or disabled for any child objects.

Which Activity can be Controlled?

  • All activity for the entire CommCell® environment can be enabled / disabled.
  • Disabling activity at the CommCell level will disable all activity in the CommCell environment.
  • Enabling (default) allows activity to be controlled at child levels.


Activity control at the various levels of the CommCell® environment

Activity that can be enabled or disabled

CommCell

Server Group

Server

Agent

Subclient

All activity
 

Yes

No

No

No

No

Data Backup

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data Recovery
 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Schedule Activity

Yes

No

No

No

No





Enabling or Disabling CommCell® Activity

Disabling Job Activity

If job activity is disabled at any level, it will automatically disable activity for any child objects. Activity cannot be overridden at any child levels.


Example: A server group representing servers for a specific location is disabled for maintenance. By disabling activity at the group level, all servers within the group are automatically disabled.




To control activity for the CommCell® environment

1 - Expand Manage | CommCell.

2 - Locate the Activity Control section and disable any activity.

3 - Activity can be re-enabled after a delay.


Enabling Job Activity

If job activity is enabled at any level within the Commvault Command CenterTM, activity can be disabled at any child level object within the tree.


Example: A specific server has a maintenance window scheduled. By disabling the activity for that server, no operations will run. All other servers within the group will operate normally.




To control activity for a server

1 - Expand Manage | Servers.

2 - Click the name of the client.



3 - Locate the Activity control section under the Configuration tab and disable activity.


Enabling After Delay

If activity is disabled at any level in the Commvault Command CenterTM, the option 'Enable after a Delay' can be used to automatically re-enable activity after a specific delay or at a specific date and time.




To automatically re-enable activity for a client

1 - Once activity is disabled for an entity, click Enable after a delay.

2 - Select a delay in hours or click Custom to set a specific date and time.



3 - If Custom was selected, click to set a specific date and time.

4 - Pick the date from the calendar.

5 - Click to set the time.



6 - Set the desired time.


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