Commvault client computers and group

Hi @paragon 

Thanks for the question and welcome to the Community!

The “Client Computers” group contains a list of all clients in the Commcell, however there are filters that could be applied, for example to exclude virtual machines from the view - please take a look at CommCell Console - User Preferences - Client Computer Filter.

You can of course additionally create Client Computer Groups with either manual association or association based on a set of criteria (Smart Client Groups) where these groups will contain clients that match the specified criteria. Client groups allow you to apply configuration settings to similar clients, based on the association criteria used.

A client may be a member of more than one group.

For example, if your client naming convention prefixes clients with their geographic location, US, EMEA, APAC, etc. you could create a client group “EMEA Clients” for each region using rules like “Client name starts with”=”EMEA”, etc.

So, a Media Agent based in EMEA would be found in:

Client Computers

Media Agents

EMEA Clients.

Please take a look at Rules Available for Smart Client Computer Groups for a list of the rules and criteria available.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @paragon 

I can understand what you mean by getting duplicate client error - create a new client when one with the same name already exists, which you can now overcome with a full list.

But I’m not sure what you mean by this part:

Is there a proper and easy way to migrate to duplicate clients?
For example file System Client and Virtual Server one?

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @paragon 

That makes sense now and yes, it’s a common problem.

Please take a look at these steps: VNU0001: Virtual machine client names are created with '_1' appended to the original client name

That will allow you to merge the client_name_1 duplicate with the original client_name.

Thanks,

Stuart