Decoupled package, "add client" from a specific Commcell only?

Hi @RubeckDK 

I would say your tinfoil hat fits just fine , great question.

I’m reviewing the options available for Planning a custom package and wondering if with a decoupled installation you can specify the Commserve or network routes to reach the Commserve.

If you can specify the Commserve name in the answer file or network routes to reach the Commserve, then this would in effect prevent a different Commserve from obtaining details from or registering the client. The client would fail the connection as a mis-matched Commserve name or network connectivity would fail as the network route would be invalid.

Usually authentication required is from the Commserve - to enable only authorised clients from connecting to the Commcell - this turns that principle on it’s head by trying to restrict the client to only one pre-determined Commserve.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @Stuart Painter 

Thanks a lot for your input… Very much appreciated.

When having some spare time I’ll see what I can do with the answer file…  I just remembering that there are some differences in the options that can be selected when creating these packages for various OS types when creating them interactively…(We have AIX, Linux on PPC and x64, Wintendo etc) 

We were just discussing internally that having decoupled packages (a basic FS IDA) installed on every server deployed would “might” be a good idea, in case the client owner decides to install something which would require a special IDA to be running…. So before going down this route I need to make sure that “my rouge Commcell” can’t simply snatch data from these clients :-)

Anyway… Have a great weekend when you get this far :-)

/Rubeck 

Hi @Stuart Painter 

Thank you for your input….  Don’t know where my previous reply have gone off to?
Replied the same day…. Weird.

Anyway… specifying a specific CS name in the install.xml doesn’t seem to prevent me from adding it to a different CS :-(  

For a Windows_x64 package I specified the following in the install.xml.

<CommServeInfo>
        <CommserveHostInfo hostName="specific_cs.whocares.inc" clientName="specific_cs" />
    </CommServeInfo>

But again.. it was some what expected due to what’s mentioned here:

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/57500_customizing_answer_file_of_windows_custom_package.html

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:-( 

If you have more ideas, please let me know :-) 

Thank you..

/Rubeck

Hi @RubeckDK 

Ok, thanks for working through options, looks like you’re prevented from adding the items you need to specify.

Let me follow up internally and see what options we have to specify CS on a decoupled installation.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @RubeckDK 

I’m following up internally with Development to see if:

1. We have options available to achieve this now
2. If not, if we can look at an enhancement to build this in to a future release.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @Stuart Painter 

Any word back from Development yet? :-)

/Rubeck

Hi @RubeckDK 

Yes, Development have responded, sorry for the delay.

The behaviour you are seeking, so lock a de-coupled client installation to a particular Commserve or Commcell isn’t currently supported or available.

Development have however suggested that we can raise a Customer Modification Request (CMR), to request this feature in a future release.

I will go ahead and raise this CMR and provide the details here, if you would private message me your details, I can attribute this CMR to a Commcell ID and you can track progress via Commvault Cloud.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi @Stuart Painter 

Thank you.. Appreciate it :-) 
I’ll send you a private message, ASAP.

/Rubeck 

Excellent, @Stuart Painter . Thanks a million…  :-)

Have a great day.. 

/Rubeck

Hi Together,

I’m also looking excactly for this feature. @Stuart Painter can you give me a hint how to check updates on CMR 341556 … is there any way to see and check the process.

Thanks 

@Sebbo , nothing yet, though I have added your CommCell to the CMR itself.

You can also view the number of requests that were submitted for a change in the software during the specified time period in the Modification Requests tile:

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/essential/133935_creating_customer_modification_request_from_commcell_dashboard.html

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