Collecting from NetBackup Clusters
Regardless of your NetBackup data collection architecture—either Centralized or Distributed collection—if your Master Servers belong to a cluster, the Data Collector will communicate with the cluster to gather data from the active Master Server.
Best Practices for Collecting from NetBackup Clusters
• Install the Data Collector on both Master Servers in the cluster, but only run the collector on one of them. This enables one server to be the active node while the other server is the failover node.
• Enable the Data Collector only on the active node of the cluster.
• If a Master Server belongs to a cluster, when you add the Data Collector server via the StorageConsole Portal, enter the
NetBackup Cluster Name for the Internal Name (see
Adding Symantec NetBackup Servers) along with the cluster’s Virtual IP address.
