Specify global policy properties

Find out how to use global policy properties to control how BRMS operations occur on your server.

Global policy properties are settings that are used, in conjunction with values that you specify in your backup policies, to enable you to control how BRMS works in your environment. Following are some of the global properties that you can specify:

• Notification - you can specify how and when you want BRMS to communicate with you about backup processing.
• Power down - you can specify the earliest and latest times that you want your server to be restarted, and the subsystems that you want to check for activity before the server restarts.
• Signoff exceptions - you can specify any users or display devices that you want to stay active when BRMS does a backup. For example, you might add the security officer or the system console to this list to ensure that the server can be accessed by that person or device during processing.
• Maintenance - you can customize the maintenance options that are to be run when maintenance is selected to be run from a backup policy.
• Retrieval - you can specify the options you want BRMS to use when you retrieve objects that have had their storage freed by BRMS. For example, you can specify the type of media to retrieve objects from such as whether to use devices in parallel or serial mode and how long to retain retrieved objects on the system.

  The retrieval options are associated with archive operations which are currently not supported by the BRMS client.

• Network - you can manage the systems in your BRMS network and specify options such as whether TCP/IP should be used as your networking protocol for BRMS operations.
• Logging- you can specify which messages that you want to include or exclude from the BRMS log.

To change the global policy properties on your server in iSeries™ Navigator, right-click Backup, Recovery and Media Services and select Global Policy Properties.