HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.1 CLI User Guide (TB584-96026, May 2011)

4 Application Agent operations
Application Agent operations differ depending on the object to be backed up.
This chapter provides an outline of and precautions on extended commands and basic commands
used when operating Application Agent. It also gives precautions common to all objects subject to
backup. The descriptions in this chapter apply to the Application Agent CLI.
For separate precautions on each object subject to backup and for details about the operating
procedure, see Chapter 5 on page 245, Chapter 6 on page 275, Chapter 7 on page 395.
Application Agent commands
Application Agent provides two types of commands: extended and basic. When operating Application
Agent, you need to use extended commands and basic commands appropriately depending on
circumstances and operation methods.
Extended commands
Extended commands are suited to operations for automating backup and restore processes.
Extended commands have the following characteristics:
• Command specifications can be simplified by defining, in advance, the resource information to
be processed.
• In a series of commands, backup information can be inherited between commands.
• Backup information can be transferred easily between a database server and backup server.
With extended commands, you can reduce the operation load because you can define resource
information to be processed and backup information in advance. For this reason, HP recommends
that processing, such as backup and restoration, that often references this information be performed
with extended commands.
For processing that cannot be automated because the user's judgment is required, use basic commands
instead of extended commands. The following are examples of processing that cannot be automated:
• Environment setup
• Inspection of objects to be restored
• Recovery processing
Extended commands execute basic commands internally. For details about the correspondence between
extended commands and basic commands, see “Correspondence between extended commands and
basic commands” on page 222.
Extended commands are installed in the following locations:
Application-Agent-installation-directory\script\bin\
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