HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Branch Intelligent Management System Administrator Guide

1. Click Service > BIMS > Configuration Management > Backup Configuration.
All backup tasks are displayed in the Backup Task List.
2. View the following information in the Backup Task List:
• Task Name—The name of the deployment task. Click the name link to view the task details.
• Description—A brief introduction of the task.
• Creation Time—The date and time when the deployment task is created.
• Task Type—Whether the backup task type is:
Auto Backup Plan—These tasks back up the configuration of CPEs you specified.◦
◦ Network-Wide Backup Plan—These tasks back up all CPEs that are managed by
BIMS.
• Backup History—Contains a Backup History icon . You can view the historical backup
records of a backup task by clicking the associated Backup History icon.
• Status—The scheduled execution function of a backup task is enabled or disabled. This
function aims at the backup tasks that are executed periodically or will be executed at
the scheduled time. For more information, see “Enabling or disabling a backup task.”
• Modify—A Modify icon for modifying the corresponding deployment task. For more
information, see “Modifying a backup task.”
3. In the Query Condition pane, you can set query criteria by task name and task type to search
for the backup tasks you want to view. To do this, specify the query conditions, and then click
Query.
The backup tasks matching your requirements are displayed in the Backup Task List.
Creating a backup task
To create a backup task:
1. Click Service > BIMS > Configuration Management > Backup Configuration.
All backup tasks are displayed in the Backup Task List.
2. Click Add.
3. On the Task Attributes page, specify the following basic information for the task to be created:
• Task Name—Enter a name for the backup task.
• Mode—Select One-off to create a task that is executed only once. Select Periodical to
create a task that is executed periodically.
A Periodical task can be executed monthly, weekly, or daily.
• Execution Time—Set the task execution time. The options include:
Immediately—Execute the backup task immediately.◦
◦ Scheduled—Schedule a date and time to execute the backup task.
◦ Quickly—This option aims at the NAT CPE. For a NAT CPE, BIMS can execute a
backup task to it only when the NAT CPE polls BIMS. HP recommends that you select
this option when creating a backup task for the NAT CPEs.
• Back up Network-Wide CPEs—Select this check box to back up all the CPEs managed
by BIMS. If enabling this function, you needn’t configure the CPE List below.
• Description—Enter a brief description of the backup task.
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