Welcome to Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager v19.9 - How to Series.
Install, Configure and Integrate Oracle RMAN Agent
on AIX with PowerProtect Data Manager Version 19.9.
Reference Dell Knowledge Article # 192030.
This video presents how to install, configure and integrate
Oracle RMAN Agent on AIX with PowerProtect Data Manager v19.9.
It also presents centralized backup for Oracle RMAN Agent on AIX
in PowerProtect Data Manager version 19.9.
Discuss the feature benefits and how to use it.
And includes a demo to present how to install and configure
the RMAN Agent on AIX.
Oracle centralized backup is a solution newly added
for Oracle RMAN Agent on AIX in PowerProtect version 19.9.
Backups of Oracle databases are set up and managed
from PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.
Policies can be configured to take backups of Oracle Databases
from PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.
Schedules can be specified within the policy
to run backups during specific time.
Retention period of backup copies can be set within policy.
Oracle Centralized backup has lots of benefits like;
centralized management of Oracle backups through policies.
Ease of setting up backup schedules and retention period
from PowerProtect Data Manager User interface.
No RMAN scripting is required.
Once set, there is no need to monitor retention period of backup copies.
Custom alerts can be defined through SLA.
We have some limitations on the current version
of PowerProtect Data Manger that
Oracle centralized restores are not possible through
PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.
Let's have a quick demo to have a detailed view about how to install, configure,
and integrate Oracle RMAN Agent on AIX with PowerProtect Data Manager v19.9.
Log into the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.
Click on the settings button or gear and select "Agent downloads."
Under Oracle box, click the "Download Agent" button
and select "Download for AIX."
This will download the RMAN Agent to the download folder.
Use WINCP or a similar program to copy RMAN Agent tar file
to Oracle AIX server under home/oracle.
Once the RMAN Agent tar file has been copied successfully,
log into the AIX server as Oracle user.
List the content and change the owner and group of the RMAN Agent tar file
to Oracle and install.
Extract tar file using tar-xvf command.
This will extract all the contents under ddrman directory.
Change directory to ddrman and run the install script.
Type "Y" for yes to choose default installation directory.
To install a non default directory that already exists, type "N".
Type "N" for "No" to update setting in Oracle home
since this is a new installation.
RMAN Agents installation is successful.
Log in as [root] and install PowerProtect Agent services
to integrate RMAN Agent with PowerProtect Data Manager.
If the installation is successful, the result will show "Success".
To complete the required Add-on's configuration and registration
with PowerProtect Data Manager,
run a configure add-on script from the RMAN Agent add-on's directory
from RMAN Agent home.
Enter the IP address of PowerProtect Data Manager server.
Enter "Y" for yes and "N" for no to set retention time for retention management.
Provide the number of days for retention period.
Once the installation is successful, go back to PowerProtect user interface.
Click on "Application Agents" under infrastructure menu.
Check Oracle AIX server is registered with PowerProtect Data Manager.
If it's awaiting approval, select the server and click "Approve" button.
Click "Asset Source" and verify the Oracle AIX server is listed as available.
Click "Assets" and verify the Oracle database is listed as available.
We are now ready to configure protection policy
to take backup of all available Oracle databases.
Go to Protection menu and click "Protection Policy".
Click on "Add" button to add protection policy.
Enter name and description of policy and click "Next".
Select "Centralized Protection" for purpose of the policy
and click on "Set Credentials".
Click on the drop-down to add credentials or use existing credentials
and click "Save".
Click on the checkbox to select the Oracle Database
that you would like to add to the backup policy and click "Next".
Click on "Add Text" to configure primary backup.
We will now set up schedule for full and log backup.
We can add various options for the backups
but for simplicity of this demo, we will skip those.
Click "Next".
Click "Finish" to complete configuring backup policy.
This will kick off policy configuration jobs.
Click "View details" to see the status of policy configuration jobs.
Once the policy configuration jobs complete successfully,
the backups will run as per the policy schedule.
Click "Protection Policy" under Protection menu
to check the status of the policy.
The backups are now ready to run as per schedule.
We can also run backups on demand by clicking on "Protect Now" button.
Click on "Radio" button to select all assets
or choose some of the assets and click "Next".
Select "Full" and click "Next".
View summary and click "Protect Now".
This will kick off the job for manually protecting Oracle Database.
Click "View Details" to see the job status.
Once it's complete successfully, the backups will be done.
Go to assets under "Infrastructure" and click on checkbox
for the Oracle Database that we backed up.
Click on "View copies".
This will show us the data domain storage targets and copies.
Click on the blue color domain icon to see the copy of the backup we just ran.
Thank you for watching.