Archiware P5 Configuration

Configuring Archiware P5

Starting the Browser

P5 is a web-server application running in the background. The user interface runs in a web browser such as Firefox
or chrome.

To reach the interface sign in via your browser using the following URL:

http://localhost:8000/login

Please use root or administrator for your first session.

Once you have signed in P5, the home screen is displayed.

License Activation

After signing in, you have to enter your licenses in order to be able to access all your licensed features. To create a
license, please follow these steps:

1. Click home in the menu bar at the top.

2. Navigate to Getting Started > License the software in the main window.

3. Start entering a new license by clicking 'new' at the bottom left.

4. In the license window, enter the data into the corresponding fields according to your Activation Key document.
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5. Click Apply to confirm the input. A new license will be created.

First Steps to Set Up an Archive Plan

Select the Archive icon, the Getting Started item in the left side menu takes you to the Archive Assistant.

Simply follow the assistant steps to define where and how to archive the data.
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The Archive Assistant will define an Archive Plan that holds the configuration. Furthermore, a virtual or physical
media changer or single drive is configured automatically and a media pool, either Disk-Archive or Tape-Archive, is
created and Volumes can be labeled in preparation to write to them.

The Assistant also allows the user to define a client in order to archive data from that client instead of the local
machine. This configuration requires a P5 installation on that client computer
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The data browser will display the new jukebox if the configuration of the library completed successfully. You may
then close the wizard window.

Following the jukebox setup, the wizard offers the possibility to label tapes:
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Loading the tapes from Mail box

Select the source slot as mail box and the required target slot and click load.

Tape will be loaded to the corresponding slot.

Assigning a tape (Volume) to a Tape pool

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Select the volume and assign it to the required Tape pool. Tape-Archive is the default tape pool.

We can create custom pools from pools section in the left pane.

Creating an Archive Plan

1. Log into P5 using a web browser as an admin user. See section 4.1, Starting the Browser.

2. Select the Archive module from the top menu and select Archive Plan.

3. Choose New from the bottom bar and fill in the required fields.

To confirm your input, click Apply . In case all the entered data is correct, the plan will be updated.

Creating a Client

It should be noted that Archiware P5 package should also be installed in the machine from where data is to
archived.

Select Client from the sidebar. Click New in the client managers bottom bar to create a Client.

Fill in the required fields about the machine from where data is to be archived.

Client Name should be unique. White space is not allowed in the Client Name.
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Mounting Network drive in the server when highres is a UNC path

When accessing drives in PresSTORE on Windows, Network drives via SMB, Samba or CIFS are usually not visible in
PresSTORE.

The reason is that PresSTORE runs as a service, but Network drives are mounted in the process context of user
processes and are thus not visible to the service.

In order to make a network drive accessible in PresSTORE , it must be mounted in the context of the local system
account. That can be achieved with the Sysinternals tool psexec. Here is how:

Download sysinternals tools from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553

Create an elevated shell by running cmd.exe as administrator
Within that shell, call

psexec -i -s net use s: \\server\share /persistent:yes

This will mount the drive in the true root environment and makes it available to PresSTORE.

We can assign any drive letter. The mounting path should be the path to the highres shared folder.
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eMAM Super Admin Configuration

Host Server IP is the IP address of the machine where Archiware P5 is installed.

Username and Password – user id and password used to log in to the Archiware P5 interface.

Default port number is 9001.

Client Name is the name of the Client created in the P5 interface.

Archive Plan is the ID of the Archive Plan created in the P5 interface.

If the Highres folder is a local folder then Network drive should be the local highres path.

Else, Network drive is the drive letter of the disconnected network drive which is mounted on the machine where
eMAM Archive Manager is installed.
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