INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BY A MEDIA AGENT IN THE ABSENCE OF COMMUNICATIONS WITH A STORAGE MANAGER

摘要

A media agent is configured to perform substantially autonomously to initiate, continue, and manage information management operations such as a backup job of a certain client's primary data, manage the operations, and generate and store resultant system-level metadata from the operations, etc. The media agent is configured to do this even when out of communication with the storage manager that manages the information management system. When communications are restored, the media agent reports the relevant metadata to the storage manager. The storage manager comprises corresponding enhancements, including specialized logic for identifying the media agent as an intelligent media agent capable of some autonomous functionality, for transmitting management parameters thereto, and for seamlessly integrating the received metadata into the storage manager's associated management infrastructure such as a management database.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
transmitting, by a storage manager that manages an information management system based at least in part on an associated management database, to a secondary storage computing device that is a component of the information management system, one or more management parameters,
wherein the secondary storage computing device comprises executable logic for managing, while out of communication with the storage manager, one or more information management jobs based on the one or more management parameters; and receiving, by the storage manager, from the secondary storage computing device, metadata generated by the secondary storage computing device based on the one or more information management jobs; and integrating the received metadata, by the storage manager, into the associated management database.