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Assign and Unassign Nodes from Policies

CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager lets you assign or unassign nodes from existing D2D Policies.

Follow these steps:

1. From the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager home page, click Policies on the Navigation bar to open the Policies screen.
2. Select a Policy from the Policies list and click the Policy Assignment tab.

   A list of nodes that are assigned to the selected Policy displays one of the following deployment actions and statuses (Format: [action] deployment status):

   • [Assign] Pending
   • [Unassign] Deploying
   • [Resync] Done
   • [Update] Failed
   • [Re-deploy] Deploy D2D successful
   • [Re-deploy] Deploy D2D failed
   • [Re-deploy] Deploy D2D rebooting
3. Click the Assign and Unassign button.

   The Assign/Unassign Policy dialog opens.

4. Specify the following fields from the Assign/Unassign Policy dialog:
   • Group--Lets you select the group name containing the nodes that you want to assign.
   • Node Name Filter--Lets you filter the available nodes based on common criteria.

     Note: The Node Name field lets you filter nodes using wildcard characters.

     For example, Acc* lets you filter all nodes having a node name that begins with Acc. To clear the filter results, click X in the Filter field.

5. Do one of the following actions:
   • Assign nodes to policies--Select the nodes that you want to add and click the single right arrow.

     The nodes move from the Available Nodes list to the Selected Nodes list.

     Note: To select and move all nodes, click the double right arrow.

   • Unassign nodes from policies--Select the nodes that you want to unassign and click the single left arrow.

     The nodes move from the Selected Nodes list to the Available Nodes list.

     Note: To select and move all nodes, click the double left arrow.

   Click OK.

   Note: The following message appears when you unassign policies:

   You are unassigning the policies from the selected node. You can keep the current settings to allow the node to continue the backup process. Do you want to keep the settings?" Click Yes to keep the current CA ARCserve D2D settings, click No to remove the current CA ARCserve D2D settings, or click Cancel to go back to the Assign/Unassign Policy screen.
   

   When you click No, the remote CA ARCserve D2D settings will be lost and the CA ARCserve D2D server will not be protected.

The nodes are applied to the specified policies.