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Starting the client schedulerRelated concepts“Enabling or disabling scheduled commands” on page 219Where supported, you can use the schedcmddisabled option to disable thescheduling of commands by the server. Commands are scheduled by using theaction=command option on the DEFINE SCHEDULE server command.“Scheduling options” on page 253This topic discusses the options that you can use to regulate central scheduling.Tivoli Storage Manager uses scheduling options only when the Scheduler isrunning.Related tasks“Configuring the Web client” on page 52There are some steps that you must follow to configure the Web client.“Setting the client scheduler process to run as a background task and startautomatically at boot time” on page 214You can configure the Tivoli Storage Manager client scheduler to run as abackground system task which starts automatically when your system is started.This is true for both client acceptor daemon-managed and traditional methods ofrunning the Tivoli Storage Manager client scheduler.Related reference“Managedservices” on page 345The managedservices option specifies whether the Tivoli Storage Manager clientacceptor service manages the scheduler, the Web client, or both.“Sessioninitiation” on page 394Use the sessioninitiation option to control whether the server or client initiatessessions through a firewall. The default is that the client initiates sessions. You canuse this option with the schedule command.Follow these steps to run scheduling services with the GUI.Using the command-line client to handle scheduled eventsYou must be a system administrator to configure Tivoli Storage Manager to use thecommand-line client interface to handle scheduled events. The command-line toolsmust be installed to enable this function.Before starting the client scheduler, you must complete the following steps beforethe client acceptor daemon will work.1. Ensure that the managedservices option includes schedule in the client systemsoptions (dsm.sys) file.2. Set the passwordaccess option to generate in the client systems options(dsm.sys) file.If you include files for encryption processing, ensure that you select the SaveEncryption Key Password Locally option in the Authorization Preferences windowso that the client scheduler can perform unattended scheduled services withoutprompting the user for the encryption key. If the encryption key has not beenpreviously saved, you must perform an attended backup of at least one file so thatthe encryption prompt will be given and the key can be saved.To start the client scheduler on your client node and connect to the serverschedule, change to the Tivoli Storage Manager installation directory and enter thefollowing command:Chapter 2. Configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager client 55