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Chapter 5, Monitoring Storage Devices

Handling Pending Requests and Pending Actions

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Handling Pending Requests and Pending Actions

In normal operating situations, NetBackup is able to resolve most requests automatically
and quickly. For example if the requested volume is labeled and in a robotic library, Media
Manager resolves the request as soon as the volume and a drive are available; and then
removes the request and also the Pending Requests pane. In these normal cases, the
pending request may not even be apparent to the operator.

The following special situations can occur:

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NetBackup needs a volume to complete a tape mount. NetBackup then displays a
pending request in the Pending Requests pane.

See “Pending Requests” on page 235.

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NetBackup needs a volume to complete a tape mount and encounters problems.
NetBackup then displays a pending action in the Pending Requests pane.

See “Pending Actions” on page 236.

Pending Requests

NetBackup sometimes needs operator assistance to complete a tape mount request for
standalone drives or for drives in a robot that are not working (indicated by AVR in the
Control column of the drive status pane).

In these cases, NetBackup is unable to automatically complete the request and is not
certain what is causing the issue, since there may be multiple valid explanations for the
problem.

The request remains in the Pending Requests pane until resolved. In any of the following
cases, proceed as explained in “Resolving Pending Requests” on page 236.

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The required drive is up and is in operator control mode (

OPR

mode) and standalone

drive extensions were disabled by using a
DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS entry in the

bp.conf

file on UNIX

servers or in the registry on Windows servers.

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The volume in a drive is unlabeled (and the volume being mounted is not known to
be a Backup Exec volume that you are managing).

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NetBackup issues a write request for an unlabeled volume in a standalone drive and
the standalone drive extensions were disabled.

The following figure shows a typical pending request.

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Summary of Contents for NetBackupTM 5.0

Page 1: ...N102408 VERITAS NetBackup 5 0 Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 2: ...y and University of California Irvine Copyright c 1993 2002 all rights reserved IBM XML for C XML4C 3 5 1 Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 Compaq Computer Corporation Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 Hewlett Packard Company Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 IBM Corporation Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 Hummingbird Communications Ltd Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 Silicon Graphics Inc Copyright c 1999 2000 2001 Sun Microsys...

Page 3: ...summarizes the revisions made to this document for NetBackup release 5 0 See the release notes for more detailed information Release Date Description NetBackup 5 0 December 2003 Original version for this release This guide is intended for use with NetBackup Server and NetBackup Enterprise Server ...

Page 4: ...iv NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 5: ...es xxx Glossary xxx Accessibility Features xxxi Conventions xxxi Chapter 1 Introduction to Media Manager 1 Media Manager Terminology 1 Media Manager Features 5 Media Manager Hosts 7 Master Servers 8 Media Servers 8 SAN Media Servers 8 Volume Database Host 9 Global Device Database Host 9 Media Manager Storage Devices 10 Media Manager Volumes 10 Mounting and Using Volumes 11 ...

Page 6: ...Menus and Commands 19 Toolbars 21 Tree Pane 22 Global Topology Pane 23 Topology Icons 23 Topology Connections 24 Selecting Topology Objects 24 Devices Pane 25 Managing the Devices Pane 25 Using the Drives Tab 25 Using the Robots Tab 29 Using the Hosts Tab 30 Status Bar 31 Shortcut Menus and Commands 31 Customizing the Window 32 Viewing and Rearranging Columns 32 Changing the View of the Topology P...

Page 7: ...o Configure Shared Drives 44 Starting the Device Configuration Wizard 45 Rerunning the Device Configuration Wizard 45 Managing Unsupported Devices 45 Managing Partially Configured Devices 45 Adding Robots 46 Dialog Entries for Adding and Changing Robots 47 Device Host 47 Robot Type 48 Robot Number 49 Volume Database Host 49 Robot Control Section of the Dialog 50 Robot is controlled locally by this...

Page 8: ...e Host Section of the Dialog 60 Device Host 60 Drive Information Section of the Dialog 60 Drive Name 60 Drive Type 60 Device Name 61 No Rewind Device 61 Character Device 62 Volume Header Device 62 Cleaning Frequency 62 Drive Is In A Robotic Library 63 Robotic Drive Information Section of the Dialog 63 Robotic Library 63 Robot Drive Number 64 ACS 64 TLH 65 TLM 65 Managing Your Device Configuration ...

Page 9: ...Test Step that Requires Operator Intervention 74 Using SANPoint Control to Investigate SAN Problems 75 Printing Your Device Configuration 76 Robot and Drive Configuration Examples 77 Example 1 Configuring a Robot on a Server 77 Example 2 Configuring Standalone Drives on a Server 79 Example 3 Configuring a Robot Distributed Among Multiple Servers 81 Configuration on the Windows Server eel 82 Config...

Page 10: ...Volume Pool 107 Adding a Scratch Volume Pool 108 Changing the Attributes of a Volume Pool 109 Changing a Volume Pool To be a Scratch Volume Pool 110 Changing the Volume Pool Assignment for a Volume 110 Deleting a Volume Pool 111 Methods Available for Injecting and Ejecting Volumes 112 Methods for Injecting Volumes into a Robot 112 When Adding New Volumes 112 When Moving Volumes 112 When Performing...

Page 11: ... ID Naming Style 122 Media ID or First Media ID 123 Media Description 123 First Slot Number 123 Maximum Mounts or Maximum Cleanings 124 Volume Group 124 Volume Pool 125 Inject Volume Into Robot via the Media Access Port 126 Using the Volume Configuration Wizard 126 Volume Configuration Wizard Limitations 126 What To Expect In the Volume Configuration Wizard 127 Before You Start the Volume Configur...

Page 12: ...Type 1 136 Eject Volumes Dialog Type 2 137 Labeling Media 137 Erasing Media 139 SCSI Quick Erase 139 SCSI Long Erase 139 Deassigning Volumes 140 Determining Which Application is Using a Volume 141 Deassigning NetBackup Volumes 141 Deassigning NetBackup Regular Backup Volumes 141 Deassigning NetBackup Catalog Backup Volumes 142 Deassigning Storage Migrator Volumes 142 Changing the Attributes for a ...

Page 13: ...Robots 157 RSM Robots 157 TLH Robots 157 TLM Robots 158 Comparing Robot Contents with the Volume Configuration 158 Compare Volume Configuration Reports 159 Updating the Volume Configuration for a Robot 160 When to Use Update Volume Configuration 161 When Not to Use Update Volume Configuration 162 Updating the Volume Configuration for Non Barcoded Media 163 Procedure To Update the Volume Configurat...

Page 14: ...Options 187 How the Mapping Defaults Shown on the Tab are Determined 187 Using the Tab to Change Media Type Mappings 187 Adding Mapping Entries to vm conf 189 Default and Allowable Media Types for API Robots 189 Examples of Updating a Volume Configuration 194 Example 1 Removing a Volume from a Robot 194 Example 2 Adding Existing Standalone Volumes to a Robot 196 Example 3 Moving Existing Volumes W...

Page 15: ... 223 Status Bar 225 Shortcut Menus and Commands 225 Customizing the Window 226 Allowable Media Manager Characters 227 Controlling the NetBackup Device Manager Service 228 Monitoring Devices on Other Servers 228 Changing the Operating Mode of a Drive 230 Changing Mode Example 230 Resetting a Drive 231 Drive Cleaning Functions 232 Adding or Changing a Drive Comment 234 Handling Pending Requests and ...

Page 16: ...est Practices 248 NetBackup and Media Manager Databases 248 Media Manager Volume Database 248 Media Catalog 249 NetBackup Catalogs 249 Device Databases 249 Robot Overview 250 Media Manager Robot Types 250 Media Manager Media Types 251 Alternate Media Types 252 Robot Attributes 253 Table Driven Robotics 265 Robotic Test Utilities 265 Robotic Processes 265 Process Example 266 Processes by Robot Type...

Page 17: ... Based Cleaning 278 Operator Initiated Cleaning 279 Using a Cleaning Tape 279 Volume Pools and Volume Groups 280 Volume Pools 280 Volume Groups 280 Rules for Assigning Volume Groups 280 Volume Pool and Volume Group Example 281 Scratch Volume Pools 282 Scratch Pool Example 283 Scratch Pool Usage 283 Moving Volumes 284 Move Operations 284 Physical and Logical Moves 285 Barcodes 285 Barcode Advantage...

Page 18: ...rdware Configuration 299 Replacing Devices in a SSO Configuration 299 Decommissioning a Media Server 300 Labeling Media 302 Pre labeling of Media 302 Mounting and Unmounting of Media 303 Suspending Media Or Downing Devices 303 How Media Manager Selects a Drive for a Robotic Mount Request 303 Controlling Hardware Compression 304 How NetBackup Selects Media in Robots 304 Spanning Media 306 How NetBa...

Page 19: ...15 Supported Commands and Daemons 315 Allowing Enhanced Authorization 316 Enabling Robot Authorization 316 Administrators Quick Reference 316 Media Manager Commands 317 Media Manager Log Files 319 The Media Manager Configuration File vm conf 320 ACS Media Mapping 320 Adjacent LSM Specification for ACS Robots 320 API Robot Barcode Rule Enable 321 Authorization Required 322 Automatically Empty Robot...

Page 20: ...D Generation 330 Media ID Prefix 331 Not Allowing a Host To Manage Databases 331 Preferred Group 331 Prevent Media Removal for TL8 Robots 332 Random Port Numbers 332 Cluster Name Media Manager Name Required Network Interface 333 Return Media to the Scratch Pool 333 RSM Media Mapping 334 Scratch Pool Configuration 334 Server Entry 334 SSO DA Re register Interval 335 SSO DA Retry Time 335 SSO Host N...

Page 21: ...g Volumes Using the STK Utility 348 Removing Volumes Using Media Manager 348 Robot Inventory Operations 348 Advanced ACS Robot Topics 350 ACS Process acsd 350 ACS Robotic Test Utility acstest 350 Robotic Inventory Filtering 351 Inventory Filtering Example 351 Appendix C Microsoft Removable Storage Manager RSM 353 Media Manager and Microsoft RSM 353 Considerations When Using Microsoft RSM 353 The M...

Page 22: ...367 Configuring Drives for TLH Robots 367 Cleaning Drives 368 Adding Volumes 369 Removing Volumes 369 Robot Inventory Operations 370 Robotic Inventory Filtering 371 Appendix E ADIC Distributed AML Server DAS Scalar Distributed Library Controller SDLC 373 Sample TLM Configuration 373 Media Requests Involving a TLM Robot 374 Configuring Robotic Control 375 Allocating TLM Drives to Media Manager 375 ...

Page 23: ...ts xxiii Configuring the ADIC SDLC Server 379 Using the Device Configuration Wizard 380 Providing Common Access to Volumes 381 Adding Volumes 381 Removing Volumes 382 Robot Inventory Operations 383 Index 385 ...

Page 24: ...xxiv NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 25: ...ia Manager Configuring Storage Devices on page 17 explains how to attach storage devices and configure Media Manager to use them Managing Media on page 89 contains topics on configuring Media Manager to use the media volumes and volume pools that Media Manager requires to store backups Managing Media in Robots on page 151 explains how to configure Media Manager to use and manage the media in robot...

Page 26: ...to both NetBackup server types unless specifically noted Portions of this guide apply only to specific robot types for example API RSM or optical robots server platforms UNIX or Windows or NetBackup server type for example NetBackup Enterprise Server These topics are identified with the use of italics as in the following example This step is only applicable for NetBackup Enterprise Server This gui...

Page 27: ...upport dial the appropriate phone number listed on the Technical Support Guide included in the product box and have your product license information ready for quick navigation to the proper support group To locate the telephone support directory on the VERITAS web site 1 Open http support veritas com in your web browser 2 Click the Phone Support icon A page that contains VERITAS support numbers fr...

Page 28: ...de_GDM pdf Explains how to install configure and use Global Data Manager GDM for NetBackup products on UNIX and Windows based operating systems VERITAS NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX NetBackup_Install_UNIX pdf Explains how to install NetBackup software on UNIX based platforms VERITAS NetBackup Installation Guide for Windows NetBackup_Install_Windows pdf Explains how to install NetBackup sof...

Page 29: ...r UNIX Volume I NetBackup_AdminGuideI_UNIXServer pdf Explains how to configure and manage NetBackup on a UNIX server including managing storage units backup policies catalogs and host properties VERITAS NetBackup System Administrator s Guide for UNIX Volume II NetBackup_AdminGuideII_UNIXServer pdf Explains additional NetBackup features such as access control and enhanced authorization and authenti...

Page 30: ...curity Services CD ROM Explains how to configure and manage core security mechanisms including authentication protected communications and authorization Related Resources Glossary If you encounter unfamiliar terminology consult the NetBackup online glossary The glossary contains terms and definitions for NetBackup and all additional NetBackup options and agents The NetBackup online glossary is inc...

Page 31: ...s used in the NetBackup documentation to increase readability while maintaining technical accuracy Microsoft Windows Windows Terms used to describe a specific product or operating system developed by Microsoft Inc Some examples you may encounter in NetBackup documentation are Windows servers Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Windows clients Windows platforms or Windows GUI When Windows or Windows s...

Page 32: ...ollowing conventions are frequently used in the synopsis of command usage Conventions Convention Description GUI Font Used to depict graphical user interface GUI objects such as fields listboxes menu commands and so on For example Enter your password in the Password field Italics Used for placeholder text book titles new terms or emphasis Replace placeholder text with your specific text For exampl...

Page 33: ...ting multiple menu levels a greater than sign is used to indicate a continued action The following example shows how the is used to condense a series of menu selections into one step Select Start Programs VERITAS NetBackup NetBackup Administration Console The corresponding actions could be described in more steps as follows 1 Click Start in the task bar 2 Move your cursor to Programs 3 Move your c...

Page 34: ...Conventions xxxiv NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 35: ...pics Media Manager Terminology Media Manager Features Media Manager Hosts Media Manager Storage Devices Media Manager Volumes Media Manager Administration Utilities Device and Media Configuration Overview Security Issues When you are familiar with the features and the administration of NetBackup and Media Manager described in this guide you should review the list of recommended practices See NetBa...

Page 36: ...kup Enterprise Server for UNIX ACS LMF TLH and TLM avrd The Media Manager automatic volume recognition daemon on UNIX and process on Windows servers barcode A label attached to the media that associates the media to its slot location in a robot The alphanumeric barcode is also usually included on the magnetic label that is written on the media barcode rule A rule that specifies criteria for assign...

Page 37: ... back up its own data or other clients on the network as well to devices media type A Media Manager classification of tape or optical media with differing physical characteristics mount request A request for a volume that is displayed in the Pending Requests pane This means to make a volume available for reading or writing by placing it in an appropriate drive and then assigning the associated req...

Page 38: ...s according to one of the following the physical characteristics of the robot the media type commonly used by that class of robots or the communication methods used by the underlying robotics robotic control path The control path to a robot through a SCSI connection robotic library or robot A peripheral device that contains a mechanism for the automated mounting and dismounting of media in tape or...

Page 39: ...e if it is required by NetBackup Capability to perform automated drive cleaning based on the TapeAlert feature or a frequency based cleaning schedule Cleaning tapes that are configured incorrectly are also recognized system administrator A person with typical UNIX or Windows administrator privileges and responsibilities unlabeled volume A volume that does not have recorded media IDs user A person ...

Page 40: ...entication authorization security Controlling user access to vmd the Media Manager volume daemon Controlling user access to Media Manager robotic daemons and services Robot Inventory and Update Media Manager can inventory a robot provide reports and update the volume database to match the results of the inventory This simplifies administration by permitting you to quickly determine the contents of...

Page 41: ...te storage you can move the media to specific standalone groups Graphical User Interfaces for Media and Device Management The following interfaces or tree nodes are available from the NetBackup Administration Console Device Monitor shows the current status of all drives and allows you to easily change the state of a drive For example it is possible to set a drive to DOWN to prevent its use by Medi...

Page 42: ...a servers in your configuration Typically a master server controls multiple media servers You should manage your media servers from the master server point of view Media Servers A host with Media Manager software installed and devices attached is termed a media server The use of Media servers can increase system performance by distributing network loads Media servers can also be referred to as dev...

Page 43: ...mmand can be used to merge volume pool and media databases See the NetBackup commands guide for details Also shared drive SSO configurations require that one volume database host is used for all servers where a shared drive is configured There should be only one volume database host per global device database host see Global Device Database Host on page 9 and both of these key databases should be ...

Page 44: ...using either of the following methods with the NetBackup Administration Console The Device Configuration Wizard this is the recommended method This wizard is available from the right pane of the NetBackup Administration Console if you have selected Media and Device Management in the tree pane Using Devices use the new robot and new drive menu items You may also use the tpconfig command from the Wi...

Page 45: ...he volume is not in a robot or a standalone drive Media Manager displays a pending request in the Device Monitor The operator must then find the volume and do one of the following Check the Device Monitor to find a suitable drive and mount the requested volume in that drive Move the volume into the robot and update the volume configuration to reflect the correct location for the media and resubmit...

Page 46: ...og on to a Windows workstation as a member of the Administrators group 2 From Start Programs select VERITAS NetBackup NetBackup Administration Console The NetBackup Administration Console appears on your workstation The NetBackup Administration Console is the starting point for administering NetBackup The left pane of the console window has a node for each major area of NetBackup administration in...

Page 47: ... other NetBackup Administration Console nodes other NetBackup administration utilities and menu commands Click Device Monitor The device monitor has commands for monitoring the operation of storage devices Monitoring Storage Devices on page 209 explains how to use the Device Monitor Click Media This node has commands for managing media Managing Media on page 89 and Managing Media in Robots on page...

Page 48: ...ice Configuration Wizard select Configure Storage Devices in the right pane of the NetBackup Administration Console to configure your robots and non shared drives For more information see Using the Device Configuration Wizard on page 41 To manually configure devices not supported by this wizard you must use the menus of the Devices node See Configuring Storage Devices on page 17 3 This step applie...

Page 49: ...n page 151 for advanced robot inventory operations Security Issues See the topic Media Manager Security on page 326 for important information about security Media Manager security topics include the following The relationship with NetBackup authentication authorization security Controlling user access to vmd the Volume Manager service Controlling user access to Media Manager robotic functions ...

Page 50: ...Security Issues 16 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 51: ...sented in this chapter Starting Device Management Using the Device Management Window Performing Initial Device Configuration The following topic applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Administering Devices on Other Servers The following topic applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server The Global Device Database Host Using the Device Configuration Wizard Adding Robots The following topic appl...

Page 52: ...device management window similar to the following appears In addition to the tree pane on the left the following two panes are displayed on the right when you start device management A pane showing global topology A pane showing devices Using the Device Management Window The following topics provide an overview of the window s contents Menus and Commands Toolbars Tree Pane Global Topology Pane Dev...

Page 53: ...at is running NetBackup See Administering Devices on Other Servers on page 36 for details New Console Starts another instance of NetBackup Administration Console New Window from Here Starts another instance of the NetBackup Administration Console node that was active Login as New User Log into NetBackup as a different user without exiting NetBackup This is useful if a NetBackup Administrator wants...

Page 54: ...g robots or drives to a configuration You can also add shared drives to a configuration Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Global Device Database Displays a sub menu that allows you to synchronize the entries in the global device database with the device configuration database Synchronizing databases is normally not necessary but can be done if you are experiencing problems and have made ...

Page 55: ...ive Stop Restart Device Manager Service Stops and restarts the NetBackup Device Manager service View SANPoint Control Launches VERITAS SANPoint ControlTM This web based application helps you locate the cause of problems on your SAN or direct fibre channel attached storage See Using SANPoint Control to Investigate SAN Problems on page 75 Help Help Topics Provides online help information for the Net...

Page 56: ...on the toolbar Tree Pane The tree pane for Devices contains nodes for Hosts Robots and Standalone Drives You can select items in the tree pane or the Topology pane in conjunction with the tabs of the Devices pane to filter the lists that are shown in the Devices pane The following figure shows just the tree pane and contains an expanded view of the Devices node Note Selecting an item in the Tree p...

Page 57: ...gy pane can be customized See Customizing the Window on page 32 These commands are also available using the right mouse button in the topology pane The topology view shows how devices are configured to the server being administrated by showing images of servers and devices The topology information is taken from the Media Manager global device database and is displayed in this pane Topology Icons T...

Page 58: ...ons Selecting Topology Objects Selecting objects in the topology pane is also one of the methods to filter the contents of the lists shown in the Devices pane Multiple objects of the same type can be selected by pressing the Ctrl key and selecting another object If the Ctrl key is used and an object of a different type is selected the selection is allowed and the other objects will not be selected...

Page 59: ...de columns Click View Columns Layout Using the Drives Tab The drives list allows you to view detailed information about drives configured with NetBackup To update the drives list with more detailed information a drive must be selected in the topology pane You can select a drive in the topology explicitly or implicitly by selecting a robotic library The drives list will then be updated with the obj...

Page 60: ...ber Contains the number of the robot If the robot type is NONE this column is blank Robot Drive Number Specifies the number of the drive in the robot For ACS TLH and TLM robot types the robot drive number is not displayed Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Vendor Drive Identifier For TLM robots this column contains the DAS SDLC drive name For TLH robots this column contains the IBM device...

Page 61: ...ns the drive is not a shared drive Applies only to shared drives SSO on NetBackup Enterprise Server Drive Status Contains the current status of the drive Status can be UP or DOWN Port This column contains the SCSI port number of the drive Applies only to NetBackup Windows servers Bus This column contains the SCSI bus number of the drive Applies only to NetBackup Windows servers Target This column ...

Page 62: ...ined for the drive and the value for Mount Time is greater than the frequency or the TapeAlert CLEAN_NOW flag is set TapeAlert Enabled Contains Yes if TapeAlert is enabled Volume Header Device This column specifies the volume header device path for the drive Applies only to optical disk drives on some NetBackupUNIX servers Drive Comments Contains any user comments added for the drive Inquiry Infor...

Page 63: ...ctions Robots List Column Description Note Robot Name Contains the type and number of the robot for example TLD 3 If the robot is partially configured PCR is shown in this column For example PCR 3 See Managing Partially Configured Devices on page 45 for details If the icon shown for a robot contains a red arrow the current server is not the volume database host for the robot In this case it is rec...

Page 64: ... exists For example changer0 Robot Control Host Contains the name of the host that is providing the robotic control Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Port This column contains the SCSI port number of the robot Applies only to NetBackup Windows servers Bus This column contains the SCSI bus number of the robot Applies only to NetBackup Windows servers Target This column contains the SCSI t...

Page 65: ... or which tab is selected in the devices pane Shortcut commands are also available on the menus or toolbars To display a shortcut menu Click the right mouse button while the pointer is over a pane or a selection of a pane Help for the topology pane is available using the right mouse button in the topology pane select Topology Info Hosts List Column Description Host Name Contains the name of the de...

Page 66: ...ging the layout and appearance of the panes See the NetBackup administrator s guide for UNIX or the NetBackup administrator s guide for Windows for more details Viewing and Rearranging Columns To show or hide columns or rearrange the order of columns Click View Columns Layout Changing the View of the Topology Pane These commands are also available using the right mouse button in the topology pane ...

Page 67: ...agram to the size of the current pane Click View Zoom Fit to Window To select objects and focus on a portion of the topology diagram 1 Click View Zoom Overview Window A copy of the topology diagram appears in a secondary window 2 Use the mouse to select desired objects or portions of objects in the configuration The selected objects will be the focus of the main topology pane allowing you to focus...

Page 68: ... a Windows media server The device applications on the Windows server that you use in these steps may be different depending on your operating system 1 Use the appropriate Windows application to obtain information on any currently attached SCSI devices 2 If you are attaching a new robotic library or drive to a Media Manager media server follow the manufacturer s instructions for attaching the devi...

Page 69: ...nfiguration guide for more information on 32 bit tape drivers 6 Add the storage devices to your Media Manager configuration If this is the first time you have configured Media Manager devices note the following a This step applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server If you are adding the device to a remote host also see Administering Devices on Other Servers on page 36 b Depending on the type of d...

Page 70: ...atabase host Select the device or host that you want to administer in the tree pane of the NetBackup Administration Console You can also change from the current server to a different master or media server If you change from a NetBackup Enterprise Server to a NetBackup Server the functionality available on the new server is limited to the functionality supported by NetBackup Server If you change f...

Page 71: ...ange Server to manage devices on other servers you can use File Login as New User See Menus and Commands on page 19 Media Manager Security For Media Manager to access media and device management functionality on another host you may need to add a SERVER entry to the vm conf file on the remote host SERVER entries are used for Media Manager security If there are no SERVER entries and authentication ...

Page 72: ...ons To enable authentication authorization in NetBackup but not in Media Manager You can do either of the following Add SERVER entries in vm conf Have no SERVER and no AUTHORIZATION_REQUIRED entries in vm conf See Media Manager Security on page 311 for more information on the following topics The relationship with NetBackup authentication authorization security Controlling user access to vmd the M...

Page 73: ...ny servers a single host must serve as the repository for global device configuration information See Media and Device Management Domain Management on page 244 and Frequently Asked Questions About Device Discovery on page 269 Note When using the Device Configuration wizard a global device database host conflict may be detected during device scanning This indicates that the hosts you selected to sc...

Page 74: ...evice database host To add a device host to the database This is a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic Unless you add a drive or add a robotic library entries for each device host are not entered in the database no host entries are present in the database 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Devices 2 Select Actions Global Device Database Add Device Host To rem...

Page 75: ... and set_gdbhost options of the tpautoconf command tpautoconf is also used by the Device Configuration wizard to automatically discover and configure devices Using the Device Configuration Wizard Using the Device Configuration wizard is the recommended method of configuring most devices You should use this wizard to configure the following types of devices Robots Drives Robots and drives attached ...

Page 76: ...er must be properly configured to create device files for any device used by NetBackup or performance and functionality is limited Each tape or optical disk drive device also has a device file that is created for use by the system tape disk driver interface which must exist for all read or write I O capability HP Tru64 UNIX Device files must exist following the naming conventions described in the ...

Page 77: ...port a unique serial number and each robot must report the serial number of each of the drives contained within the robot To recognize the connected devices device discovery used by the wizard needs to issue SCSI pass thru commands to the devices The supported server platforms may require special operating system configuration See the NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide All informat...

Page 78: ...o configuration of ACS or TLM robots and drives but the wizard can be used See Using the Device Configuration Wizard for Shared Drives on page 57 Device Mapping File This mapping file is used by the Device Configuration wizard to automatically discover and configure new robots and drives In some cases device discovery support for your new or upgraded devices may be accomplished without waiting for...

Page 79: ...a Manager configuration For example adding a new SCSI adapter may change the path to a robotic library A similar change to the configuration may occur if you add a new drive This wizard updates the Media Manager configuration to match the new configuration Managing Unsupported Devices To configure devices that are not fully supported by the Device Configuration wizard see the following topics Addi...

Page 80: ...uration wizard is the recommended method of configuring robots See Using the Device Configuration Wizard on page 41 for more information and wizard restrictions When adding a robotic library and drives the best method is to add the robot first as explained in the following procedure and then add the drives see Adding Drives on page 58 To add a robot 1 Perform the steps explained in Performing Init...

Page 81: ... Device Manager service this also stops and restarts any robotic processes If your changes are complete answer yes to this prompt Note It is possible that stopping and restarting this service will stop any backups archives or restores that are in progress Dialog Entries for Adding and Changing Robots The following topics describe the properties that you specify when you add a robotic library or ch...

Page 82: ... the list of types that Media Manager supports Specify RSM if you are adding a RSM robot To specify an RSM robot type Review the following important points about using the Microsoft Windows Removable Storage Manager RSM Your device host must be running a Windows operating system that supports RSM The Microsoft Removable Storage Manager will be in control of the robot rather than Media Manager A ro...

Page 83: ...ed by a Tape Library DLT robot be certain to specify the same robot number in all references to that library That is use the same robot number on the hosts with the drives as you do on the host that has the robotic control See Example 3 Configuring a Robot Distributed Among Multiple Servers on page 81 Volume Database Host Volume Database Host applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Specifies t...

Page 84: ...robot control button that is valid for that particular robot type and server platform as follows Robot is controlled locally by this device host Local Robot control is handled by a remote host Remote The following control button applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Robot control is attached to an NDMP host NDMP Be sure to read your NetBackup release notes or visit the VERITAS support web si...

Page 85: ...ocal Robotic device file TL8 TS8 TSD UNIX Local Robotic device file TLD UNIX Local Robotic device file TSH AIX Solaris IRIX Local Robotic device file TL4 TL8 TLD TS8 TSD Windows Local Robot device TL8 All Remote Robot control host TLD All Remote Robot control host TL8 TLD TSD TLH Windows AIX Solaris HP UX NDMP NDMP host name Robot device TLH AIX Local LMCP device file TLH UNIX except AIX and Linux...

Page 86: ... on the robot type that you selected and type of media server platform where you are adding the robot Robotic Device File on page 52 Robot Device on page 53 LMCP Device File on page 54 Library Name on page 54 Robotic Device File Robotic Device File applies only when adding a robot to a UNIX device host This file is used for SCSI connections and is located in the dev directory tree on the device ho...

Page 87: ...t Device applies only when adding a robot to a Windows device host For information on adding RSM robots to a Windows server see the appendix Microsoft Removable Storage Manager RSM on page 353 To specify the robot device 1 Click Browse If the browse operation does not find any attached robots you will see an error dialog 2 Select a robot from the list that appears in the Devices dialog 3 Click OK ...

Page 88: ...information on TLH robots see the appendix IBM Automated Tape Library ATL on page 361 To specify the library name for LMF robots controlled from a UNIX host 1 Use the Fujitsu lmadmin command to determine the library name 2 Specify the library name To specify the library name for TLH robots controlled from a UNIX host the host is not AIX or Linux Specify the library name that is configured on the U...

Page 89: ...fy the robot control host for LMF UNIX hosts only TL8 TLD or TLH robots Specify the device host that controls the robot Enter the name of the device host where you have defined or will define the robot information for this robot Referring to the figure Robot Control Host Example on page 52 you would specify eel as the Robot Control Host when adding a robot to host shark DAS Server DAS Server appli...

Page 90: ...h for Windows is not available for servers running Windows 2003 For an overview of ACS robots see the appendix Automated Cartridge System ACS on page 339 To specify the ACSLS host for ACS robot types Specify the name of the host where the ACS library software resides On some UNIX server platforms this host can also be a Media Manager device host or volume database host Robot control is attached to...

Page 91: ...or Shared Drives This is a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic Note When using the Device Configuration wizard in an SSO configuration the limitations supported devices and device hosts are different than in a configuration without shared drives See the NetBackup Shared Storage Option system administrator s guide For TL8 TLD or TLH robot types VERITAS recommends using the Device Configuration wizard...

Page 92: ...pting the other configured drives VERITAS recommends the following Use the Device Configuration wizard when possible rather than the Shared Drive wizard Use the Shared Drive wizard with caution after initial device configuration To start the Shared Drive wizard 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Devices 2 Click Actions New Shared Drive Follow the prompts fo...

Page 93: ... restart ltid To change the status of the drive select Device Monitor A prompt appears asking whether you want to stop and restart the NetBackup Device Manager service this also stops and restarts any robotic processes If your changes are complete answer yes to this prompt Note It is possible that stopping and restarting this service will abort any backups archives or restores that are in progress...

Page 94: ...o NetBackup Enterprise Server The host that is shown initially in the dialog box is the device host you selected earlier in the tree pane To specify a different device host Click the arrow and select a host from the list To specify a device host that is not in the list 1 Click New 2 In the dialog that appears enter the name of the host Drive Information Section of the Dialog Specifies information ...

Page 95: ...r 1 Click Browse 2 Select a drive No Rewind Device No Rewind Device applies only to drives on NetBackup UNIX servers Although both no rewind and rewind device files are usually available Media Manager requires only the no rewind on close device file Device files are located in the dev directory on the UNIX host If the device files do not exist create them as explained in the NetBackup Media Manage...

Page 96: ...les are in the dev directory on the UNIX host If the entry does not exist you need to create it as explained in the NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide To specify the volume header device Enter the volume header device path for the drive Cleaning Frequency Cleaning Frequency does not apply to shared drives or to any robots that do not support frequency based cleaning If you want to ...

Page 97: ...or in addition to setting or changing the cleaning frequency To specify a cleaning frequency Click an arrow and select the number of hours Drive Is In A Robotic Library To specify that a drive is under robotic control 1 Select Drive is in a robotic library 2 Enter additional information about the drive in the Robotic drive information section see Robotic Drive Information Section of the Dialog on ...

Page 98: ...S on page 64 TLH robots Tape Library Half inch See TLH on page 65 TLM robots Tape Library Multimedia See TLM on page 65 To specify the robot drive number 1 Determine the correct robot drive number You must determine which physical drive in the robot is identified by the logical device name on Windows servers or the device file on UNIX servers See Correlating Device Files to Physical Drives When Ad...

Page 99: ...e robot mounts media on the wrong drive The appendix IBM Automated Tape Library ATL on page 361 has further information TLM TLM applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server To specify a drive in a TLM Tape Library Multimedia robot 1 Select TLM 2 In the dialog enter the DAS SDLC drive name of the drive within the robot If you assign the wrong drive name Media Manager does not detect it but an error ...

Page 100: ...Server Changing the Volume Database Host for Standalone Drives Deleting Robots Deleting Drives Drive Cleaning Functions Performing Drive Diagnostics Using SANPoint Control to Investigate SAN Problems Printing Your Device Configuration Also see Making Changes to Your Hardware Configuration on page 299 for advanced configuration topics When to Perform Device Configuration Changes Device configuratio...

Page 101: ...nfiguration may occur if you add a new drive or robotic library Changing a Robot Configuration To change configuration information for a robot 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Devices 2 Select the Robots tab in the Devices pane 3 Select the robotic library you want to change 4 Select Edit Change A dialog appears showing the current information for the sel...

Page 102: ... Enterprise Server topic An SSO license is required on each master and media server or SAN media server to configure and use a shared drive To change a drive to a shared drive 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Devices 2 Select the Drives tab in the Devices pane 3 Select the non shared drive that you want to change 4 Right click and select Configure Shared ...

Page 103: ...st 5 To change the host enter the new host name in the text box or select a new host by clicking Browse You can enter the name of any server that has Media Manager installed even if it does not have any attached drives However VERITAS recommends that you use a single volume database host for all your volumes robotic and standalone It is possible to maintain separate volume databases on multiple se...

Page 104: ...nsole click Media and Device Management Devices 2 Select the Drives tab in the Devices pane 3 Select the drive you want to delete 4 Select Edit Delete 5 Answer the delete confirmation dialog Drive Cleaning Functions See Drive Cleaning on page 275 for background information on types of drive cleaning and cleaning tapes To add a cleaning tape perform Adding New Volumes on page 116 and specify a clea...

Page 105: ...s allow you to perform the following functions Select To Clean Now Start an operator initiated cleaning of the selected drive regardless of the cleaning frequency or accumulated mount time If the drive is a standalone drive it must contain a cleaning tape and a mount request will be issued Clean Now resets the mount time to zero but the cleaning frequency value remains the same Reset Mount Time Re...

Page 106: ...ake several minutes to complete so the cleaning information in the Drives List may not be updated immediately You may also need to refresh the Drives List display Performing Drive Diagnostics Media Manager drive diagnostic functions allow you to execute and manage drive diagnostic tests The diagnostic test steps are executed in an ordered sequence to verify the functionality of hardware devices co...

Page 107: ...in the Device Host box 4 For the drive that you want to test do the following a Manually set the drive state to DOWN b Manually insert a pre labeled test tape with a NetBackup recorded label into the drive c In the Drive Name box select the drive Information for the drive you selected is displayed in the Drive Information section 5 Click Start to start the diagnostic tests The results of each step...

Page 108: ... Test Step You can get information for a test step at any time during the test To obtain information 1 Select a test step in the Results section 2 Click Details A dialog appears that displays detail information for the step The information includes a brief explanation of the checks performed by a specific step and the instructions associated with any step that requires manual intervention For exam...

Page 109: ...rent NetBackup Problem SANPoint Control Advantage NetBackup shows that a device is up but the backups to that device continually fail Select the device and launch SANPoint Control This allows you to see if the device is still connected to the SAN or if there are other SAN problems that have made the device unavailable yet technically still up A NetBackup backup job fails intermittently and the dri...

Page 110: ...nd to see what types of SAN errors may be happening to help you diagnose problems 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click NetBackup Management Reports 2 Select Actions View SANPoint Control Reports This will launch a browser with the main reports screen See your SANPoint Control documentation for more information Printing Your Device Configuration To print your current device configuration...

Page 111: ...amples Example 1 Configuring a Robot on a Server This configuration has a tape stacker containing two 8mm tape drives The robot and drives are connected to a server running Microsoft Windows Robotic Control Information Volume Database Robotic Drive Information for Drives 1 and 2 Robotic Drive 2 8mm Robotic Drive 1 8mm Robot Number 0 Device Name Drive Name Tape0 Tape1 eel_dr_1 eel_dr_2 TS8 Windows ...

Page 112: ... host Set cannot be changed for this robot type Robot Device Selecting a robot device sets the SCSI Port Bus Target and LUN numbers in the dialog for Windows NT servers and for other Windows servers where a changer driver is not in control of the robot On Windows 2000 servers and later supported operating system levels where a changer driver is in control of the robot selecting a robot device sets...

Page 113: ... Tape1 Cleaning Frequency 0 hours Drive is in a Robotic Library Yes Robotic Library TS8 0 eel Robot Drive Number 2 Robotic Drive 1 8mm Robotic Drive 2 8mm Robotic Drive Information for Drives 1 5 Device Name Drive Name Tape0 Tape1 eel_dr_1 eel_dr_2 TS8 Volume Database Robotic Control Information Drive Name Device Name Tape2 Tape3 Tape4 4mm Drive eel_qdrv_3 eel_qdrv_2 eel_4mm_drv_4 qscsi Drive qscs...

Page 114: ...ion information for the robot and its two drives is the same as in Example 1 Configuring a Robot on a Server on page 77 and is not repeated here Add Drive Dialog Entries Tape2 Device Host eel Drive Name eel_qdrv_2 Drive Type 1 4 Cartridge qscsi Device Name Tape2 Drive is in a Robotic Library No Add Drive Dialog Entries Tape3 Device Host eel Drive Name eel_qdrv_3 Drive Type 1 4 Cartridge qscsi Devi...

Page 115: ...ervers run the Device Configuration wizard or complete the Add Robot and Add Drive dialog entries as shown in the following tables Some things to note when examining these tables follow Drive is in a Robotic Library No Add Drive Dialog Entries Tape4 continued Robotic Control Information Volume Database Robotic Drive Information for Drive 1 Robotic Drive Information for Drive 2 Robotic Drive Inform...

Page 116: ...ion on the Windows Server eel Use the following entries in the Add Robot and Add Drive dialogs Add Robot Dialog Entries Device Host eel Robot Type TL8 Tape Library 8MM Volume Database Host eel Robot Number 0 Robot is controlled locally by this device host Set Robot Device Selecting a robot device sets the SCSI Port Bus Target and LUN numbers in the dialog for Windows NT hosts and for other Windows...

Page 117: ...a Robotic Library Yes Robotic Library TL8 0 eel Robot Drive Number 1 Add Robot Dialog Entries Device Host shark Robot Type TL8 Tape Library 8MM Volume Database Host eel Robot Number 0 Robot control is handled by a remote host Set Robot Control Host eel Add Drive Dialog Entries Drive 2 Device Host shark Drive Name shark_drive_2 Drive Type 8mm Cartridge 8mm Device Name Tape1 Cleaning Frequency 0 hou...

Page 118: ...Drive Number 2 Add Robot Dialog Entries Device Host whale Robot Type TL8 Tape Library 8MM Volume Database Host eel Robot Number 0 Robot control is handled by a remote host Set Robot Control Host eel Add Drive Dialog Entries Drive 3 Device Host whale Drive Name whale_drive_3 Drive Type 8mm Cartridge 8mm No Rewind Device dev nrst15 Cleaning Frequency 20 hours Drive Status UP Drive is in a Robotic Li...

Page 119: ...erver shark Items to note when reviewing these tables follow The ACSLS host in the Add Robot dialog is host whale where the ACS library software resides In this example Automated Cartridge System Library Software ACSLS is installed as the ACS library software Robot Drive Number 3 Add Drive Dialog Entries Drive 3 continued Robotic Drive Information for Drives 0 and 1 Volume Database acsd SCSI STK L...

Page 120: ...ssible for the drives to connect through an independent control unit If so the correct Logical Unit Numbers lun are needed in order to find the correct tape name to use The Add Robot dialog entries include an ACSLS Host entry since communication with the ACS library software host is over the network using STK LibAttach software This software must be installed on each Windows server that has ACS dr...

Page 121: ...otic Library ACS 0 whale ACS ACS 0 LSM 0 PANEL 2 DRIVE 0 Add Drive Dialog Entries Drive 1 Device Host shark Drive Type 1 2 Cartridge hcart Drive Name shark_drive_1 Device Name Tape1 Drive is in a Robotic Library Yes Robotic Library ACS 0 whale ACS ACS 0 LSM 0 PANEL 2 DRIVE 1 Add Drive Dialog Entries Drive 0 continued ...

Page 122: ...Robot and Drive Configuration Examples 88 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 123: ... If you have Backup Exec volumes to manage see the Backup Exec tape reader topics in the NetBackup system administrator s guides for Windows servers If you have volumes without barcodes to manage see Using the Physical Inventory Utility for Non Barcoded Media on page 290 Starting Media Management In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Media The media management w...

Page 124: ...es Pane Status Bar Shortcut Menus and Commands Customizing the Window Allowable Media Manager Characters Menus and Commands The media management window contains the menus and commands shown in the following table The menu items are enabled and available based on the items that are currently selected in the tree pane or volumes pane For example if a volume group is selected in the tree pane the Del...

Page 125: ...rts the NetBackup backup archive and restore GUI MS SQL Client Shortcut to access the SQL server NetBackup client if it is installed on the selected host Print Setup Displays a setup dialog for printing Print Preview Previews the print image Print Prints the contents of the volumes pane Close Closes the current window Exit Closes all open windows Edit Undo Allows you to cancel the last action Cut ...

Page 126: ...edia access port Label Displays a dialog for labeling unassigned media Long Erase Displays a dialog to perform a full erase of unassigned media Quick Erase Displays a dialog to perform a short erase of unassigned media Inventory Robot Displays a dialog with choices for performing an inventory of the selected robot or updating the volume configuration to match the contents of the robot Help Help To...

Page 127: ...ons Use Default to reset the buttons on the toolbar Tree Pane The tree pane for Media contains nodes for Volume Pools Volume Groups Robots and Standalone The display in the Volumes pane the pane on the right shows the volumes that are in the volume database on this server If you add any volumes they are added to this volume database If there are no volumes configured in the volume database the Vol...

Page 128: ...umns in the various volume lists If you select Volume Groups the Volumes pane contains information for all volume groups in the volume database on this server see the Volume Groups List on page 96 Selecting an individual group displays information about the volumes in that group see the Volumes List on page 98 If you select Volume Pools the Volumes pane contains information for all volume pools in...

Page 129: ...ngle application and are protected from access by other applications and users The following volume pool names are reserved None is the default pool for users of applications other than NetBackup and Storage Migrator NetBackup is the default pool name for NetBackup DataStore is the default pool name for DataStore HSM is the default pool name for VERITAS Storage Migrator Number Number assigned to t...

Page 130: ...me physical location Volume groups are a convenience for administrating multiple volumes By using a volume group you can logically move a set of volumes between a robotic library and a standalone location or delete them by specifying the group name rather than specifying each individual media ID More than one volume group can share the same location For example a robotic library can contain volume...

Page 131: ...robot is defined Robot Type Type of robot that contains this volume See Media Manager Robot Types on page 250 for a list of supported robot types Robot Number Number of the robot Volume Database Host The name of the volume database host for the volumes in this robot Serial Number The serial number of the robot Robot Control Host Name of the host that is providing the robotic control This column co...

Page 132: ...de label attached to a volume A barcode is used to identify the volume Media Type Media type of the volume See Media Manager Media Types on page 251 for a list of the supported media types Robot Type Type of robot that contains this volume See Media Manager Robot Types on page 250 for a list of supported robot types NONE in this column means a standalone volume Robot Number Number of the robot tha...

Page 133: ...ouped together for use by a single application and are protected from access by other applications and users See Volume Pools List on page 95 for more information None is the default pool name for users of applications other than NetBackup DataStore and Storage Migrator NetBackup is the default pool name for NetBackup DataStore is the default pool name for DataStore HSM is the default pool name fo...

Page 134: ...me If the media type is an optical disk this column shows A or B representing the platter side on which the volume is located For any other media type this column contains a hyphen Partner For optical disks this column shows the media ID of the volume on the other side of the optical platter For all other media types the column contains a hyphen You define this value as Partner ID when you add the...

Page 135: ...ate and time that the volume was added to Media Manager Description Describes the media in 25 or less alphanumeric characters You specify a description when you add volumes Vault Name Contains the name of the vault where this volume is located Applies only to the NetBackup Vault option Date Vaulted Contains the date this volume was sent to the vault Applies only to the NetBackup Vault option Retur...

Page 136: ...icon or an object Indicates the name of the master server Indicates if you are connected to the master server To show or hide the status bar Click View Status Bar Shortcut Menus and Commands Shortcut menus work in the context of what object is currently selected in a pane Shortcut commands are also available on the menus or toolbars To display a shortcut menu Click the right mouse button while the...

Page 137: ...e for Windows for more details To show or hide columns or rearrange the order of columns Click View Columns Layout Allowable Media Manager Characters The following set of characters can be used in user defined names such as volume groups volume pool names and media IDs that you enter when creating these entities These characters must be used even when specifying these items in foreign languages Do...

Page 138: ...alize the volume database on one host and keep the volume databases on other hosts empty Adding volumes to multiple hosts makes administration more complicated You can enforce this practice by adding a NOT_DATABASE_HOST entry in the Media Manager configuration file vm conf The vmdb_merge command can be used to merge volume pool and media databases See the NetBackup commands guide for details For r...

Page 139: ...can manage media on the server where you are running NetBackup The name of this server and its connection status is shown in the status bar on the lower right side of the window for example Master Server spain Connected You also can change from the current server to a different master or media server If you change from a NetBackup Enterprise Server to a NetBackup Server the functionality available...

Page 140: ... volumes with a volume pool protects them from access by unauthorized users groups or applications With the exception of the volume pools that are automatically created by NetBackup you must create a volume pool before you can add volumes to a volume pool The following volume pools are automatically created see Volume Pools List on page 95 Media Manager creates a pool named NetBackup for NetBackup...

Page 141: ...r a name for the new volume pool The name must be 20 characters or less and cannot contain any spaces or special characters See Allowable Media Manager Characters on page 103 4 In the Description text box enter a brief description for the pool 5 This step applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server To allow only a specified host to use the volumes in this pool do the following a Select Permit only...

Page 142: ...back to the scratch volume pool automatically To add a scratch volume pool 1 Specify attributes for the scratch pool as shown in the following table 2 Add volumes to the scratch volume pool for each robotic or standalone device that may require them Follow the steps for adding other volumes to pools see Adding New Volumes on page 116 In this case select the pool name of the scratch pool you create...

Page 143: ... Changing a Volume Pool To be a Scratch Volume Pool on page 110 5 This step applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server To allow only a specified host to use the volumes in this pool a Select Permit only the specified host to access volumes in the pool b In the Host name text box enter the name of the host that is allowed to request and use the volumes in this volume pool Caution VERITAS recommend...

Page 144: ...ay require them Follow the steps for adding other volumes to pools see Adding New Volumes on page 116 In this case select the name of the scratch pool as the volume pool Changing the Volume Pool Assignment for a Volume Volumes are grouped in a specific volume pool The Volume Pool column in the Volumes list shows the name of the volume pool to which the volumes belong Volume Pool does not apply to ...

Page 145: ...lume pools Select a volume pool from the list 5 Click OK Deleting a Volume Pool Note that you cannot delete any of the following pools A volume pool that contains volumes Scratch pools The NetBackup volume pool The None volume pool The HSM volume pool for VERITAS Storage Migrator The DataStore volume pool To delete a volume pool 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Mana...

Page 146: ...the media access port to inject a volume into a robotic library Inject volume into robot via the media access port is available only for the robot types listed in the matrix shown in Inject and Eject Functions Available by Robot Type on page 115 Inject volume into robot via the media access port may be enabled for some robots that do not have media access ports since the robot type for the robotic...

Page 147: ...or volumes have been moved the configuration update proceeds as usual Empty media access port prior to update is available only for the robot types listed in the matrix shown in Inject and Eject Functions Available by Robot Type on page 115 Empty media access port prior to update may be available for some robots that do not have media access ports since these robot types only indicate that media a...

Page 148: ... volumes See Media Ejection Timeout Periods on page 116 See Moving Volumes on page 128 for complete instructions Using the Eject Volumes From Robot Command Select Actions Eject Volume s From Robot to eject one or more selected volumes from a robotic library Eject Volume s From Robot is only available for the robot types shown in the matrix in Inject and Eject Functions Available by Robot Type on p...

Page 149: ...ODL and TSH robot types the robot must be attached to a UNIX server running NetBackup Inject Eject Functions Available for NetBackup Server Robot Types Media Manager Function Inject Single Volume Eject Single or Multiple Volumes Dialog Type 1 Eject Single or Multiple Volumes Dialog Type 2 New Volumes ODL TL8 TLD TSH NA NA Move Volumes ODL TL8 TLD TSH TL8 TLD ODL RSM TSH Robot Inventory TL8 TLD NA ...

Page 150: ...ng or removing volumes it is recommended to run an inventory on the robot Adding New Volumes Media Manager volumes are logical units of data storage or cleaning capability on media that have been assigned media IDs and other attributes which are recorded in the Media Manager volume database The attributes in the volume database include information to show the robotic location This residence inform...

Page 151: ... To Be Used in Standalone Drives The easiest way to add standalone volumes is to use the Volume Configuration wizard See Using the Volume Configuration Wizard on page 126 for more details You can also configure volumes automatically by inserting the media into a standalone drive For an unused volume NetBackup assigns a media ID labels the volume and uses it if it needs a volume of that type for a ...

Page 152: ...of its volumes and in most cases performs this operation automatically If a volume in a robotic library has not been labeled NetBackup labels it with the media ID assigned by Media Manager the first time that it uses the volumes for a backup This action is done unless those volumes were last used for NetBackup catalog backups you do not want to label these volumes unless they are no longer being u...

Page 153: ...ormation on robot inventory and media ID generation rules When you use barcode rules new volumes that are added through a barcode rule are assigned a media type volume pool maximum number of mounts or maximum cleanings and description To add volumes using a robot inventory update 1 Insert the volume into the robotic library 2 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Managemen...

Page 154: ...l be using the new volumes See Determining the Volume Database Host for a Device on page 104 4 Click Actions New New Volumes 5 Specify the properties for the volumes as explained in Dialog Entries for New Volumes on page 121 Note Be careful when specifying properties since you cannot change properties such as the media ID or media type later To change these properties you need to delete the volume...

Page 155: ...Manager running on a Windows host does not support optical disk volumes Media Type specifies the media type for the volume that you are going to add To specify a media type Click the arrow and select from the list If you are adding a cleaning tape choose one of the cleaning tape media types Robot Robot specifies the robotic library to which you are adding the volumes You can specify a different ro...

Page 156: ... slots that must be reserved for the new volumes Depending on the number of volumes you are adding you must also specify additional information as shown in the following table To specify the number of volumes Click an arrow and select a number for the volumes Media ID Naming Style Media IDs for an API robot must always match the barcodes Media Manager supports barcodes from 1 to 6 characters This ...

Page 157: ...o specify media IDs for more than one volume Enter an ID for the new volumes in the First Media ID text box Use the same pattern that you chose in the Media ID naming style box This is the ID for the first volume in the range of volumes that you are adding Media Manager names the remaining volumes by incrementing the digits Media Description Enter a 1 to 25 ASCII character description of the media...

Page 158: ...cumentation for information on the expected life of the volume 2 Click an arrow and specify the maximum mounts Note Specify zero to permit an unlimited number of mounts To specify maximum cleanings Click an arrow and specify the number of cleanings Note The number that you specify must be greater than zero Volume Group Volume groups are not the same as volume pools Refer to Volume Pools and Volume...

Page 159: ... For example a robotic library can contain volumes from more than one volume group and you can have more than one standalone volume group All members of a group must be in the same robotic library or be standalone That is Media Manager will not let you add a group or part of a group to a robotic library if it already exists in another robotic library To enter a volume group Enter a name for the vo...

Page 160: ...d Use the Volume Configuration wizard to do the following tasks Inventory your robots Identify cleaning media in your robots Add volumes for standalone drives Update the Media Manager volume database After running this wizard to configure media each media will have a unique media ID in the volume database that is used by NetBackup and Media Manager to track the media Volume Configuration Wizard Li...

Page 161: ...he Volume Configuration Wizard The following table shows the screens displayed by the wizard and what to expect in each Wizard Screen What to Expect Welcome With this wizard you can Inventory the volumes in a robotic library Create new volumes for use in standalone drives Select Device You select one of the following The robot that you want to inventory The type of standalone drive where you want ...

Page 162: ...er robotic library you must move the volumes to standalone as an intermediate step and then to the new robotic library For background information see Moving Volumes on page 284 You can move volumes using one of the following methods Moving Volumes Using the Robot Inventory Update Option Moving Volumes Using the Actions Menu Identify Cleaning Media Screen appears only if a robot was selected To avo...

Page 163: ... page 160 for more information Moving Volumes Using the Actions Menu If you move a volume to a robotic library that has a barcode reader Media Manager updates the media database to show the correct barcode for the volume When moving volumes from one robotic library to another you must move the volumes to standalone as an intermediate step and then to the new robotic library To move volumes using t...

Page 164: ... you selected two full volumes to move out of a robotic library and two standalone volumes to move in as replacements for these volumes a dialog appears for the two full volumes and another dialog for the two replacement volumes In this example you must complete both move dialogs to execute the move complete the move for the volumes that are full first Note These multiple Move Volumes dialogs may ...

Page 165: ...robot via the media access port an eject dialog appears See Ejecting Volumes From Robots Actions Menu Command on page 136 for more information on the eject dialogs Dialog Entries for Move Volumes Volumes to Move The Volumes to Move section of the dialog shows the Media IDs of the volumes that you selected to move If you selected only one side of an optical disk platter that side is shown but both ...

Page 166: ...ne robot Select Standalone Find Robots Use Find Robots to move volumes to a robot that does not appear in the Robot box for example a new robot To specify a robot that does not appear in the box 1 Select Find Robots 2 Select a robot in the dialog that appears 3 Click OK The name of the robot that you select appears in the Robot box and is also the robot name that will be in the volume database for...

Page 167: ...n another robotic library To enter a volume group Enter the name of the volume group for the volumes that you are moving To select a volume group Click the arrow and select from the list of previously configured volume groups First Slot Number For volumes in a robotic library specify the first slot number to be used in the destination robotic library By default this box shows the slot number that ...

Page 168: ...ngle volume using the media access port Select Inject volume into robot via the media access port The robotic library will move the volume to the correct slot When to Delete Volumes There may be times when you want to delete volumes for example if any of the following situations apply The volume is No longer used and you want to recycle it by relabeling it with a different media ID Unusable becaus...

Page 169: ... volumes from the storage device Deleting a Volume Group To delete volume groups 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Media 2 In the volumes list look at the Time Assigned column to check if any of the volumes in the group you want to delete are currently assigned If any of the volumes are assigned you cannot delete the group until these volumes are deassigne...

Page 170: ...2 In the volumes pane select one or more volumes that you want to eject 3 Click Actions Eject Volume s From Robot Eject Volumes Dialog Type 1 For some robot types the following dialog is displayed showing the volumes you selected See Inject and Eject Functions Available by Robot Type on page 115 for an explanation of the robot types where this dialog type applies 1 In normal cases after the pre ch...

Page 171: ... For most robot types you are prompted to remove the media from the media access port so the eject can continue with the remaining volumes Eject Volumes Dialog Type 2 For some robot types the following dialog is displayed showing the volumes you selected See Inject and Eject Functions Available by Robot Type on page 115 for an explanation of the robot types where this dialog type applies If you se...

Page 172: ...me If you want existing labels that are found on the media to be overwritten do not select Verify media label before performing operation Click OK 5 A dialog warning you that this action is irreversible appears Click OK if you are certain you want to start the labeling action 6 A dialog reminding you to use the Activity Monitor to view the progress and status of the action appears Click OK If you ...

Page 173: ...a Some drives do not support a quick erase for example QUANTUM DLT7000 For drives that do not support a quick erase the new tape header that is written acts as an application specific quick erase SCSI Long Erase If you select a long erase Media Manager will do a SCSI Long Erase For this erase the media is rewound and the data on the tape is overwritten with a known data pattern A SCSI Long Erase i...

Page 174: ...ore performing operation in step 4 and the label found on the volume does not match the expected label of the volume that you specified in step 2 the media will not be erased Use the Activity Monitor to view the status of the action Caution Canceling an erase job from the Activity Monitor may not be possible for many types of drives Deassigning Volumes An assigned volume is currently assigned for ...

Page 175: ...r instructions Deassigning NetBackup Regular Backup Volumes NetBackup deassigns a regular backup volume when the retention periods have expired for all backups on the volume If you do not need the data and do not want to wait for normal expiration to occur you can expire the backup by using the bpexpdate command on the master server This command is located in the install_path NetBackup bin admincm...

Page 176: ...ar backup volumes To deassign these volumes assuming they do not contain any important data specify None or a different media ID for catalog backups Then the media is available to be reassigned or deleted or its volume pool can be changed See the NetBackup system administrator s guide for UNIX or the guide for Windows servers for more information Deassigning Storage Migrator Volumes If a volume is...

Page 177: ...ange Volumes on page 143 5 Click OK to apply the changes to the selected volumes Dialog Entries for Change Volumes Maximum Mounts Maximum Mounts does not apply to cleaning tapes Controls the number of times that the selected volumes can be mounted To help determine the maximum mount limit to use consult your vendor documentation for information on the expected life of the volume To not make any ch...

Page 178: ...nsidered too old to be reliable When the expiration date has passed a volume can still be read but will not be mounted for a write When you add a new volume there is no default expiration date The expiration date is not the same as the retention period for the backup data on the volume The expiration date that you can set in this dialog refers only to the physical expiration of the volume and is i...

Page 179: ... To not make any changes to Volume pool Select Do not change To specify a volume pool 1 Click New Pool 2 Click the arrow and select from the list of previously configured volume pools Number of Cleanings Remaining Number of Cleanings Remaining applies only to cleaning tapes Specifies the number of cleanings that are allowed for the cleaning tape This number is decremented with each cleaning and wh...

Page 180: ...he volume list select the volumes that you want to change the volume group assignment for 3 Click Actions Change Volume Group 4 Enter a name in the New volume group name box or click the arrow to select a name from the list of volume groups 5 Click OK The name change is reflected in the volume list entry for the selected volumes If you specified a new volume group the group appears under Volume Gr...

Page 181: ...e Moving Volumes on page 128 If the volume is in a robotic library you may want to take it out of the robotic library and move it to a standalone group 2 Add a new volume or move an existing volume in as a replacement for the volume you removed If you add a new volume specify some of the same attributes as the old volume such as robotic residence volume pool and the media type Make sure you specif...

Page 182: ...y based media but relabeling puts the media in a known state the external and recorded media labels match and the mode is known to be compatible with the drives in the robotic library Recycling Volumes Caution Recycle a volume only if all NetBackup data on the volume is no longer needed or if the volume is damaged and unusable Otherwise you may encounter serious operational problems and a possible...

Page 183: ...Delete Volumes on page 134 5 Add a new volume entry and physically add the volume to the storage device See Adding New Volumes on page 116 6 Set the maximum mounts to a value that is equal to or less than the following value that you calculate Calculate value as follows value number of mounts that the manufacturer recommends the value that you recorded in step 3 This is necessary because the count...

Page 184: ...Recycling Volumes 150 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 185: ...ckup Exec volumes to manage see the Backup Exec tape reader topics in the NetBackup system administrator s guide for Windows servers If you have volumes without barcodes to manage see Using the Physical Inventory Utility for Non Barcoded Media on page 290 Overview of Robot Inventory Operations The following operations are available using the functions of the Robot Inventory dialog Show contents In...

Page 186: ... updates the volume database to match the contents of the robot For detailed instructions see Procedure To Update the Volume Configuration on page 163 If you select Update volume configuration you also have the following capabilities available Advanced Options If you select Advanced Options you have the following additional update capabilities available If the option is not applicable for a partic...

Page 187: ...e configuration with the changes or reject the changes Empty media access port prior to update Allows you to move inject volumes in the robot s media access port into the robot Accessing the Robot Inventory Dialog To use the Robot Inventory dialog for robot management tasks for example Comparing Robot Contents with the Volume Configuration on page 158 you will first need to perform the following s...

Page 188: ...Robot box contains the selected robot 4 This step applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server To select a robot on a different host click the arrow and select a device host from the list 5 To select a different robotic library on a host click the arrow and select from the list of robots on that host In the dialog the Device host box contains the name of the host that controls the robot and the Rob...

Page 189: ...ow contents To clear any previous display in the Results section click Clear Results 3 Click Start to start the inventory The inventory report appears in the Results section of the dialog Show Contents Report non API robot For robots other than API robots that have a barcode reader Media Manager obtains the barcode from the robot and includes it in the report See Robot Attributes on page 253 for i...

Page 190: ...bots The following figure shows an example report for an ACS robot The reports for other API robots are similar to this report Show Contents Report API Robot ACS Robots This is a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic Media Manager reports what it receives from ACS library software The resulting report shows the ACS library software volume ID the ACS media type and the Media Manager media type The Medi...

Page 191: ...he LMF appendix in the NetBackup Media Manager system administrator s guide for UNIX for more information on how Media Manager reports what it receives from LMF RSM Robots Media Manager reports what it receives from the Windows Removable Storage service The resulting report shows a list of media by media name obtained from the service along with their RSM and Media Manager media types See the RSM ...

Page 192: ...ptional barcode rules See the TLM appendix ADIC Distributed AML Server DAS Scalar Distributed Library Controller SDLC on page 373 for more information on how Media Manager reports what it receives from the DAS SDLC server Comparing Robot Contents with the Volume Configuration To compare robot contents with the volume configuration 1 Perform the steps described in Accessing the Robot Inventory Dial...

Page 193: ...tion on page 163 Compare Volume Configuration Reports The Results section of the dialog shows any discrepancies as follows If the robot can read barcodes see Robot Attributes on page 253 the report includes barcode information Media Manager determines if the barcodes in the robot match those in the volume database The following figure shows a sample compare report Note Selecting a device host appl...

Page 194: ...bot Reports for other API robots are similar to this report See Robot Inventory Operations on page 348 for more information on what Media Manager receives from ACS library software Compare Contents Report API Robot If the robotic library cannot read barcodes Media Manager verifies only whether the volume database correctly shows whether a slot contains a volume Updating the Volume Configuration fo...

Page 195: ...he volume database to show the new standalone location You specify the volume group to use Inserting new volumes into a robotic library The configuration update includes creation of media IDs based on barcodes or a prefix that you specify When you use barcode rules a new volume that is added by using a barcode rule is also assigned a media type volume pool maximum number of mounts or maximum numbe...

Page 196: ...s These updates move the volumes to standalone as an intermediate step and then to the new robot If these updates are not done Media Manager is unable to update the entries and you receive an Update failed error See Example 6 Moving Existing Volumes Between Robots on page 203 When Not to Use Update Volume Configuration The following situations require a move operation or use of the Media Manager p...

Page 197: ...e See Using the Physical Inventory Utility for Non Barcoded Media on page 290 for more information Procedure To Update the Volume Configuration The following point applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Before adding a volume to the Media Manager volume database you must be managing the correct server or the volume will not be found when it is requested later To determine the capabilities of ...

Page 198: ...to the Media Manager volume database 5 To move inject one or more volumes in the robot s media access port into the robotic library before initiating the update select Empty media access port prior to update Any volumes to be injected must be in the media access port before the operation begins If Empty media access port prior to update is selected and there are no volumes in the port you are not ...

Page 199: ...could be injected back into the robotic library 6 To clear any previous display in the Results section click Clear Results Click Start to start the update or the preview 7 If you selected Preview changes and any recommended changes are found the dialog will ask if you want to accept the recommended changes shown in the Results section Select Yes to perform the update with the recommended changes E...

Page 200: ...olume Configuration Report Not an API Robot The following figure shows an example report for an ACS robot Reports for other API robots are similar to this report Robot inventory update will return an error if it encounters unsupported characters in the volume serial number or media identifier that are returned by API robots ...

Page 201: ...Chapter 4 Managing Media in Robots Updating the Volume Configuration for a Robot 167 Update Volume Configuration Report API Robot ...

Page 202: ...rties for the Media Settings Tab on page 168 To reset all properties on this tab to their defaults click Reset to Defaults 3 When you are satisfied with your settings click OK to return to the Robot Inventory dialog to continue the update Properties for the Media Settings Tab The following sections explain the settings you can use on this tab Media Which Have Been Removed From the Robot This prope...

Page 203: ...e following table See Media Type on page 172 Media Which Have Been Moved Into or Within the Robot This property specifies the volume group that Media Manager assigns to existing media that you have inserted into the robot or moved to a new location within the robot If you leave the volume group set at DEFAULT and there is an existing group with a compatible residence for the volume the volume is a...

Page 204: ... depend on the Media type selection as shown in the following table See Media Type on page 172 Use the Following Media ID Prefix You should specify a Media ID prefix for any new media if either of the following conditions exist The robotic library does not support barcodes The volume that was inserted does not have readable barcodes If the robotic library supports barcodes and the volume has reada...

Page 205: ...select NOT USED the operation succeeds only if the robotic library supports barcodes and the volume has readable barcodes Otherwise Media Manager is unable to assign new media IDs and the operation fails NOT USED may be useful if you are using barcoded volumes and want updates to fail when unreadable or missing barcodes are encountered If you want media IDs for media generated based on a specific ...

Page 206: ...ULT for API robots See Media Type Mappings Tab Advanced Options on page 187 for instructions for specifying media types for API robots Use Media type to specify the media type for new media that is being added to a robot The list displayed shows the media types that are valid for the robot The following is an example list for a TLD robotic library DEFAULT 1 2 cartridge tape 1 2 cartridge tape 2 8M...

Page 207: ...e valid for this robotic library If you want to use the media type shown in first column of the following table select the type as described in the second column Are You Using Barcodes See the Instructions in No Specifying Media Type when not using barcode rules on page 173 Yes Specifying Media Type when using barcode rules on page 175 Media Type Select The default media type DEFAULT If all of the...

Page 208: ...fault media type for the robot Default Media Types for Robots Not API robots Robot Type Default Media Type Optical Disk Library ODL Rewritable optical disk Also supports write once read many WORM operations Tape Library 4MM TL4 4MM cartridge tape Tape Library 8MM TL8 8MM cartridge tape Also supports 8MM cartridge tape 2 and 8MM cartridge tape 3 Tape Library DLT TLD DLT cartridge tape Also supports...

Page 209: ...t For example to use the same barcode rule to add DLT or half inch cartridges to a TLD robot select a specific media type on the Media Settings tab and select DEFAULT for the barcode rule media type when you create the barcode rule Now you can perform one update for DLT and another for half inch cartridge and use the same rule for both The media type on the Media Settings tab always overrides the ...

Page 210: ...The sixth and seventh rules in the table illustrate how to add only a cleaning tape In the sixth rule you specify the cleaning media type on the Media Settings tab and in the barcode rule In the seventh rule you specify the cleaning media on the Media Settings tab and choose default when you configure the barcode rule Volume Pool Use this property to specify the volume pool to which you want to as...

Page 211: ...on page 172 For background information see Barcode Rules on page 287 The following topics explain how to manage barcode rules Adding a New Barcode Rule Changing a Barcode Rule Deleting a Barcode Rule If You are Using Barcode Rules and You Want Then Select To let the barcode rule determine the volume pool that is assigned to new volumes DEFAULT from the list To use a volume pool other than the defa...

Page 212: ...istrator s Guide for Windows Dialog Properties for Adding or Changing Barcode Rules Adding a New Barcode Rule To add a barcode rule 1 In the Advanced Robot Inventory Options dialog click Barcode Rules 2 On the Barcode Rules tab click New 3 Specify the properties for the new barcode rule ...

Page 213: ...anges See Dialog Properties for Adding or Changing Barcode Rules on page 180 for help in changing the properties of the rule You cannot change the barcode tag of a barcode rule using the change dialog To change a barcode tag you must first delete the old rule and then add a rule with a new barcode tag 5 When you are satisfied with your settings click OK to return to the Robot Inventory dialog and ...

Page 214: ...when rules are used and the volume has an unreadable barcode or the robotic library does not support barcodes DEFAULT For volumes with barcodes this tag matches when none of the other barcode tags match providing the media type in the DEFAULT rule and the media type on the Media Settings tab are compatible Use the Media Settings tab to set up the criteria for a robot update see Media Settings Tab ...

Page 215: ...t for cleaning media or be DEFAULT to obtain a match for the media type To enable barcode rule support for API robots you must add an API_BARCODE_RULES entry in the vm conf file For an API robot the media type is always set to DEFAULT on the Media Settings tab A barcode rule is not used unless the media type specified in the barcode rule is compatible with the media type on the Media Type Mappings...

Page 216: ...c volume pool then that selection overrides the pool you specified in the barcode rule If you want the media type for the barcode rule to match Select the following media type for the barcode rule Resulting media type that is used Any media type that you select on the Media Settings tab DEFAULT The media type that you select on the Media Settings tab If you also select DEFAULT on the Media Setting...

Page 217: ...bot cannot be an API robot Media ID generation rules allows you to override the default Media Manager media ID naming method The Media Manager default method uses the last six characters of the barcode label to generate the media ID You control how media IDs are created by defining rules that specify which characters of a barcode label will be used in the media ID For background information see Me...

Page 218: ...Media ID Generation Rule To add a rule 1 In the Advanced Robot Inventory Options dialog click Media ID Generation 2 On the Media ID Generation tab click New 3 Specify the properties for the new media ID generation rule See Dialog Properties for Adding or Changing Media ID Generation Rules on page 185 for help on specifying rules ...

Page 219: ...ialog Properties for Adding or Changing Media ID Generation Rules on page 185 for help in changing the rule 5 When you are satisfied with your settings click OK to return to the Robot Inventory dialog and proceed with the update Deleting a Media ID Generation Rule To delete a rule 1 In the Advanced Robot Inventory Options dialog click Media ID Generation 2 On the Media ID Generation tab select a r...

Page 220: ...are to be extracted For example 2 in a field extracts the second character from the barcode the numbering is done from the left The numbers can be specified in any order Characters prefixed by in a field result in that character being inserted in that position in the generated ID Any alphanumeric characters that are specified must be valid for a media ID The following table shows some examples of ...

Page 221: ...f the API robot tables see Default and Allowable Media Types for API Robots on page 189 2 In addition the tab also shows any robot specific media mappings you have added to the Media Manager configuration file see Adding Mapping Entries to vm conf on page 189 If the vm conf file does not exist or it does not contain media mapping entries for that robot and media type the tab shows only the default...

Page 222: ...t has been selected for inventory 2 Select the row that contains the robot vendor media type mapping that you would like to change and click Change Mapping 3 In the Change Media Mapping dialog click the arrow and select a Media Manager type from the list of allowable choices Click OK To reset the Media Type Mappings tab to show the original default mappings click Reset to Defaults the defaults sho...

Page 223: ...he following tables contain the default and allowable media types for the API robots The second column of each table shows the default media type and the third column shows the allowable media types to which you can change the defaults by creating map entries in the vm conf file For example the Allowable Media Types Through Mappings column of the third and fourth rows of the following table shows ...

Page 224: ...RT2 HCART3 DD3D 1 2 inch cartridge cleaning tape 2 HC2_CLN HC_CLN HC2_CLN HC3_CLN DLTIII Digital Linear Tape DLT DLT DLT2 DLT3 DLTIIIXT Digital Linear Tape DLT DLT DLT2 DLT3 DLTIV Digital Linear Tape DLT DLT DLT2 DLT3 STK1R 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 STK1U 1 2 inch cartridge cleaning tape HC_CLN HC_CLN HC2_CLN HC3_CLN EECART 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 JLABEL 1 2...

Page 225: ...inch cartridge tape 2 HCART2 HCART HCART2 HCART3 HC_CLN HC2_CLN HC3_CLN DLT DLT2 DLT3 DLT_CLN DLT2_CLN DLT3_CLN LTO_CLNU 1 2 inch cartridge cleaning tape HC_CLN HC_CLN HC2_CLN HC3_CLN UNKNOWN for unknown ACS media types 1 2 inch cartridge tape 2 HCART2 HCART HCART2 HCART3 HC_CLN HC2_CLN HC3_CLN DLT DLT2 DLT3 DLT_CLN DLT2_CLN DLT3_CLN Default and Allowable Media Types for LMF Robots LMF Media Type ...

Page 226: ...dge QCART QCART MP_8MM 8mm cartridge 8MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 AME_8MM 8mm cartridge 8MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 AIT1_8MM 8mm cartridge 8MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 DLT Digital Linear Tape DLT DLT DLT2 DLT3 IBM_MAGSTAR_3590 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 IBM_MAGSTAR_MP 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 STK_DATA_D3 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 CLEANER_CARTRIDGE 1 2 inch cartridge HC_CLN...

Page 227: ...Type Allowable Media Types Through Mappings 3480 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 3490E 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 3590J 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 UNKNOWN for unknown TLH media types 1 2 inch cartridge tape 2 HCART2 HCART HCART2 HCART3 3590K 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 Default and Allowable Media Types for TLM Robots TLM Media Type ...

Page 228: ...upports barcodes OD_THICK NONE OD_THICK is translated to media type REWR_OPT for robot contents reports OD_THICK is ignored for all other robotic inventory operations NONE DECDLT Digital Linear Tape DLT DLT DLT2 DLT3 8MM 8mm cartridge 8MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 4MM 4mm cartridge 4MM 4MM 3590 1 2 inch cartridge HCART HCART HCART2 HCART3 DTF DTF cartridge DTF DTF SONY_AIT 8mm cartridge 8MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 LTO ...

Page 229: ... volume attributes for media ID 800001 are as follows media ID 800001 media type 8MM cartridge tape barcode TL800001 media description tl8 backup volume volume pool NetBackup robot type TL8 Tape Library 8MM volume group EXB220 max mounts allowed 0 unlimited media type DEFAULT volume group NONROB_8MM volume pool DEFAULT media ID 800001 media type 8MM cartridge tape barcode TL800001 media descriptio...

Page 230: ... robotic library that supports barcodes TL8 Note When moving volumes from robot to robot you must do two separate updates as explained in Example 6 Moving Existing Volumes Between Robots on page 203 1 The following are the volume attributes for media ID 800021 which has a readable barcode and already exists as a standalone volume 2 Assume that you insert the volume into a TL8 robot specify the fol...

Page 231: ...0021 are as follows use barcode rules YES selected volume pool NetBackup Barcode Tag Media Type Volume Pool Max Mounts Cleanings Description CLND DLT_CLN None 30 dlt cleaning CLN8 8MM_CLN None 20 8mm cleaning TL8 8MM NetBackup 0 tl8 backup DLT DLT d_pool 200 dlt backup TS 8MM None 0 8mm no pool NONE DEFAULT None 0 no barcode DEFAULT DEFAULT NetBackup 0 other barcodes media ID 800021 media type 8MM...

Page 232: ...e was for a single existing volume that already had a media type Example 3 Moving Existing Volumes Within a Robot The following is an example of moving a volume from one slot to another within the same robot The robot supports barcodes and the volume has a readable barcode Caution For volumes moved within a robotic library use Update volume configuration only if the robotic library supports barcod...

Page 233: ...on the Media Settings tab and then execute the update 3 The resulting volume attributes are media ID 800002 media type 8MM cartridge tape barcode TL800002 media description tl8 backup volume pool NetBackup robot type TL8 Tape Library 8MM robot number 0 robot slot 1 robot host shark volume group EXB220 max mounts allowed 0 unlimited media type DEFAULT volume group EXB220 use barcode rules NO not se...

Page 234: ...lumes with barcodes to a robot that supports barcodes Assume the following The new volume is an 8MM tape with a readable barcode of TL800002 There are no media generation rules defined The drives in the robot all have a drive type of 8MM or there are no drives configured on the robot control host barcode TL800002 media description tl8 backup volume pool NetBackup robot type TL8 Tape Library 8MM ro...

Page 235: ...he new volume are as follows media type DEFAULT volume group EXB2220 use barcode rules YES selected volume pool DEFAULT Barcode Tag Media Type Volume Pool Max Mounts Cleanings Description CLND DLT_CLN None 30 dlt cleaning CLN8 8MM_CLN None 20 8mm cleaning TL8 8MM NetBackup 0 tl8 backup DLT DLT d_pool 200 dlt backup TS 8MM None 0 8mm no pool NONE DEFAULT None 0 no barcode media ID 800002 media type...

Page 236: ...pool NetBackup for data tapes or None for cleaning tapes Max mounts 0 unlimited Note If the robot does not support barcodes or the barcode is unreadable you must specify a Media ID prefix or DEFAULT on the Media Settings tab or Media Manager will not add new media IDs Example 5 Adding Cleaning Tapes to a Robot A special case exists when adding cleaning tapes For example assume you are doing an upd...

Page 237: ... correctly if the following are true The Media type on the Media Settings tab is the regular media DLT in this example The barcode on the volume matches a barcode tag CLN in this example The media type for the barcode rule is the correct cleaning media DLT_CLN in this example To add only cleaning media specify the cleaning media type on the Media Settings tab and in the barcode rule DLT_CLN in thi...

Page 238: ... Insert the volume in robot 2 2 Perform an Update volume configuration on robot 1 This updates the volume attributes to show the volume as standalone 3 Perform an Update volume configuration on robot 2 This updates the configuration to show the volume in robot 2 Example 7 Adding Existing Volumes when Barcodes are Not Used Caution This example is NOT recommended and is included only to illustrate t...

Page 239: ...dia Settings tab and then execute the update 3 The resulting volume attributes are media ID 400021 media type 4MM cartridge tape barcode media description 4MM standalone volume pool None robot type NONE Not Robotic volume group NONROB_4MM max mounts allowed 0 unlimited media type DEFAULT volume group 00_000_TL4 media ID prefix C4 volume pool DEFAULT media ID C40000 media type 4MM cartridge tape ba...

Page 240: ... group and volume pool are according to the Media Settings tab selections The max mounts allowed is set to the default 0 This is an example of a situation where the physical inventory utility should be used See Updating the Volume Configuration for Non Barcoded Media on page 163 Rescanning and Updating Barcodes for a Robot Use the Rescan Update Barcodes command to check the barcodes attached to vo...

Page 241: ...electing a volume and using Actions Move Logically move the volume using an Update volume configuration operation See Updating the Volume Configuration for a Robot on page 160 Physically move the volume into the correct slot to agree with the volume database To obtain an inventory of the robotic library without updating the barcode information in the volume database select Show contents in the Rob...

Page 242: ...Rescanning and Updating Barcodes for a Robot 208 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 243: ...lowing topics Starting the Device Monitor Using the Device Monitor Window Controlling the NetBackup Device Manager Service Monitoring Devices on Other Servers Changing the Operating Mode of a Drive Resetting a Drive Drive Cleaning Functions Adding or Changing a Drive Comment Handling Pending Requests and Pending Actions Resolving Pending Requests Resolving Pending Actions Resubmitting Requests Den...

Page 244: ...panes are initially displayed on the right when you start the Device Monitor A pane showing global device topology A pane showing drive information In addition a third pane for pending requests or pending actions is displayed if there is a pending request or pending action that is active Using the Device Monitor Window The following topics provide an overview of the Device Monitor window Menus and...

Page 245: ... page 228 for details New Console Starts another instance of NetBackup Administration Console New Window from Here Starts another instance of the NetBackup Administration Console node that was active Login as New User Log into NetBackup as a different user without exiting NetBackup This is useful if a NetBackup Administrator wants to log in again as the Security Administrator to administer Access ...

Page 246: ...assign tape drives to requests using Actions Assign Request Up Drive Operator Control Sets the operating mode of the drive to up in operator control mode OPR This mode is normally used only for security reasons Do not use this mode for drives that are being used by NetBackup This command appears on the menu only if it has been enabled To enable this command click View Options Device Monitor and se...

Page 247: ...Server Drive Details Displays a dialog with information about the selected drive including drive properties drive status and robotic library information Assign Request Assigns a drive to a pending request Deny Request Denies a pending request Resubmit Request Resubmits a pending request Display Pending Action Displays information about the pending action Stop Restart Device Manager Service Control...

Page 248: ...og you can reorder the buttons on the current toolbar add buttons or remove toolbar buttons Use Default to reset the buttons on the toolbar Help Help Topics Provides online help information for the NetBackup Console Troubleshooter Helps you to debug errors VERITAS Web Page Displays the VERITAS web page if the host has a browser configured License Keys Provides information about your active and reg...

Page 249: ... the right mouse button in the topology pane Device hosts that are shown cannot be filtered by modifying the Media Manager vm conf file The topology information that is displayed is taken from the Media Manager global device database The following point applies to NetBackup Enterprise Server The topology view may also show multiple NetBackup servers that are sharing the same devices shared drives ...

Page 250: ...or drives The following point applies to NetBackup Enterprise Server The images for shared drives are similar with the shared drive images having a hand at the bottom of the image Robot Volume database robot media Drive Drive that is shared Drive State Indicator Drive Shared Drive NetBackup Enterprise Server Empty Tape loaded Down Reading Writing ...

Page 251: ... a connection to a volume database host Selecting Topology Objects If you use the Show only items in list selected in topology option see Customizing the Window on page 226 and select objects in the topology pane you can filter the contents of the lists in the Drives status pane This action also highlights the connection lines in the topology If you do not use the Show only items in list selected ...

Page 252: ...ve name assigned to the drive during configuration Control Control mode for the drive can be any of the following robot_designation For example TLD The robotic daemon managing the drive has connected to ltid the device daemon and Device Manager service and is running The drive is in the usable state AVR is assumed to be active for the drive as all robotic drives must be in AVR mode not OPR mode Ap...

Page 253: ...needed Applies only to robotic drives AVR The drive is running with automatic volume recognition enabled Applies only to standalone drives OPR The drive is running in a secure mode where operators must manually assign mount requests to the drive avrd is not scanning this drive when in this mode This mode gives operators control over which mount requests can be satisfied Applies only to standalone ...

Page 254: ... to view the drive index for each host that is sharing this drive Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Host Name The name of the device host that has the drive This column contains Shared for shared drives Use Actions Drive Details to view a list of hosts that are sharing this drive Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Type Drive type Use the contents of this column to find a drive t...

Page 255: ...ounted on the drive Recorded Media ID ID recorded on the volume mounted on this drive This identifier is the same as the media ID and should match the external media ID If no volume or a Backup Exec volume is mounted this column is blank External Media ID External ID of the volume mounted on this drive This identifier should match the recorded media ID If no volume is mounted this column is blank ...

Page 256: ...story Shows a graph of relative drive usage The data for the graph is obtained from the Windows performance monitor The graph is shown only if the following are true The drive is connected to a Windows media server or SAN media server A NetBackup job is active the drive is in use The user has permissions to read the Windows registry Performance data collection is enabled select Host Properties Med...

Page 257: ...of the device host that has the pending request User User ID of the person or application making the request Recorded Media ID Media ID of the volume that is detected when the recorded media label was read It should match the media ID that is in the volume database The ID consists of up to six alphanumeric characters that are recorded at the beginning of the volume to identify the volume A volume ...

Page 258: ...wm optical disk write many odiskwo optical disk write once qscsi 1 4 inch cartridge tape Mode Specifies whether the volume should be write enabled W in this column means you must write enable the volume R in this column means you do not have to write enable the volume unless specified by site policy To write enable a cartridge volume move the tab off the safe position Time Time of day the user mad...

Page 259: ...er Indicates if you are connected to the device host you are trying to monitor To show or hide the status bar Click View Status Bar Shortcut Menus and Commands Clicking the right mouse button while the pointer is over a pane or a selection in a pane displays a shortcut menu with commands that apply to that context These shortcut commands are also available on the menus or tool bars Help for the to...

Page 260: ...View menu has options for sorting and changing the layout and appearance of the panes of the Device Monitor window To show or hide columns or rearrange the columns Click View Columns Layout To fit the topology diagram to the pane and ignore the default startup size 1 Click View Options Device Monitor 2 Select Fit topology to window on startup ...

Page 261: ...ary window 2 Use the mouse to select desired objects or portions of objects in the configuration The selected objects will be the focus of the main topology pane allowing you to focus on areas of the topology diagram To size the topology diagram to the size of the current pane Click View Zoom Fit to Window To change the screen display refresh rate The refresh rate specifies how often the Device Mo...

Page 262: ...ck Media and Device Management Device Monitor 2 Click Actions Stop Restart Device Manager Service 3 In the dialog that appears click the arrow to select a different device host The current status field shows the status of this service The dialog allows you to start stop or stop restart the service 4 Select the action you want to perform 5 Click OK or Apply You may find it useful to select Stop and...

Page 263: ...rs do one of the following to specify the server that you want to monitor Enter the name of the server Select a server from the servers shown in the list Click Browse and select a server Login to the current server using a different user name Login to a different server using a different user name You can also click Remove to delete a server from the list 4 Click OK The name of the new server appe...

Page 264: ...ckup to assign it then only the RSM application interface need be updated See the Actions menu in Menus and Commands on page 211 for an explanation of the operating mode commands To change the mode of a drive 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Device Monitor 2 In the Drives status pane select a drive or drives 3 From the Actions menu choose the command for ...

Page 265: ...sult from resetting a drive depend on the original state of the drive as follows Use the reset capability with caution A situation where resetting a drive might be necessary is if a system problem causes the drive to remain assigned after a job is complete In this case the drive cannot be used for another request and the only way to regain control of the drive is to reset it Note Resetting a drive...

Page 266: ... Functions See Drive Cleaning on page 275 for background information on types of drive cleaning and cleaning tapes Note You can also perform drive cleaning functions from the Devices node If you are managing the cleaning frequency from the Devices node ltid must be stopped and restarted for any changes to take effect This action also stops and restarts any robotic processes For the functions avail...

Page 267: ...andalone drive it must contain a cleaning tape and a mount request will be issued Clean Now resets the mount time to zero but the cleaning frequency value remains the same For a shared drive SSO option the dialog contains a list of the hosts that are sharing the selected drive You can choose only one host where Clean Now will apply Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Reset Mount Time Reset...

Page 268: ...pplies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server If the drive is a shared drive SSO option the dialog contains a list of hosts that are sharing the selected drive and the current drive comment for each host You can choose the hosts where a drive comment will apply 5 Enter a comment or change the comment For a shared drive SSO option the dialog contains a list of the hosts that are sharing the selected d...

Page 269: ...236 Pending Requests NetBackup sometimes needs operator assistance to complete a tape mount request for standalone drives or for drives in a robot that are not working indicated by AVR in the Control column of the drive status pane In these cases NetBackup is unable to automatically complete the request and is not certain what is causing the issue since there may be multiple valid explanations for...

Page 270: ... request ID In these cases NetBackup is certain what can be causing the issue and can issue instructions to the operator needed to resolve the action Pending actions must be resolved before proceeding See Resolving Pending Actions on page 239 Note The following figure shows a typical pending action on a Windows server Some columns of the pending requests pane are not shown in this example See the ...

Page 271: ...and not assigned to another request c Select the drive Note This note applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Ensure that the drive and the pending request are on the same host 4 If necessary get the media write enable it and insert it into the drive 5 Wait for the drive to become ready as explained in the vendor s drive equipment manual 6 Click Actions Assign Request Verify that the request i...

Page 272: ...rive status and the pending requests panes Note Some columns of the drive status and pending requests panes are not shown in this example 1 The following pending request is displayed The first task is to find an available tape drive for the request The request specifies a recording density of hcart This means that you need a 1 2 inch cartridge tape drive 2 Check the Drives status pane for an appro...

Page 273: ...will now proceed and the pending request will be removed When the operation is complete NetBackup or the tpunmount command will request Media Manager to release the drive and the drive will be available for other requests Resolving Pending Actions To resolve a pending action 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Device Monitor 2 In the Pending Requests pane se...

Page 274: ...do either of the following actions to resolve the action a Correct the error condition and resubmit the request See Resubmitting Requests on page 240 or b Click Actions Deny Request to deny the request See Denying Requests on page 241 Resubmitting Requests To resubmit a request 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device Management Device Monitor 2 Correct the problem identifi...

Page 275: ...on for a Robot on page 160 for complete instructions 4 Resubmit the request Denying Requests Some situations may require you to deny requests for service for example when drives are not available you cannot find the volume or the user is not authorized to use it Denying a request returns an error message to the user To deny a request 1 In the NetBackup Administration Console click Media and Device...

Page 276: ...Denying Requests 242 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows ...

Page 277: ...ng Drives Drive Cleaning Volume Pools and Volume Groups Barcodes Using the Physical Inventory Utility for Non Barcoded Media Making Changes to Your Hardware Configuration Labeling Media Mounting and Unmounting of Media Suspending Media Or Downing Devices How Media Manager Selects a Drive for a Robotic Mount Request How NetBackup Selects Media in Robots How NetBackup Selects Media in Standalone Dri...

Page 278: ...f the methods you are currently using are being eliminated or going to be eliminated in future releases as well as for information about all new functionality in each release Use the documented methods for terminating the NetBackup Media Manager daemons and services Periodic auditing of backups should be done using the verify command in the NetBackup administrator interface Periodic restores shoul...

Page 279: ...iven MDM Domain Drive Names must be unique within a given MDM Domain and should be descriptive Robot Numbers must be unique within a given MDM Domain Host names should be consistent throughout a MDM Domain That is everywhere within a configuration a host should be referred to with the same name Do not mix fully qualified and unqualified or physical names with virtual host names The MDM Domain serv...

Page 280: ...le running backup or restore jobs Read the NetBackup device configuration guide before configuring devices on media servers or SAN media servers Use only tested robots See the NetBackup hardware compatibility list Use only tested tape drives and tape drivers See the NetBackup hardware compatibility list on the VERITAS support site Use only supported server platforms and hardware See the NetBackup ...

Page 281: ...pplies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server When setting up ACS robot configurations use the following general sequence a Use the device configuration wizard to add all drives as standalone drives on one host b Manually add the ACS robot and update the drives with the correct robot coordinates c Verify the drives using the procedures outlined in the NetBackup device configuration guide d Propagate ...

Page 282: ...ment should be used to test any changes planned for your production system See the recommended best practices for your NetBackup optional software in the guides for these products For example see the NetBackup Vault system administration guide for the best practices for NetBackup Vault NetBackup and Media Manager Databases NetBackup and Media Manager use internal databases to keep information abou...

Page 283: ... the volume from the media catalog NetBackup then sends a request to Media Manager to unassign the volume so it is available for later reassignment NetBackup Catalogs Volumes for backups of the NetBackup catalogs are a special case and do not appear in the media catalog You must track the media IDs for these volumes separately so you can find them in case the media catalog is damaged However they ...

Page 284: ...e commonly used by that class of robots 4 MM and 8 MM are examples of media types The communication methods used by the underlying robotics SCSI based and API robots are the two main methods The following table lists the Media Manager robot types with drive and slot limits for each type Check the Note column for any restrictions Visit the VERITAS support web site to determine which robot type appl...

Page 285: ...their description TLD Tape Library DLT No limit 16000 TLH Tape Library Half inch 256 No limit Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server TLM Tape Library Multimedia 250 No limit Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server TS8 Tape Stacker 8MM 2 21 TSD Tape Stacker DLT 1 14 TSH Tape Stacker Half inch 1 10 Media Manager Robot Types continued Robot Type Description Drive Limits Slot Limits Note Medi...

Page 286: ...3 8MM cartridge tape 3 DLT DLT cartridge tape DLT2 DLT cartridge tape 2 DLT3 DLT cartridge tape 3 DTF DTF cartridge tape REWR_OPT Rewritable optical disk WORM_OPT WORM optical disk HC_CLN 1 2 inch cleaning tape HC2_CLN 1 2 inch cleaning tape 2 HC3_CLN 1 2 inch cleaning tape 3 4MM_CLN 4MM cleaning tape 8MM_CLN 8MM cleaning tape 8MM2_CLN 8MM cleaning tape 2 8MM3_CLN 8MM cleaning tape 3 DLT_CLN DLT c...

Page 287: ...both must be HCART2 Volume TLH Media Type Media Manager Media Type ABC123 3490E HCART ABC156 3490E HCART2 Robot Attributes Media Manager configures and controls a robotic device differently depending on the robot type The following tables list the attributes that dictate how these robot types differ See the NetBackup release notes or visit the VERITAS support web site for more detailed information...

Page 288: ...03 Barcode Support Yes Depends on ACS library software Barcodes must be the same as the media ID 1 to 6 characters Robot Examples STK 97xx STK L180 STK L700 and STK Powderhorn Silo For More Information See the ACS appendix Automated Cartridge System ACS on page 339 LMF Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server LMF robots are not supported NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot Yes SCSI Control No...

Page 289: ...ts Supported UNIX Solaris Barcode Support Yes Depends on LMF software Barcodes must be the same as the media ID 1 to 6 characters Robot Examples Fujitsu F6458 ODL Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control No No Remote Robot Control No No NDMP Support No No Shared Drives Support No No LMF Robot Attributes continued Attri...

Page 290: ...er a slot has media Robot Examples HP Optical Disk Libraries and HP SureStore Optical Libraries For More Information See the NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide RSM Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot Yes Yes SCSI Control No No LAN Control No No Remote Robot Control No No NDMP Support No No Shared Drives Support No No Drive Cleaning Supp...

Page 291: ... Yes if the robot supports barcodes Barcodes must be the same as the media ID 1 to 6 characters Robot Examples Exabyte 210 and Quantum DLTStor For More Information See the RSM appendix Microsoft Removable Storage Manager RSM on page 353 TL4 Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control Not Applicable No Remote Robot Control...

Page 292: ...More Information See the NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide TL8 Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control Not Applicable No Remote Robot Control Not Applicable Yes NDMP Support Yes Yes Shared Drives Support Not Applicable Yes Drive Cleaning Support Yes Yes Media Access Port Support Yes Yes Media Manager ...

Page 293: ...bute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control Not Applicable No Remote Robot Control Not Applicable Yes NDMP Support Yes Yes Shared Drives Support Not Applicable Yes Drive Cleaning Support Yes Yes Media Access Port Support Yes Yes Media Manager Tracks Slots Yes Yes Hosts Supported Windows and UNIX Windows and UNIX Media Type Support DLT DLT2 DLT...

Page 294: ...ckup Enterprise Server API Robot Yes SCSI Control No LAN Control Yes Remote Robot Control Yes NDMP Support Yes Shared Drives Support Yes Drive Cleaning Support No Cleaning is managed by the robotic library Media Access Port Support Yes Media Manager Tracks Slots No Media Type Support HCART HCART2 and HCART3 Hosts Supported Windows and UNIX Barcode Support Yes Depends on IBM ATL software Barcodes m...

Page 295: ...ot Yes SCSI Control No LAN Control Yes Remote Robot Control No Each server that has TLM drives attached has robotic control NDMP Support No Shared Drives Support Yes Drive Cleaning Support Yes Media Access Port Support Yes Media Manager Tracks Slots No Media Type Support 4MM 8MM 8MM2 8MM3 DLT DLT2 DLT3 DTF HCART HCART2 HCART3 REWR_OPT HP9000 800 only and WORM_OPT HP9000 800 only TLH Robot Attribut...

Page 296: ...istributed AML Server DAS Scalar Distributed Library Controller SDLC on page 373 TS8 Robot Attributes Attribute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control Not Applicable No Remote Robot Control Not Applicable No NDMP Support No No Shared Drives Support Not Applicable No Drive Cleaning Support Yes Yes Media Access Port Support No No Media Manager T...

Page 297: ...ibute NetBackup Server NetBackup Enterprise Server API Robot No No SCSI Control Yes Yes LAN Control Not Applicable No Remote Robot Control Not Applicable No NDMP Support Yes Yes Shared Drives Support Not Applicable No Drive Cleaning Support Yes Yes Media Access Port Support No No Media Manager Tracks Slots Yes Yes Media Type Support DLT DLT2 and DLT3 DLT DLT2 and DLT3 Hosts Supported Windows and U...

Page 298: ...ort No No Shared Drives Support Not Applicable No Drive Cleaning Support Yes Yes Media Access Port Support Yes Yes Media Manager Tracks Slots Yes Yes Media Type Support HCART HCART2 and HCART3 Hosts Supported UNIX Not all operating UNIX systems are supported see the NetBackup support web site Barcode Support No but the robot has inventory capability and can report whether a slot has media Robot Ex...

Page 299: ...rom each test utility you can obtain a list of available test commands by entering a question mark The following point applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Use the drstat command to determine the drive addressing parameters for ACS LMF TLH and TLM robot types This command is available in the robotic test utilities for these robot types For most robot types the drive addressing parameter is ...

Page 300: ...unmount tapes or platters If the connection cannot be made or errors exist the process changes to the DOWN state In the DOWN state the process is still running and returns to the UP state when the connection is made or problems no longer exist Process Example This is a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic For example each drive in a Tape Library DLT TLD robot can be attached to a different host and e...

Page 301: ...e host that controls the ACS robotics Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Tape Library DLT TLD tldd tldcd tldd runs on a NetBackup server that has a drive in the Tape Library DLT This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes and sends these requests to the robotic control process tldcd tldcd communicates with the Tape Library DLT robotics through a SC...

Page 302: ...pe Library Half inch TLH tlhd tlhcd tlhd runs on each NetBackup server that has a drive in the Tape Library Half inch This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes and sends these requests to the robotic control process tlhcd runs on the NetBackup server that has the robotic control and communicates with the TLH robotics through a SCSI interface Applies only ...

Page 303: ...hrough Note that if there is no pass through path to access a device the device is not discovered or recognized What is the goal of device discovery The goal is to provide information to enable fully automated or partially automated configuration of peripherals for use with NetBackup Device discovery must be accurate timely and provide coverage for typical NetBackup configurations Device discovery...

Page 304: ...uration of devices These configurations are persistent for robotic libraries and tape or optical drives in device databases on each NetBackup media server or SAN media server These databases have data structures that are managed by the following The NetBackup GUIs Device configuration wizards The tpconfig command An internal API A subset of device configuration information plus extra discovered at...

Page 305: ... all of its devices to be discoverable No Using device discovery and the Device Configuration wizard is the recommended and easiest to use method for creating and updating your device configurations In addition NetBackup supports a varied set of devices that are not currently auto discovered as well as some devices that are currently undiscoverable for example ACS TLM LMF and RSM robots without so...

Page 306: ...host is not a complete solution It allows dynamic loop switching and reduces the number of device accesses and associated CPU time but it does not allow for breakages in device connectivity for example discontinuity in the fibre channel fabric to be detected until the device is actually used for I O Correlating Device Files to Physical Drives When Adding Drives The following two topics may not be ...

Page 307: ...ct robot drive For example assume you have the following drives in a TLD robot and have the device names configured as follows Drive 1 Tape0 Drive 2 Tape1 Drive 3 Tape2 Also assume that in step c you requested that the tape be mounted on Drive 1 If the device name for the drive is correctly configured the Device Monitor shows the tape mounted on Drive 1 Unload and unmount the tape from Drive 1 usi...

Page 308: ...rive based on the SCSI addresses of the drives and adapters Add the device file using your notes from step 3 to complete the correlation between device files and physical drive location 5 Configure the robot and then add the drives When you add the drives check your notes to ensure that you are assigning the correct drive address for example robot drive number to each device path 6 Optionally you ...

Page 309: ...s incorrect Possibly the device paths were swapped during configuration The following point applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server It may be necessary to unload the drive with a command from another host or from the drive s front panel if the true data path to the drive where the tape was mounted is not on the host with direct robotic control Drive Cleaning Available Types of Cleaning Media M...

Page 310: ...leaning on page 277 Requirements for Using TapeAlert with Media Manager To use TapeAlert all of the following conditions must be true No additional configuration is needed VERITAS must support TapeAlert on the device host platform where the drive is connected The drive must support the TapeAlert capability and the TapeAlert must be enabled on the drive To determine if drives support TapeAlert see ...

Page 311: ...commends that you disable library based cleaning when using TapeAlert Frequency Based Cleaning When you add a drive or make changes to a drive you can specify the number of hours cleaning frequency that a drive will be used between drive cleanings Media Manager updates the mount time for the drive each time a tape is unmounted If the following conditions are met drive cleaning occurs when the accu...

Page 312: ...otic control The robotic library software controls the drive cleaning To manage drive cleaning for these robots use the robot vendor interfaces The following applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server Shared drives since there is no single device path where tape mounts can be accurately counted Check the Drive Cleaning Support Attribute of the tables in Robot Attributes on page 253 Managing Frequ...

Page 313: ...ent column of the Drive List in the Devices node of the NetBackup Administration Console The comment field of the output from the tpclean L command To perform an operator initiated cleaning See Managing Frequency Based Cleaning on page 278 Using a Cleaning Tape Note Media Manager has no control over cleaning tapes that are used by library based cleaning You can specify the number of cleanings that...

Page 314: ...h the exception of the NetBackup and DataStore special volume pools you must create a volume pool before you can add volumes to it By default Media Manager creates volume pools named NetBackup and DataStore During initial configuration it is easiest to create all of your volume pools first if you want to use volume pools other than the NetBackup volume pool Then as you add volumes you can assign t...

Page 315: ...r example a robotic library can contain volumes from more than one volume group and you can have more than one standalone volume group All volumes in a group must be in the same robotic library or be standalone That is Media Manager will not let you add a group or part of a group to a robotic library if it already exists in another robotic library Volume Pool and Volume Group Example The following...

Page 316: ...ups also have volumes from more than one pool though the volumes in each group must all be the same type Volume Groups With Multiple Volume Pools It is also possible to configure a scratch pool from which Media Manager can transfer volumes when another volume pool has no media available see Scratch Volume Pools on page 282 Scratch Volume Pools The scratch pool is an optional volume pool that you c...

Page 317: ... requires a DLT volume so Media Manager attempts to assign one from NB_pool_dept_1 in Robot C Robot C has no unassigned volumes available in the NB_pool_dept_1 pool Media Manager searches the scratch pool for an unassigned DLT volume in Robot C If there is an available volume Media Manager moves it to NB_pool_dept_1 and assigns it to NetBackup Otherwise a media unavailable status is logged Scratch...

Page 318: ...lume pools do the following a Create volume pools as required but do not add any volumes to the pools b Define a scratch pool and add all of your volumes to it Media Manager will move volumes to the other pools as they are needed Moving Volumes Common instances when you move volumes are as follows Replacing full volumes in a robotic library When a volume is full and there are no more empty slots i...

Page 319: ...cally move the volume using Inject Eject options The logical part of the move is done when you use Media Manager to move volumes Media Manager updates the volume database to show the volume at the new location The following figure shows an example of replacing a full volume with a new volume Barcodes Reading barcodes on media is a function of the robotic library hardware When a robotic library has...

Page 320: ...etry the scan multiple times degrading performance Barcode Best Practices When selecting barcodes for your volumes consider the following important points Barcodes appear on labels that you attach to the outside of tape volumes Barcodes are not generally used on optical disks and Media Manager does not support barcodes for optical disk libraries ODL robots The maximum barcode lengths that are supp...

Page 321: ...dia ID Generation Rules on page 289 Also recommended is to use barcodes to differentiate between data tapes and cleaning tapes or to differentiate between volume pools Barcode Rules A barcode rule specifies criteria for assigning attributes to new robotic volumes These attributes are assigned by Media Manager using the following The barcode attached to the volume that is read by the robotic librar...

Page 322: ...tributes for the volume Media ID 800001 last six characters of barcode Volume Group 00_000_TS8 Volume Pool t_pool Max Mounts 0 no maximum If a new volume has a barcode of TS000001 Media Manager uses the rule with the barcode tag of TS and assigns the following attributes for the volume Media ID 000001 last six characters of barcode Volume Group 00_000_TS8 Volume Pool None Max Mounts 0 no maximum D...

Page 323: ...Media ID generation rules are saved in the Media Manager configuration file vm conf Using media ID generation rules allows you to override the default media ID naming method used by Media Manager The default naming method uses the last six characters of the barcode to generate the media ID For example two eight character barcodes might be S00006L1 and 000006L1 If you do not specify any media ID ge...

Page 324: ...ontaining non bar coded media only the presence of media in a robotic library slot is obtained This information alone is not sufficient to perform automated media management More information must be obtained For non barcoded media it is necessary to mount the tape read the tape header and determine which tape is in each slot The physical inventory utility vmphyinv performs a physical inventory on ...

Page 325: ...r higher level those drives are not used for mounting media If none of the media servers are at the required level the utility will not be able to perform the inventory operation and an error message is displayed If the master or media server or SAN media server for a robot that is being inventoried is at NetBackup 4 5 FP3 or higher then the volume database host for that robot must also be at 4 5 ...

Page 326: ...of media in the robot with options in vmphyinv Media with unknown media IDs or GUIDs are inserted into the robot For example you insert 10 media from a different tape library in slots 11 to 20 and you do not know the media IDs on the tapes One method to inventory only these 10 media follows a Add volume records to the Media Manager volume database for these slots you can use any media ID in this c...

Page 327: ...dia to be Mounted vmphyinv allows the following choices for specifying the media to be mounted Specify a Media Manager robot number Media Manager volume records must be present when using vmphyinv with this option For example if vmphyinv is called with rn robot_number there must be Media Manager records corresponding to the robot number in the Media Manager volume database for the robot vmphyinv o...

Page 328: ...ese options the Media Manager volume record does not need to be present in the volume database but you must specify the density using the d option when using these options Note For a robot that supports multi media you should carefully specify the density If the wrong density is specified vmphyinv cannot complete the mount and a wrong density can affect the physical drive permanent hardware failur...

Page 329: ...all true vmphyinv will not attempt to mount the media The cleaning media is skipped and the next media in the list will be mounted vmphyinv is not used with the slot range or list options There is cleaning media in the robot The media type is specified as cleaning media in the volume record for example 4mm_clean or dlt_clean If there is cleaning media in the robot and any of the following cases ar...

Page 330: ...the contents of each tape if the media is a catalog tape and so on The media format column of the summary contains NetBackup database for NetBackup catalog tapes This media format summary is written to stderr You can redirect stderr to a file to obtain the media format summary Update Principles vmphyinv updates databases depending on the media type found and based on the following principles This ...

Page 331: ...ed with the GUID and the Description field is updated with the Backup Exec cartridge label read off the tape header The media ID of the Media Manager record added or updated is added to the NetBackup media database if not already present Each record is assigned to NetBackup if not already assigned and its state is set to FROZEN in the NetBackup media database Each NetBackup master or media server ...

Page 332: ...ield is updated with the Storage Migrator cartridge label read off the tape header The volume pool of the unassigned Media Manager records associated with Storage Migrator for Windows media is changed to the StorageMigrator pool If the StorageMigrator pool is not present it is created Note If a MEDIA_ID_PREFIX entry is not specified in the Media Manager configuration file vm conf RS is the default...

Page 333: ... a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic If you replace an existing device in your shared drive configuration with a new device the serial number of the device will likely change This change can lead to a wrong configuration in Media Manager of the global device database and also the local device databases on each server To reconfigure the Media Manager device databases after replacing a device Note T...

Page 334: ...er sharing the new device will replace the serial number in their local databases 5 If the new device is a drive run the device configuration wizard on all servers that are sharing the drive If the new device is a robot run the wizard on the server that is the robot control host and on all servers that are running any version of NetBackup 4 5 Decommissioning a Media Server This is a NetBackup Ente...

Page 335: ...r is the media server that performed the original backups and new_server is the server that will be used for future NetBackup restores see step 2 FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER old_server new_server 4 Use the Media and Device Management GUI to move the tapes that are in robots attached to the old_server to non robotic status standalone Select each robot attached to the old_server highlight all of the ...

Page 336: ...y system where these files are modified Labeling Media You normally do not have to label media For a robotic library you select the media IDs when you configure the media in Media Manager and tape labeling is done automatically when NetBackup uses the media For optical media you have the option of formatting and labeling when you add the media to the robot Or you can do it manually with the Media ...

Page 337: ... the Media Logs report or the All Log Entries report If Media Manager downs a device it is logged in the system log Repeated write failures are usually the cause for setting a volume to the SUSPENDED state or a device to DOWN A volume is also set to SUSPENDED if the write failure occurs in such a way that could make future attempts at positioning unreliable Write failures are frequently caused by ...

Page 338: ...he mount time The first drive in the drive configuration as shown by tpconfig d will be used first then the second drive and so on If the robotic process is stopped and restarted the drive time stamps are all reset The following point applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server When selecting drives among a set of drives and some of the drives are shared SSO option and some are not a non shared dr...

Page 339: ...p cannot find a mounted volume that satisfies all of the conditions in step 1 it checks its media catalog for any volume that is suitable 3 If the media catalog does not have a suitable volume NetBackup requests Media Manager to assign one Also if a volume is at EOM end of media NetBackup will request a new volume This may happen even if the volume if not completely full because NetBackup received...

Page 340: ... Backup Attempts How NetBackup Selects Media in Standalone Drives The section explains media selection and other aspects of standalone drive operations Media Selection Using Standalone Drive Extensions When the standalone drive extensions capability is enabled NetBackup tries to use any labeled or unlabeled media that is in a standalone drive This capability is enabled by default during installati...

Page 341: ...up Media host property check box Enable Standalone Drive Extensions for the server Clearing this property causes NetBackup to use the same method to select media for standalone drives as it uses for robotic drives Spanning Media Media selection following an end of media condition is a special case and depends on whether NetBackup is configured to allow backups to span media as follows NetBackup sp...

Page 342: ...ady State To leave standalone drives in a ready condition after a backup or restore completes use the DO_NOT_EJECT_STANDALONE entry in the vm conf file See The Media Manager Configuration File vm conf on page 320 When NetBackup detects this entry it prevents Media Manager from ejecting the tape after an operation completes The tape is ejected if end of media EOM is reached It is possible for more ...

Page 343: ... terminates the tape with two tape marks and does not write an EH QIC Tape Format For QIC tape media NetBackup does not write empty backup headers EH The format of nonmultiplexed backups is as follows MH BH Image BH Image BH Image To append backup images to QIC media NetBackup positions to the end of data EOD and then starts the next backup Optical Media Format For optical media the format is as f...

Page 344: ...erformance when restoring from images that were migrated by Storage Migrator For example if a 500 megabyte backup is stored in 100 megabyte fragments you can restore a file quicker because Storage Migrator has to retrieve only the specific fragment with the file rather than the entire 500 megabytes Fragmenting tape backups can also speed up restores because NetBackup can skip to the specific fragm...

Page 345: ...Media Manager volume daemon on UNIX and the NetBackup Volume Manager service on Windows Media Manager robotic daemons and services Media Manager security consists of the following levels of security Each successive level listed provides more security These levels are explained in the following topics Media Manager Authentication Authorization on page 312 Media Manager Security Using SERVER Configu...

Page 346: ...rmation on bpauthsync 1M vopied 1M and vopie_util 1M man pages Media Manager Authentication Authorization Media Manager security works in conjunction with the following security components to control access to vmd and robotic functions NetBackup authentication authorization Media Manager server based security Media Manager enhanced authorization incudes robot authorization The following two matric...

Page 347: ... are present Authentication failed Denied Denied Denied Authentication enabled and user is authorized Allowed Allowed Allowed overrides server based security Authentication enabled and user is not authorized Allowed uses server based security Allowed uses server based security Denied Authentication not enabled Allowed Allowed Denied Media Manager Security Matrix AUTHORIZATION_REQUIRED Entry Access...

Page 348: ...of Media Manager server based security level If a host s vm conf file contains any SERVER entries there must also be a SERVER entry for that host or it will not be able to manage its own devices Possible NetBackup and Media Manager Conflicts Media Manager authentication authorization may affect systems where NetBackup authentication authorization has been enabled Connections to media and device ma...

Page 349: ...316 Supported Commands and Daemons The set of Media Manager commands and daemons or services that support enhanced authorization are shown in the following table All other Media Manager commands that manipulate the Media Manager database or configuration files directly are restricted to administrators Review the Note column for any restrictions Commands and Daemons or Services Note Commands and Da...

Page 350: ...can be used by authorized users By default robot authorization is disabled Since the use of reserved ports is only valid for privileged users the Media Manager robot daemons and services no longer require reserved ports Note Connecting to a robotic control daemon using a reserved port is still allowed To enable robot authorization Add an ENABLE_ROBOT_AUTH entry in vm conf on the master server and ...

Page 351: ...rts the robotic test utilities NOTE This utility is not officially supported Starting Services and Processes Command Description Note acsd The Automated Cartridge System robotic process This process is started by ltid Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server avrd The Automatic Volume Recognition process This process is started by ltid ltid Starts the NetBackup Device Manager service Starting lt...

Page 352: ...cess This process is started by ltid Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server tlmd The Tape Library Multimedia process This process is started by ltid Applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server ts8d The Tape Stacker 8MM robotic process This process is started by ltid tsdd The Tape Stacker DLT robotic process This process is started by ltid vmd The NetBackup Volume Manager service This process ...

Page 353: ...luding errors daemon ddmmyy log Contains debug information for the NetBackup Volume Manager service vmd and its associated processes oprd and rdevmi The path is install_path volmgr debug daemon reqlib ddmmyy log Contains debug information on the processes that request vmd The path is install_path volmgr debug reqlib tpcommand ddmmyy log Contains debug information for device configuration Includes ...

Page 354: ... See Example vm conf File on page 338 for an example configuration file ACS Media Mapping ACS_mediatype Media_Manager_mediatype This configuration entry applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server If this entry is specified in vm conf ACS Automated Cartridge System media types are mapped to Media Manager media types This entry is read and interpreted on the host where vmcheckxxx and vmupdate are r...

Page 355: ...vmchange command with the map option or the Vault administrative interface It is not available in the NetBackup graphical administrative interfaces for Media Manager Without this entry present Media Manager assumes that all LSMs are interconnected with pass through ports except for the first and last LSMs the LSMs are interconnected in a line formation robot_num is the robot number ACS_ID and LSM_...

Page 356: ...s where vmd is running If this entry is not specified Media Manager and NetBackup utilities may connect to vmd without specific authorization except in the case when a non matching SERVER entry is present in vm conf Automatically Empty Robot MAP AUTO_UPDATE_ROBOT If this entry is specified in the vm conf file of the media server with a TL8 or TLD robotic control daemon the Media Access Port MAP of...

Page 357: ... seconds Backup Exec Mapping Media Types backup_exec_media_type netbackup_robot_number netbackup_media_type If this entry is specified in vm conf you can map Backup Exec media types to NetBackup media types This entry is used with the Backup Exec tape reader feature and can be used when a NetBackup robot has different drives of a similar type configured This entry is read and interpreted on the ho...

Page 358: ...er If this entry is specified in vm conf you can map robots used in Backup Exec to NetBackup robots This entry is used with the Backup Exec tape reader feature and is required when a robot is not serialized This entry is read and interpreted on the host where bephyinv or beconv is running BE_CHANGER_NAME_name is the Backup Exec changer robot name There cannot be any spaces in this field For exampl...

Page 359: ...operating system determines the non reserved port to use in the following cases You do not specify a CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW entry You specify a value of zero for start Connect to Firewall Options CONNECT_OPTIONS server_name 0 0 0 1 2 You can add this entry in vm conf to specify options that are designed to enhance firewall efficiency with Media Manager Server connection options can be any of the follo...

Page 360: ... dolphin must use vnetd CONNECT_OPTIONS perch 0 0 2 This entry specifies that connections to vmd and robotic daemons on the server named perch must use the daemon s port number DAS Client Name DAS_CLIENT client_name This configuration entry applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server If this entry is specified in vm conf you specify the DAS client name that the TLM robot uses for communications wi...

Page 361: ...on the host where the NetBackup Device Manager service is running With this entry the device configuration will remain unchanged when the NetBackup Device Manager service is started This may result in the device configuration becoming out of sync with the host s view of devices following a reboot Disallow Non NDMP Request on NDMP Drive DISALLOW_NONNDMP_ON_NDMP_DRIVE This entry is read and interpre...

Page 362: ... during a backup This entry is read and interpreted on the host where the standalone drives are defined This entry can be used in a NetBackup environment where it is desirable to keep a standalone drive ready after successful backups are performed The NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD file is also used to control tape ejects in standalone drives Refer to the NetBackup system administrator s guide for Windows s...

Page 363: ...e 361 for more information Media Access Port Default for ACS Robots MAP_ID robot_num map_ID This configuration entry applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server This entry in vm conf sets the Media Manager default for the Media Access Port that may be used for ejecting media from ACS Automated Cartridge System robots This default is highlighted as a choice in the Media Manager and Vault administra...

Page 364: ...BARCODE_CHARS entries are not present in vm conf or you enter an invalid entry Media Manager uses the right most the last six characters of the barcode to create its media ID as the default robot_num is the robot number barcode_length is the length of the barcode A media_ID_rule consists of a maximum of six fields delimited by colons Numbers in the fields of the rule define the positions of the ch...

Page 365: ...prevent other hosts from having their own volume database Preferred Group PREFERRED_GROUP netgroup_name If this entry is specified in vm conf it is used by all callers in Media Manager and NetBackup other than bpgetmedia and bptm for authentication authorization for vmd This entry is read and interpreted by all callers that are connecting to vmd netgroup_name is case sensitive If this entry is spe...

Page 366: ...g volumes Random Port Numbers RANDOM_PORTS YES NO If this entry is specified in vm conf it specifies whether Media Manager chooses port numbers randomly or sequentially when Media Manager requires a port number for communication with Media Manager on other hosts This entry is read and interpreted on hosts where vmd is running If RANDOM_PORTS YES is specified or a RANDOM_PORTS entry is not specifie...

Page 367: ..._INTERFACE entry if present in vm conf 4 Use the same name that NetBackup is using as set in bp conf 5 Use the gethostname name If the REQUIRED_INTERFACE entry is present in vm conf it specifies the network interface that Media Manager uses when connecting to another Media Manager server This entry is read and interpreted on the host where the required interface is needed A Media Manager server ca...

Page 368: ... appendix Microsoft Removable Storage Manager RSM on page 353 for more information Scratch Pool Configuration SCRATCH_POOL pool_name If this entry is specified in vm conf the specified volume pool is configured as the scratch pool This entry is read and interpreted on hosts where vmd is running The scratch pool is a special volume pool from which media is moved as needed into volume pools that hav...

Page 369: ...ction on behalf of other hosts sharing the drives This re registration allows conditions such as a device allocator restart to have minimal impact on use of shared drives The default for the re registration interval is 5 minutes You can use this entry to tune this interval After adding this entry ltid must be stopped and restarted for the change to take effect SSO DA Retry Time SSO_DA_RETRY_TIMEOU...

Page 370: ...up administrators These servers can be configured to never become the scan host for any drive A scan_factor of zero means that a server will not become the scan host Caution A drive is unavailable for use until a scan host can be assigned for it If all hosts that register for a particular drive use scan_factor 0 the drive will enter an unusable state until a host with a scan_factor of non zero reg...

Page 371: ...mupdate are running as part of the robot inventory operation See the appendix IBM Automated Tape Library ATL on page 361 for more information TLM Media Mapping TLM_mediatype Media_Manager_mediatype This configuration entry applies only to NetBackup Enterprise Server If this entry is specified in vm conf DAS SDLC media types in Tape Library Multimedia TLM robots are mapped to Media Manager media ty...

Page 372: ...on the host are started with verbose logging enabled Use this option only if problems occur or if requested by VERITAS support After the problem is resolved remove any debug logs that were created or add a DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS entry Example vm conf File The following is an example of a vm conf file on host yak SERVER yak SERVER whale MEDIA_ID_PREFIX NV MEDIA_ID_PREFIX NETB ACS_3490E HCART2 SCRATCH_PO...

Page 373: ...e following STK products See Sample ACS Configuration on page 340 Automated Cartridge System Library Software ACSLS STK Library Station Storagenet 6000 Storage Domain Manager SN6000 This STK hardware serves as a proxy to another ACS library software component such as ACSLS The term Automated Cartridge System ACS can refer to any of the following A type of Media Manager robotic control The StorageT...

Page 374: ...idge System configuration and explain the major components in this configuration Media Manager NetBackup Master or Media Server or SAN media server Administrative Utility STK acsd IPC Robotics SCSI SCSI Device Drivers STK LibAttach Service Database Library Management Unit LMU Drive Drive Robotic Requests using RPC Drive Data Control Unit CU CAP Library Storage Module LSM ACS Library Software ...

Page 375: ...ed Cartridge System Library Software ACSLS STK Library Station Storagenet 6000 Storage Domain Manager SN6000 Receives robotic requests from Media Manager and uses the Library Management Unit to find and mount or unmount the correct cartridge on requests involving media management On compatible host platforms you may be able to configure ACS library software and Media Manager software on the same h...

Page 376: ...ry software locates the media and sends the necessary information to the Library Management Unit which directs the robotics to mount the media in the drive When the LibAttach service on the Media Manager server receives a successful response from the ACS library software it returns the status to acsd acsd waits for avrd to scan the drive When the drive is ready acsd sends a message to ltid that co...

Page 377: ...for your platform and operating system for details on configuring drives and logical unit numbers The NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide also has information on configuring device files Although device file configuration is essentially the same as for other robot controlled drives you must include the following additional information when defining the drives in Media Manager as rob...

Page 378: ...steps require just 20 device paths to be manually configured instead of 600 device paths During the setup phase the wizard will attempt to discover the tape drives available and for the robot types where serialization is available the positions of the drives within the library This wizard does not obtain drive serial numbers from the ACS robotic library control interface so some manual configurati...

Page 379: ...possibility of errors If you are experiencing errors you can manually define the tape drive configuration by using the NetBackup Administration Console or the command line Care must be taken to avoid any errors With shared drives the device paths must be correct for each server Also ensure that the drives are defined correctly to avoid errors where drives are defined to be in ACS index number 9 in...

Page 380: ...s the same for each host on that port In this type of configuration the drives should be configured as shared drives in the NetBackup device configuration Hosts Connected To Different Ports If each host is connected to a different port each host will have its own set of logical drives and the drives should not be configured as shared drives in the NetBackup device configuration With this type of c...

Page 381: ...tware which uses the barcodes for volume IDs The ACS library software also records the location of the tape within the robot 2 Define the media for Media Manager using the ACS volume IDs as media IDs Do one of the following to define the media Update the volume configuration as explained in Updating the Volume Configuration for a Robot on page 160 Add new volumes as explained in Adding New Volumes...

Page 382: ...ror such as Misplaced Tape It does not matter however if you move media from one location to another within the robot The ACS library software will find the requested media if its database is current Removing Volumes Using Media Manager You can remove volumes using one of the following methods Either of these methods performs the logical move and the physical move Use the NetBackup Administration ...

Page 383: ...1 and the barcode for that media ID is also 100011 4 If the operation does not require updating the volume configuration Media Manager uses the media type defaults for ACS robots when it creates its report Example Show Contents Reports for API Robots on page 156 shows an example of this report 5 If the operation requires updating the volume configuration Media Manager maps the ACS media types to t...

Page 384: ...nts This matches other types of Media Manager robotic control and accommodates configurations involving SCSI multiplexors Loaded tapes are not forcibly ejected when a dismount operation occurs ACS Robotic Test Utility acstest acstest allows you to verify ACS communications and provides a remote system administrative interface to an ACS robot It can also be used to query enter eject mount unload an...

Page 385: ...he ACS scratch pool ACS library software moves volumes out of the scratch pool after they have been mounted Therefore a partial inventory also includes those volumes in the Media Manager volume database which Media Manager can validate exist in the robotic library whether or not the volumes are in the ACS scratch pool This complete list of volumes that exist in the robotic library is returned to p...

Page 386: ...cs_scratch_pool1 is the scratch pool ID as configured in ACS library software acs_scratch_pool2 is a second scratch pool ID up to 10 scratch pools are allowed The following entry causes ACS robot number 0 to query scratch volumes from STK pool IDs 4 5 and 6 INVENTORY_FILTER ACS 0 BY_ACS_POOL 4 5 6 ...

Page 387: ...e supported drives list on the VERITAS support web site Many of these devices vary in their support of features like barcodes and tape cleaning tape cleaning is supported using the RSM application see The Microsoft RSM Interface on page 354 Microsoft RSM Libraries represent physical layouts of the system for example robots and drives and RSM Media Pools represent a logical layout of RSM media Medi...

Page 388: ...strative Tools Media Requests Involving an RSM Robot A request for media in an RSM robot begins in the same manner as other media requests The NetBackup Device Manager service ltid receives the request and queries the NetBackup Volume Manager service vmd for the location of the media vmd in this case returns only the robot number and the type RSM for the robot Since Microsoft RSM manages the media...

Page 389: ...er 123 of type RSM to configuration Configuring RSM Drives in Media Manager Before configuring any device make sure that the Removable Storage service is aware of your device by using the Removable Storage Manager application see The Microsoft RSM Interface on page 354 Also in order to configure an RSM drive first configure the corresponding robot and be sure to specify this robot when configuring...

Page 390: ...the arrow to the right of the Device Host box allows you to select a device host The Current Status box shows the status of this host 3 Start the NetBackup Device Manager service using Stop Restart Device Manager Service Adding Volumes Because the devices and media are directly managed by Microsoft RSM RSM keeps track of volumes using its own database To add volumes 1 Use the Microsoft RSM applica...

Page 391: ...ist within the RSM NetBackup Media Pool for that robot Define the volumes for Media Manager using one of the following procedures Update the volume configuration as explained in Updating the Volume Configuration for a Robot on page 160 Add new volumes as explained in Adding New Volumes on page 116 Update the configuration when media has been moved or may have moved residences see Removing Volumes ...

Page 392: ...ns what occurs when you select an operation that requires a robotic inventory for an RSM robot 1 Media Manager requests volume information from the Removable Storage service 2 The Removable Storage service responds by providing a list of media names and associated information from its database Media Manager then displays a list of volumes obtained from the service along with their RSM and Media Ma...

Page 393: ...volume configuration Media Manager maps the RSM media types to the Media Manager media types as explained in Media Type Mappings Tab Advanced Options on page 187 The Update Volume Configuration report for an RSM robot is similar to the figure shown for an API robot in Procedure To Update the Volume Configuration on page 163 ...

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Page 395: ...obotic support for ATL robots is classified as Tape Library Half inch TLH and these robots are also API robots the robot manages its own media Support for these devices is different than for other types of Media Manager robotic control This appendix provides an overview of those differences Sample TLH Configurations The following figures and accompanying table show two possible ATL configurations ...

Page 396: ...TL Drives Inventory Requests Media Manager Robotic Requests tlhd tlhcd SCSI Tape Device Driver Library Manager PC IBM IBM Automated Tape Library ATL Media Manager Server This server can be a NetBackup master or media server or SAN media server 003590B1A0 003590B1A0 Automated Tape Library API IBM Service Automated Tape Library ...

Page 397: ...erver A can be any NetBackup master or media server or SAN media server IBM Automated Tape Library ATL Library Manager PC Media Manager Server B Media Manager Server A Tape Device Driver Tape Device Driver Server B can be any NetBackup Windows NT Intel master server or media server or SAN media server and is the robot control host 003590B1A0 003590B1A0 IBM API IBM Service Automated Tape Library Au...

Page 398: ... software installed and acts as a client to the Automated Tape Library through the IBM ATL service The Netbackup Device Manager service forwards mount and dismount requests to the Tape Library Half inch service tlhd Tape Library Half inch process tlhd This process resides on a Media Manager server and passes mount and dismount requests to the Tape Library Half inch control process tlhcd on the rob...

Page 399: ...ring the IBM components of the Automated Tape Library see the IBM SCSI Tape Drive Medium Changer and Library Device Drivers Installation and User s Guide or any related publications For information on platform support for TLH robotic control see the NetBackup release notes and the VERITAS support web site http www support veritas com You are using a recommended firmware version for the Automated T...

Page 400: ... command verifies communications with the library mtlib l 3494AH qL The following is the output from this command Library Data operational state Automated Operational State Dual Write Disabled functional state 000 input stations 1 output stations 1 input output status ALL input stations empty ALL output stations empty machine type 3494 sequence number 11398 number of cells 141 available cells 129 ...

Page 401: ...VE2 tape0 hcart No UP TLH 0 IBM Device Number 156700 1 DRIVE1 tape1 dlt No UP TLD 5 Definition DRIVE 1 Currently defined robotics are TLH 0 library name 3494AH volume database host grozer TLD 5 SCSI port 3 bus 1 target 6 lun 0 volume database host grozer Standalone drive volume database host grozer In this example note the following line TLH 0 library name 3494AH volume database host grozer Where ...

Page 402: ... Opening 3494AH Enter tlh commands returns help information drstat Drive information device name 003590B1A00 device number 0x156700 device class 0x10 3590 device category 0x0000 mounted volser none mounted category 0x0000 device states Device installed in ATL Dev is available to ATL ACL is installed Drive information device name 003590B1A01 device number 0x156600 device class 0x10 3590 device cate...

Page 403: ...L volume IDs and barcodes are the same Media Manager has the barcodes for the media Notice that you do not enter slot location because that information is kept by the ATL software 3 Use Show Contents and Compare Contents with Volume Configuration from the Robot Inventory dialog of the Media node to verify your configuration Removing Volumes To remove volumes 1 Physically remove the media from the ...

Page 404: ...hat occurs when you select an operation that requires a robotic inventory for a TLH robot 1 Media Manager requests volume information from the Library Manager through the Library Manager Control Point IBM service 2 The Library Manager responds by providing a list of volume IDs and volume attributes from its database Media Manager then filters out volume categories that cannot be used and displays ...

Page 405: ...in Procedure To Update the Volume Configuration on page 163 Robotic Inventory Filtering If your site has many volumes configured but you only want NetBackup to use a subset of them you may be able to use inventory filtering The IBM Library Manager maintains the concept of a volume category which can be used to classify volumes into pools including pools by application On the Media Manager server w...

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Page 407: ...se robots is classified as Tape Library Multimedia TLM and these robots are also API robots the robot manages its own media Support for these devices is different than for other types of Media Manager robotic control and this appendix provides an overview of those differences Sample TLM Configuration The following figure and accompanying table show a possible configuration and explain the major co...

Page 408: ... mount the media in the drive When the host where Media Manager is installed receives a success response from the DAS SDLC server it allows the requesting application for example NetBackup to start sending data to the drive Component Description Media Manager Server A host that has Media Manager software and acts as a client to the DAS SDLC server Netbackup Device Manager service forwards mount an...

Page 409: ... the ADIC installation and administration guides For information on platform support for TLM robotic control see the NetBackup release notes Allocating TLM Drives to Media Manager Before configuring drives in Media Manager you must configure the DAS SDLC server to allocate the desired drives to a specific DAS SDLC client Media Manager server The following are some topics pertaining this configurat...

Page 410: ...t to use for the DAS client name in the configuration on the DAS SDLC server However if this name happens to be one that is invalid for DAS SDLC clients you will have to use another name For example DAS 1 30C1 has a restriction on having hyphens in DAS client names If the host name where Media Manager is installed happens to have a name such as dolphin 2 the DAS SDLC server will not recognize it A...

Page 411: ...drives by using a DAS administrative interface LD_LIBRARY_PATH usr local aci lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH DAS_SERVER dasos2box export DAS_SERVER DAS_CLIENT grouse export DAS_CLIENT cd usr local aci admin dasadmin listd The following is output from this command listd for client successful drive DN1 amu drive 01 st UP type N sysid client grouse volser cleaning 0 clean_count 17 drive DN2 amu drive 02 s...

Page 412: ...O clean_count 17 Drive 2 name DE3 amu_name 03 state UP type E client grouse volser cleaning NO clean_count 480 Drive 3 name DE4 amu_name 04 state UP type E client grouse volser cleaning NO clean_count 378 DRIVE STATUS complete This output indicates that DAS SDLC drive names DN1 DE3 and DE4 should be used It also shows that grouse is the client name that is being used for the Media Manager server C...

Page 413: ... DAS client name such as the following DAS_CLIENT NetBackupShared 5 Test the DAS configuration using robtest and tlmtest Set the client name use client NetBackupshared in tlmtest and run the drive status command drstat On Windows clients media servers the client name is obtained from the DAS_CLIENT environment variable so the client command is not needed in tlmtest Configuring the ADIC SDLC Server...

Page 414: ...procedure can significantly reduce the amount of manual configuration required in an SSO environment For example if you have 20 drives shared on 30 hosts these configuration steps require just 20 device paths to be manually configured instead of 600 device paths During the setup phase the wizard will attempt to discover the tape drives available and for the robot types where serialization is avail...

Page 415: ...ccess to the same sets of volumes volsers in the DAS SDLC configuration Otherwise when you perform an update volume configuration from one of the servers the volumes that are not configured for that server will be logically moved to a standalone residence As a test you can inventory a TLM robot from each Media Manager server and compare the results If all the inventory reports are not the same cor...

Page 416: ...he following A DAS SDLC administrative interface The eject command in the Media Manager tlmtest utility The NetBackup Administration Console see Methods for Ejecting Volumes From a Robot on page 113 The vmchange command see the NetBackup commands for Windows reference 2 If you are using the vmchange command or the NetBackup Administration Console see step 1 you can skip this step Update the Media ...

Page 417: ...ined along with their media types according to the DAS SDLC server The following table indicates an example of information displayed by Media Manager 3 Media Manager translates the volsers directly into media IDs and barcodes In the previous table volser A00250 becomes media ID A00250 and the barcode for that media ID is also A00250 4 If the operation does not require updating the volume configura...

Page 418: ...4 NetBackup Media Manager System Administrator s Guide for Windows The Update Volume Configuration report for an TLM robot is similar to the figure shown for an API robot in Procedure To Update the Volume Configuration on page 163 ...

Page 419: ... AMU see Archive Management Unit API robots 2 133 164 187 287 339 353 361 373 API_BARCODE_RULES vm conf entry 321 Archive Management Unit AMU 374 assigned host drive status 221 volumes 140 assigning tape requests 237 ATL see Automated Tape Library authentication authorization 38 311 AUTHORIZATION_REQUIRED vm conf entry 322 auto cleaning 275 AUTO_UPDATE_ROBOT vm conf entry 322 Automated Cartridge S...

Page 420: ...ots 17 examples drives and robots 78 media 116 STK SN6000 drives 346 TLM drives 375 CONNECT_OPTIONS vm conf entry 325 control mode drive 218 control path robotic 53 control unit ACS 341 create media ID generation rules 164 customize Device Monitor window 226 Devices window 32 Media window 103 D DAS see Distributed AML Server DAS drive name 26 DAS_CLIENT vm conf entry 326 376 DASADMIN command 377 3...

Page 421: ... type 60 types and densities 220 virtualization 345 volume header device 62 drive cleaning for TLH robots 368 managing 278 manual 279 Media and Device Management menu 70 232 operator initiated 279 Drives List Devices window 25 Drives status list Assigned Host field 221 Comment field 222 Control field 218 Device Monitor window 218 Drive Index field 220 222 Drive Name field 218 External Media ID fie...

Page 422: ...y 328 K key Media Manager terms 1 L label media tapes 118 new media 137 launch SANPoint Control 21 75 213 Library Management Unit 341 library sharing 51 354 Library Storage Module 341 library based cleaning 277 license keys 346 LMU see Library Management Unit long erase 92 140 LSM see Library Storage Module M making advanced configuration changes 299 MAP_ID vm conf entry 329 mapping Backup Exec me...

Page 423: ...ultiplexing MPX tape format 310 N naming conventions 34 103 227 NDMP hosts 41 43 NetBackup authentication 311 authorization 311 pool 95 99 volume pool 111 wizards 12 NetBackup Access Management 19 91 211 NetBackup Administration Console 12 NetBackup and Media Manager databases 248 NetBackup catalogs 249 NetBackup Enterprise Server functionality 105 229 NetBackup Server functionality 105 229 no rew...

Page 424: ... 358 robot types 48 remove a server from a configuration 300 replace media 146 replacing a device in a SSO configuration 299 requests assigning 237 denying 241 display pending 235 example assignment 238 identification number drive status 222 pending requests 223 overview 235 resubmitting 240 REQUIRED_INTERFACE vm conf entry 333 reset drive 231 mount time 71 233 residence for move volumes 130 updat...

Page 425: ...rive comment 234 drive operating mode 230 233 234 license key 346 RSM robot types 354 vm conf entries 335 336 SSO_DA_REREGISTER_INTERVAL vm conf entry 335 SSO_DA_RETRY_TIMEOUT vm conf entry 335 SSO_HOST_NAME vm conf entry 335 SSO_SCAN_ABILITY vm conf entry 219 336 standalone drive add drive 63 standalone extensions disabling 307 volume database host 69 status drive initial configuration 59 stop re...

Page 426: ...entries 320 adding SERVER entries 37 ADJ_LSM entries 320 API_BARCODE_RULES entries 321 AUTHORIZATION_REQUIRED entries 322 AUTO_UPDATE_ROBOTentries 322 AVRD_PEND_DELAY entries 323 AVRD_SCAN_DELAY entries 322 CLEAN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT entries 324 CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW entries 325 CLUSTER_NAME entries 333 CONNECT_OPTIONS entries 325 DAS_CLIENT entries 326 376 DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS entries 326 DEVICE_HOST entrie...

Page 427: ...282 DataStore pool 95 deleting 111 for update robot 177 host name 107 109 HSM pool 95 NetBackup pool 95 99 overview 106 280 Volume Pools list Media window 95 volumes adding see adding assigned 140 changing see changing cleaning count 145 deleting see deleting description for new volume 123 first time mounted 100 for move volume 131 header device 62 maximum mounts allowed 124 media ID style 123 mov...

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