VERITAS NetBackupTM 5.0, User Manual And Product Specifications

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Appendix E, ADIC Distributed AML Server (DAS) / Scalar Distributed Library Controller
(SDLC)
Configuring Shared TLM Drives
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In this example, the client name is set to NetBackupShared, but can be any name without
special characters.
1.
Modify the DAS server’s
\ETC\CONFIG
file to create a shared client entry.
client client_name = NetBackupShared
# ip address = 000.000.000.000
hostname = any
2. Place the IP addresses of all media servers that will use the shared client entry in the
\MPTN\ETC\HOSTS
file on the DAS server.
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx server_1
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy server_2
3. Using the DASADMIN interface, choose UP for the drives that you want to allocate to
the shared client (NetBackupShared).
4. On each of the media servers that are sharing the drives, create an entry in the
vm.conf
file with the shared 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
Using TLM robots with SSO requires that the ADIC SDLC server be configured to allow
drives to be allocated simultaneously to all NetBackup media servers that are sharing the
drives (to ADIC software, these servers are considered to be clients). SDLC software
version 2.3 or higher is needed.
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To configure the SDLC server
In this example, the client name for the shared client is set to NetBackupShared, but can be
any name without special characters.
1. Start the SDLC console and choose Configuration > Clients.
Set the Value of Name to NetBackupShared.
Set the Value of Client Host Name to any.