Data Protector device discovery with advanced
path failover
When using the Data Protector Autoconfigure functionality, Data Protector will discover both active and
passive control and data paths to the library robot control and drive paths respectively. Data Protector will
associate all active data paths with the active control path, and can be identified by the library in the list
that includes the selection box. All other listed libraries will correspond to passive control paths. All active
data paths will be listed in the collapsed tree under the active control path. The following example, Data
Protector Autoconfigure discovery result, shows an ESL G3 library with 6 LTO-6 drives and the active
control and data paths associated under the library.
When configuring devices manually, Data Protector will also find all active and passive device paths for
robot and drive. Data Protector recognizes the paths correctly and marks all passive paths with a red ‘x’
and the active path with a green ‘check’. To verify Data Protector has discovered the active paths
correctly, the Advance Failover Diagnostic tool can be used to cross reference all paths and symbolic
driver names. The following example shows the Diagnostic tool display of the above library and 6 LTO
drives and their associated paths:
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Data Protector device discovery with advanced path failover
