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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Managing tape drives
  6. Viewing drive details
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Viewing drive details

You can obtain detailed information about drives (or shared drives), such as drive cleaning, drive properties, drive status, host, and robotic library information.

Use the following procedure to view the drive details.

To view the drive details

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, select Media and Device Management > Device Monitor.
  2. If you licensed a disk pool feature, select the Drives tab.
  3. In the Drive Status pane, select a drive.
  4. Select Actions > Drive Details.
  5. If you use the Shared drive for shared drives, you can view the drive control mode and drive index for each host that shares a drive. You also can view a list of hosts that share a drive.

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