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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Monitoring NetBackup activity
  5. About the Daemons tab
  6. Starting or stopping a daemon
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Starting or stopping a daemon

The following procedure describes how to start or stop a NetBackup daemon.

To start or stop a NetBackup daemon

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, select Activity Monitor.
  2. Select the Daemons tab.
  3. Select the daemon(s) that you want to start or stop.
  4. Select Actions > Stop Selected or Actions > Start Selected.

    Or, select Actions > Start Daemon or Actions > Stop Daemon.

To start or stop daemons requires the necessary user permissions on the system where the daemon runs.

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