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  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
  6. Robot configuration options
  7. Robot control (robot configuration options)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Robot control (robot configuration options)

The Robot control section of the dialog box specifies the type of control for the robot. The options that you configure depend on the robot type and the media server type.

Table: Robot configuration properties

Property

Description

Robot control is attached to an NDMP host

Specifies that an NDMP host controls the robot.

You must configure other options (depending on the robot type and device host type).

Robot is controlled locally by this device host

Specifies that the host to which the robot is attached controls the robot.

You must configure other options (depending on the robot type and device host type).

Robot control is handled by a remote host

Specifies that a host other than the device host controls the robot.

You must configure other options (based on the selected robot type and device host platform).

ACSLS host

Specifies the name of the Sun StorageTek ACSLS host; the ACS library software resides ACSLS host. On some UNIX server platforms, this host can also be a media server.

The ACS library software component can be any of the following:

  • Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS)

    Examples are available in the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide, available at the following URL:

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

  • 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).

Note:

If the device host that has drives under ACS robotic control is a Windows server, STK LibAttach software must also be installed. Obtain the appropriate LibAttach software from STK.

For compatibility information, see the Hardware Compatibility List:

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

An overview of ACS robots is available in the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Library name

The following applies only to a TLH robot:

For UNIX device hosts, specifies the library name that is configured on the UNIX host.

For Windows devices hosts, do the following:

  • Determine the library name by viewing the C:\winnt\ibmatl.conf file.

    For example, in the following example entry in that file, 3494AH is the library name:

    3494AH 176.123.154.141 ibmpc1

  • Enter the library name.

An overview of TLH robots is available in the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide. See the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

LMCP device file

Specifies the name of the Library Manager Control Point device file name for TLH robot types. Use the same name that is configured on the AIX device host.

NDMP host name

Specifies the name of the NDMP host to which the robot is attached.

Robot control host

Specifies the host that controls the robot.

The name of the host on which the robot information is defined for TL8, TLD, or TLH robots.

Robot device

The following applies to a Windows device host only. Specifies the name of the robot device.

Click Browse and then select a robot from the list that appears in the Devices dialog box.

If the discovery operation fails to discover a robot, click More in the Devices dialog box. Enter either the Port, Bus, Target, and LUN numbers or the device name in the next dialog box. If the browse operation fails for any other reason, a dialog box appears that lets you enter the information.

Use the Windows management tools to find the Port, Bus, Target, and LUN numbers.

If the browse operation does not find attached robots, an error dialog box appears.

Robotic device file

UNIX device host only. Specifies the device file that is used for SCSI connections. The device files are located in the /dev directory tree on the device host.

To specify the robotic device file, click Browse and then select a robotic device file from the list that appears in the Devices dialog box.

If the browse operation fails to show all of the attached robots, click More. Enter the path of the device file in the robotic device file field.

If the browse operation fails to show all of the attached robots, click Other Device. Enter the path of the device file in the next dialog box.

If the browse operation does not find attached robots, an error dialog box appears.

Information about how to add device files is available in the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide. See the NetBackup Device Configuration Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Robot device path

NDMP host only. Specifies the name of the robotic device that is attached to the NDMP host.

Port, Bus, Target, LUN

Windows hosts only. The Port, Bus, Target, and LUN are the SCSI coordinates for the robotic device. To specify the SCSI coordinates of the device, enter the Port, Bus, Target, and LUN.

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