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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Inventorying robots
  5. About showing a robot's contents
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About showing a robot's contents

Show contents inventories the selected robotic library and generates a report. This operation does not check or change the EMM database. Use this option to determine the contents of a robot.

The contents that appear depend on the robot type.

The following table describes the report contents.

Note:

On UNIX: If a volume is mounted in a drive, the inventory report lists the slot from which the volume was moved to the drive.

Table: Show contents description

Robot and media

Report contents

The robot has a barcode reader and the robot contains media with barcodes.

Shows if each slot has media and lists the barcode for the media.

The robot does not have a barcode reader or the robot contains media without barcodes.

Shows if each slot has media.

API robot.

Shows a list of the volumes in the robot.

See About inventory results for API robots.

The following figure shows an example of the report.

Figure: Show contents report

Show contents report

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Showing the media in a robot

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