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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
  6. About robot control
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About robot control

When you add a robot to NetBackup manually, you must configure how the robot is controlled. The New Robot dialog box includes a section named Robot control, in which you configure the control options.

The following table lists the information that is required to configure the three robot control types (local, NDMP, and remote). The information that is required depends on the robot type and the media server type.

Table: Robot control information

Robot type

Media server type

Robot control

Information required for configuration

ACS

Windows, Solaris SPARC, and Linux (except Linux64)

NDMP

NDMP host name and robot device

ACS

All

Remote

ACSLS host

TL4

UNIX

Local

Robotic device file

TL4

Windows

Local

Robot device or SCSI coordinates

TL8

UNIX

Local

Robotic device file

TL8

Windows

Local

Robot device or SCSI coordinates

TL8

Windows, Solaris SPARC, and Linux (except Linux64)

NDMP

NDMP host name and robot device

TL8

All

Remote

Robot control host

TLD

UNIX

Local

Robotic device file

TLD

Windows

Local

Robot device or SCSI coordinates

TLD

Windows, Solaris SPARC, and Linux (except Linux64)

NDMP

NDMP host name and robot device

TLD

All

Remote

Robot control host

TLH

All (except Solaris Opteron, HP IA64, Linux, and Linux64)

Local

Library name

TLH

Windows, Solaris SPARC, and Linux (except Linux64)

NDMP

NDMP host name and robot device

TLH

All (except Solaris Opteron, Linux64)

Remote

Robot control host

TLM

All (except Linux64 and HP IA64)

Remote

DAS/SDLC server

More Information

Robot control (robot configuration options)

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