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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup in a Veritas Cluster Server on Windows
  4. About NetBackup agent for VCS on Windows
Veritas NetBackup™ Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide

About NetBackup agent for VCS on Windows

The NetBackup agent for VCS monitors specific NetBackup resources, determines the status of these resources, and starts or stops NetBackup according to external events. The agent includes VCS type declarations and agent executables. The NetBackup resource type represents the agent. When the agent detects an application failure, the NetBackup service group is failed over to another system in the cluster. NetBackup is installed and configured on this stem.

The following table describes the specific agent operations.

Online

Brings the NetBackup services online.

Offline

Takes the NetBackup services offline.

Monitor

Verifies the status of NetBackup services. Detailed monitoring is also available.

Clean

Stops all NetBackup daemons if there is a detection of an unexpected offline operation or an ineffective online operation.

Additional monitoring capabilities are available for add-on products.

NetBackup supports the use of the Global Cluster Option (GCO) with VCS. For information on how to configure and use GCO with NetBackup, refer to the NetBackup in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

More Information

Setting up a detailed monitoring script for the NetBackup server on VCS on Windows

Configuring add-ons for monitoring (Windows)

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