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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 Device Monitor
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About the Device Monitor

Use the NetBackup Administration Console Device Monitor to manage your tape drives, disk pools, and service requests for operators, as follows:

Media mounts

See About media mount errors.

Pending requests and actions

See About pending requests and actions.

See About pending requests for storage units.

See Resubmitting a request.

See Resolving a pending action.

See Denying a request.

Tape drives

See Denying a request.

Disk pools

See Changing OpenStorage disk pool state.

More information about disk pools is available in the NetBackup guide for your disk storage option:

  • The NetBackup AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide.

  • The NetBackup Cloud Administrator's Guide.

  • The NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

  • The NetBackup OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk.

  • The NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide.

More Information

Changing a drive comment

About downed drives

Changing a drive operating mode

Cleaning a tape drive from the Device Monitor

Resetting a drive

Resetting the mount time of a drive

Setting the drive cleaning frequency

Viewing drive details

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