Verifying your Shared Storage Option configuration

In a Shared Storage Option configuration, a shared drive must have the same logical name (drive name) on all of the NetBackup media servers. If the drive resides in a robotic library, it also must use the same drive number in the library. This section describes some tools you can use to verify your configuration.

How you verify that your configuration is set up correctly depends on your devices and how you configured Shared Storage Option, as follows:

If you have serialized devices, Veritas recommends that you use the Device Configuration Wizard. The wizard verifies your configuration.
If you have non-serialized devices, see the Veritas support site for tech note TECH31764, "Verifying a Shared Storage Option (SSO) Configuration with Non-Serialized Devices. It describes how to verify your configuration.
If you have serialized devices but you did not use the Device Configuration Wizard, use the following procedure to verify your configuration.

The verification procedures use the following NetBackup commands:

On Windows:

install_path\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin\scan
install_path\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin\tpconfig

On UNIX/Linux:

usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan
usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig

In the following example the ADIC robotic library has six drives, but only drives 5 and 6 are configured on this particular host.

Perform the verification on all of the NetBackup servers in your configuration. Ensure that each shared drive has the same logical drive name and same drive number ID on each media server that shares the drive.

To verify a manually-configured Shared Storage Option configuration

Execute tpconfig -d or tpconfig -dl. For NDMP devices, use tpautoconf -probe -ndmp_host_name host_list.

The output from tpconfig shows the logical names NetBackup assigns to tape drives. The following example shows drive number 5 is named QUANTUM.DLT7000.000 and drive number 6 is named QUANTUM.DLT7000.001:

Id    DriveName            Type    Residence 
        Drive Path                                         Status
*************************************************************** 
 0    QUANTUM.DLT7000.000  dlt     TLD(0) DRIVE=5 
         /dev/st/nh3c0t5l0                                  UP 
 1    QUANTUM.DLT.7000.001 dlt     TLD(0) DRIVE=6 
        /dev/st/nh3c0t1l0                                   UP
Currently defined robotics are: 
  TLD(0)     robotic path = /dev/sg/h3c0t0l0
EMM server = norway

Execute the scan command. The scan output shows the robot and the drive properties.

The following is example output:

*************************************************************
********************** SDT_TAPE    **************************
********************** SDT_CHANGER **************************
*************************************************************
Device Name  : "/dev/sg/h3c0t0l0"
Passthru Name: "/dev/sg/h3c0t0l0"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry    : "ADIC Scalar 100 3.10"
Vendor ID  : "ADIC "
Product ID : "Scalar 100 "
Product Rev: "3.10"
Serial Number: "ADIC009K0340314"
WWN          : "" 
WWN Id Type  : 0        
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type : SDT_CHANGER
NetBackup Robot Type: 6
Removable : Yes        
Device Supports: SCSI-2
Number of Drives : 6   
Number of Slots  : 50   
Number of Media Access Ports: 10
Drive 1 Serial Number      : "PXB03S0979"
Drive 2 Serial Number      : "PXB03S0913"
Drive 3 Serial Number      : "CXA04S2051"
Drive 4 Serial Number      : "PXA31S1787"
Drive 5 Serial Number      : "PXA37S3261"
Drive 6 Serial Number      : "PXA50S2276"
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0
------------------------------------------------------------
Device Name  : "/dev/st/nh3c0t5l0"
Passthru Name: "/dev/sg/h3c0t5l0"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry    : "QUANTUM DLT7000            2561"
Vendor ID  : "QUANTUM "
Product ID : "DLT7000          "
Product Rev: "2561"
Serial Number: "PXA37S3261"
WWN          : ""
WWN Id Type  : 0
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type    : SDT_TAPE
NetBackup Drive Type: 9
Removable      : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-2
Flags : 0x4
Reason: 0x0
------------------------------------------------------------
Device Name  : "/dev/st/nh3c0t1l0"
Passthru Name: "/dev/sg/h3c0t1l0"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry    : "QUANTUM DLT7000             296B"
Vendor ID  : "QUANTUM "
Product ID : "DLT7000           "
Product Rev: "296B"
Serial Number: "PXA50S2276"
WWN          : ""
WWN Id Type  : 0
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type    : SDT_TAPE
NetBackup Drive Type: 9
Removable      : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-2
Flags : 0x4
Reason: 0x0

For each tape drive in the tpconfig output, do the following:
- Use the device file name from the tpconfig output to locate the tape drive in the scan output.
  Step 1 shows device file pathnames /dev/st/nh3c0t5l0 and /dev/st/nh3c0t1l0.
- Determine the serial number of the drive in the scan output. "Tape" in the device type field identifies a tape drive.
  Step 2 shows example scan output shows the following:
  The drive /dev/st/nh3c0t5l0 serial number is PXA37S3261.
  The drive /dev/st/nh3c0t1l0 serial number is PXA50S2276.
- Verify that the serial number for the drive matches the serial number in the output from the robot section of scan. "Changer" in the device type field identifies a robot.
  In the previous examples, the serial numbers match.

Verifying your Shared Storage Option configuration

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