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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Stopping and restarting the device manager
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Stopping and restarting the device manager

Use the following procedure to stop and restart the NetBackup Device Manager.

See About the NetBackup Device Manager.

To start or stop the Device Manager

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Devices.
  2. On the Actions menu, select Stop/Restart Media Manager Device Daemon.
  3. In the Stop/Restart Media Manager Device Daemon dialog box, do the following:

    1

    In the Device host list, select the media server that you want to restart.

    2

    Select the Action: Start, Stop, or Stop/Restart.

    The actions that are available depend on the state of the device manager or daemon.

    3

    Select the wanted Options: Eject media from standalone drive(s) or Enable verbose logging.

    4

    Click Apply or OK, depending on the following results:

    • Apply does not close the dialog box so you can select device hosts and actions for more than another device host.

    • OK closes the dialog box.

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