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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 Daemons tab
  6. Types of NetBackup daemons
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Types of NetBackup daemons

The following table describes additional information about NetBackup daemons, found on the UNIX platform.

Standalone daemons

Always run and listen to accept connections. Examples include bpdbm, bprd, bpjobd, and vmd.

Multiprocess standalone daemons

Splits or forks a child process to handle requests. Examples include bpdbm and bprd.

Single-process standalone daemons

Accept connections and handle requests in the same process.

inetd daemons

inetd(1m) or bpinetd usually launch these NetBackup daemons. Examples include bpcd, bpjava-msvc, and vnetd.

It is recommended that you exit all instances of the NetBackup Administration Console after restarting daemons in the Activity Monitor or by using a command. Then restart the console with the jnbSA command.

The jnbSA command is described in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

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