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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide
  3. Section II. Robotic storage devices
  4. Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
  5. NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging
  6. NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging for UNIX systems
  7. Optional environment variables
Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide

Optional environment variables

If you want individual NetBackup acsssi processes to operate differently, you can set environment variables before the acsssi processes are started.

The following table describes the optional environment variables.

Table: Optional environment variables

Environment variable

Description

SSI_HOSTNAME

Specifies the name of the host where ACS library software RPC return packets are routed for ACS network communications. By default, the local host name is used.

CSI_RETRY_TIMEOUT

Set this variable to a small positive integer. The default is 2 seconds.

CSI_RETRY_TRIES

Set this variable to a small positive integer. The default is five retries.

CSI_CONNECT_AGETIME

Set this variable to a value between 600 seconds and 31536000 seconds. The default is 172800 seconds.

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