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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
  5. Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
  7. About managing NetBackup devices
  9. Manage > Devices > Drive view
Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Manage > Devices > Drive view

This view is displayed when you select Manage > Devices > Drive. This view shows details for the drives that are configured for use by NetBackup for the current View pane selection. This view shows information about all the drives and also includes disabled or unreachable drives.

See Controlling the scope of Manage views.

The table that appears in this view shows the following columns by default:

Table: Manage > Devices > Drive view

Column Heading

Description

Drive Name

This column lists the configured name of the drive. Click the link to view details about the drive.

Device Host

This column lists the name of the device host (media server) where this drive is attached. If multiple drive paths are configured, this column contains Multiple. If the drive is configured as a shared drive (SSO), this column contains Multiple.

Master Server

This column lists the name of the master server that is associated with the drive.

Drive Type

This column specifies the type of drive.

Example: hcart2, hcart3, 4MM.

Robot Type

This column specifies the type of robot that contains this drive.

Example: TL4, TLD.

Enabled

This column contains Yes if the path is enabled. The column contains No if the path is not enabled. If multiple drive paths are configured, this column contains Multiple.

Not all of the available columns appear initially in this view. The following columns do not appear, but can be added to your view by clicking the Table Settings icon:

  • Serial Number

  • Cleaning Frequency

  • Shared

  • Inquiry Information

  • Volume Header Path

  • ACS

  • LSM

  • Panel

  • Drive

  • Vendor Drive Identifier

  • Robot Number

  • Robot Drive Number

  • Recorded Media ID

  • Assigned Host

  • Control Host Name

  • Evsn

  • Last Clean Time

  • Local Control

  • Mounted Time

  • NDMP

  • Occupy Index

  • Opr Comment

  • Ready

  • Request ID

  • Scan Host

  • VM Host

  • Write Enabled

See the online NetBackup Administration Console Help for a detailed description of these fields.

More information about how to customize tables and view specific columns is available.

See About using tables.

The following tasks can be performed from this view:

View the details for a single drive

See Viewing the details for a single drive.

View the details of a master server that is associated with a drive

See Viewing the details for a master server associated with a drive.

Use filters to view specific drives

See Filtering on NetBackup drive category.

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