Installation guide

Configuring Your IP4700 Device for Use with Backup Software
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Configuring Veritas NetBackup Software
Testing the Library To make sure there is communication with the robot, follow these
steps:
1. In the Media and Device Management window, right-click the
robot, and select Inventory.
2. Click Inventory Robot.
3. Click Start.
Within about 15 seconds the robot contents should scroll by. This
display lists each slot and whether it is empty or full and shows
the bar code label of the tape (if present). We strongly recommend
that you use bar codes on library tapes. Some libraries (for
example, ATL and ADIC) come with bar code labels that you can
affix to tapes, but some library vendors, such as STK and
Qualstar, offer them as an option. If your tapes are bar coded,
NetBackup assigns the bar code to the media ID. If your tapes do
not have bar codes, NetBackup chooses media IDs as it does for
standalone drives. This works well only if you never move tapes
within the library and never remove them from the library.
a. If the Inventory works fine, run the inventory again, this time
selecting update library contents, then Start.
b. If the Inventory does not work properly, run the robot test
program, tsdtest -r robot -d1 drive where robot is the
ndmp-hostname:robot-devicename, and drive is
ndmp-hostname:drive 1-devicename. Once the robot test program
comes up, type a question mark (?) to see a list of supported
commands. The test program is interactive; if the library
reports an error, the test program tries to interpret the error as
closely as it can. The problem resolution may be simple; you
may have to put the library on line from its front panel.
The following are some tsdtest commands you can use:
• inquiry to obtain device information.
• s s to read slot status.
• s d to read slot and drive status.
The following example of running the robot test program
shows some of these commands