NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Media properties
- Network settings properties
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Resilient network properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a universal share
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Managing tape drives
- Managing robots and tape drives
- Inventorying robots
- Managing volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
When to inventory a robot
The following table describes the criteria to use to determine when to inventory a robot and which options to use for the inventory.
Table: Robot inventory criteria
Action | Inventory option to use |
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To determine the contents of a robot |
Use the option to determine the media in a robot and possibly their barcode numbers. |
To determine if volumes were moved physically within a robot |
For the robots with barcode readers and the robots that contain media with barcodes, use the option.See Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration. |
To add new volumes to a robot (a new volume is one that does not have a NetBackup media ID) |
For any robot NetBackup supports, use the option.The update creates media IDs (based on barcodes or a prefix that you specify). See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To determine whether new media have barcodes before you add them to NetBackup |
Use the option, which compares the contents of the robot with the NetBackup volume configuration information.After you examine the results, use the option to update the volume configuration if necessary.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To insert existing volumes into a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) |
If the robot supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new robotic location. NetBackup also updates the robot host, robot type, robot number, and slot location. Specify the volume group to which the volume is assigned.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robot does not support barcodes or the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. |
To move existing volumes between robotic and standalone (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) |
If the robotic library supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new robotic or standalone location.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |
To move existing volumes within a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) |
If the robot supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the residence information to show the new slot location.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robot does not support barcodes or if the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. |
To move existing volumes from one robot to another (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) |
If the robotic library supports barcodes and the volumes have readable barcodes, use the option. NetBackup updates the NetBackup volume configuration information.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. If the robots do not support barcodes or the volumes do not contain readable barcodes, move the volumes or use the physical inventory utility. For either operation, perform the following updates:
If you do not perform both updates, NetBackup cannot update the entries and writes an "Update failed" error. |
To remove existing volumes from a robot (an existing volume is one that already has a NetBackup media ID) |
For any robot NetBackup supports, use the option to update the NetBackup volume configuration information.See Updating the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents. |