I support a site using  using with 2 data centres, in each data centre there is 
-
1 x Solaris 10 system (sever/storage node)
1 EMC EDL  with embedded storage  - 12 devices to solaris , 6 devices to the 
embedded storage nodes 
1 x SL500 tape library with 6 tape drives , 4 presented to Solaris and 4 
presented to the EDL node ( 2 shared drives)

Getting to the point I have used the GUI auto-configuration on 
7.3.2/7.3.3/7.4.2/7.4.3 with complete success across the solaris/EDL nodes. It 
recognised the shared drives with no issues.
Delete all devices/jukeboxes. Scan for devices .........

When a drive changes address (that problem has been dealt with) or we 
reconfigure the presentation of them I have been able to drop drives from 
libraries and add the new drive using reconfigure library.

I have also used it on smaller sites with success.
I have stopped using jbconfig/jbedit.

I would like to know if any body has bad experiences with auto configuration of 
libraries. If so what OS and NetWorker version.

Regards

Kit







Francis Swasey wrote:
> I'm going to be reconfiguring my jukebox next Monday and before I go and 
> delete the jukebox and recreate it (and inventory 800 tapes) just to 
> move a tape drive from one storage node to another, I'm hoping that 
> jbedit will be my helpful helper here...
> 
> I'm running 7.4.4, on a Solaris 9 nsrserverhost and several Red Hat 
> Linux storage nodes.  The jukebox robot is attached to the Solaris 9 
> server and the 14 tape drives are spread across 7 storage nodes.  The 
> plan is to move drive 14 from rd=stornode1.uvm.edu:/dev/nst0 to 
> rd=stornodeA.uvm.edu:/dev/nst0.  The jukebox identifies this as element 
> 40013 (via sjisn).
> 
> Anyone fluent enough with jbedit to confirm that the following will work:
> 
> jbedit -j 'Qualstar XLS' -E 40013 -d -f 'rd=stornode1.uvm.edu:/dev/nst0'
> 
> jbedit -j 'Qualstar XLS' -E 40013 -a -f 'rd=stornodeA.uvm.edu:/dev/nst0'
> 
> -- if it is -- I figure I should at least disable the jukebox in 
> NetWorker while I'm doing this, but should I really (to be safe) shut NW 
> down?  Should I perform the delete, move the tape drive, and then 
> perform the add?  Or is that timing not relevant?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Frank Swasey                    | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs
> Sr Systems Administrator        | Always remember: You are UNIQUE,
> University of Vermont           |    just like everyone else.
> "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
> 
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