[Veritas-bu] robot inventory on acsls master w/o drives

 This is interesting. In our environment our media servers control the robot. 
Now how do I make  ltid to start on the Mater server without creating the drive 
and robot entries ?

TIA

Dayal
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:41:10  
 David A. Chapa wrote:
>Alright...shame on me for not being more clear on my previous response.
>
>you need LTID if you want your master to be the robot control host...if you
>want that follow Anthony's recommendation.  If you want control to stay with
>your media server, then your master will only run vmd.
>
>I stand by my original email...you don't need ltid on a voldb HOST only
>Master,  you do if it is to control the robotics.
>
>I hope that clears up my response.
>
>David
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of David A.
>Chapa
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:38 AM
>To: Mike Andres; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] robot inventory on acsls master w/o drives
>
>
>I stand Corrected...you DO need the ltid running on the master...Chris and
>Larry thanks for the correction.
>
>David
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>David A. Chapa
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of David A.
>Chapa
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:58 AM
>To: Mike Andres; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] robot inventory on acsls master w/o drives
>
>
>Yes you can.
>
>You don't need the ltid processes running on your master, only vmd if its
>only the volDB Host.  Ltid (logical tape interface daemon) only runs on
>media servers.  When you configure your media servers with ACS you will
>enter the robotic control host information (server running acsls), the volDB
>host doesn't need to control the robot.
>
>I'm in the process of designing a highly available netbackup environment by
>splitting the master off from the media server portion of the configuration.
>
>The master will have no drives and will be the volDB host being protected by
>VCS...
>
>I haven't tested it out yet, but in theory this should work...unless there
>are some idiosyncrasies with acsls that I don't know about.  :-)
>
>David
>
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>DataStaff, Inc.
>http://www.consulting.datastaff.com
>847 413 1144
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Mike Andres
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:45 PM
>To: 'Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] robot inventory on acsls master w/o drives
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>   Is it possible to make a master server the volume database host of a 9310
>library under acsls control if the master does not have access to any
>drives?  Since acsls actually controls the library and the master can talk
>to it via the net I would think that it can, but w/o ltid starting I can't
>get the acs* processes to start.  Anyone have any ideas/similar configs?
>
>Thanks,
>-mike
>
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