All:
Our environment, HP-UX 11-31 currently running master / media server on NetBackup 6.5.2. (I know, 6.5 is getting old, we are trying to plan an upgrade.) We are running mostly unix / Linux backups and a couple windows b/u’s thrown in for good measure.
I’m trying to set up a new media server running on Redhat Linux using an older Overland LXB tape library. The robot is at a remote site so I don’t have physical access to it and there isn’t a web interface for the robot which makes this a bit more difficult to work on. The robot and drive shows up in the Device Monitor window but the drive is in AVR mode. When I run the Configure Storage Devices the robot and drive are discovered but the drive is in standalone mode. I tried dragging the drive up to the robot when configuring it but that didn’t take care of the problem. NetBackup can see the robot and one drive when I run a /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan on it but under the robot information it is missing any entries indicating that the robot knows about the drive. Below is the o/p of the scan on the Overland robot and then on a different robot on another media server that works:
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Device Name : "/dev/sg1"
Passthru Name: "/dev/sg1"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry : "OVERLANDLXB 0107"
Vendor ID : "OVERLAND"
Product ID : "LXB "
Product Rev: "0107"
Serial Number: "1R53400335"
WWN : ""
WWN Id Type : 0
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type : SDT_CHANGER
NetBackup Robot Type: 8
Removable : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-2
Number of Drives : 1
Number of Slots : 17
Number of Media Access Ports: 0
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0
root@L4001:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:
I ran the scan on a working library on a different media server (HP-UX) and it shows the following:
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Device Name : "/dev/rchgr/autoch13"
Passthru Name: "/dev/rchgr/autoch13"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry : "HP MSL G3 Series 8.30"
Vendor ID : "HP "
Product ID : "MSL G3 Series "
Product Rev: "8.30"
Serial Number: "MXA307Z005_LL0"
WWN : ""
WWN Id Type : 0
Device Identifier: "HP MSL G3 Series MXA307Z005_LL0"
Device Type : SDT_CHANGER
NetBackup Robot Type: 8
Removable : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-5
Number of Drives : 2
Number of Slots : 24
Number of Media Access Ports: 0
Drive 1 Serial Number : "HU1303U9HK"
Drive 2 Serial Number : "HU1251TY56"
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0
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Should there be entries for the Drives and Serial numbers in the Overland scan output or am I chasing the wrong thing? Has anyone had a problem like this or know of something that needs to be changed in the Library configuration so the drive doesn’t show up as standalone? Any info or ideas are welcomed.
Thanks in advance…
Wayne BeDour
Unix System Administrator
PH: 248-447-1739
Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com
