Wizard Limitations

The following are limitations for this wizard:

• Auto-configuration works better with devices that support complete device serialization.

For devices to be fully configured by this wizard, each robot and drive must report a unique serial number, and each robot must report the serial number of each of the drives contained within the robot.

• To recognize the connected devices, device discovery, used by the wizard, needs to issue SCSI pass-thru commands to the devices. The supported server platforms may require special operating system configuration. See the NetBackup Media Manager device configuration guide for operating system configuration details for device discovery and the configuration requirements for devices to be recognized.
• All information required for full auto-configuration may not be available on some systems. In this case, the wizard will do as much as possible with the limited device information. Later you need to manually configure the remaining devices (see Completing Your Configuration).
• If tape drives are in use by a backup or restore, or are offline, they cannot be discovered and will not be configured.
• After adding or removing devices from a SCSI bus, the operating system must be made aware of the new configuration before auto-discovery can be used. Often this requires a reboot of the operating system.
• The wizard can discover RSM changers, but configures them as native SCSI devices not as RSM robot types.

The following points apply to NetBackup Enterprise Server.

• To scan and auto-configure a device, all of the device hosts (media servers or SAN media servers) that you select in the wizard must be running NetBackup release 4.5 or later. The scan for devices will fail on hosts that are running older release levels.
• To scan and auto-configure NDMP-attached devices for NetBackup, all of the device hosts (media servers or SAN media servers) that you select in the wizard must be running NetBackup release 5.0 or later. For other NetBackup hosts, NDMP-attached devices must be configured manually as described in the NetBackup for NDMP administrator's guide.
• Remote NDMP devices cannot be configured using this wizard. If you run the wizard, all devices attached to NetBackup servers are configured as standard NetBackup devices that will not be available for remote NDMP until they are manually configured by using the NetBackup Administration Console.
• This wizard does not support complete auto-configuration of LMF robots and drives, but the wizard can be used to configure drives in LMF robots as standalone drives.
• This wizard does not support the complete auto-configuration of ACS or TLM robots and shared drives, but the wizard can be used for some of the configuration. See Shared Drives in ACS Robots and Shared Drives in TLM Robots.