Device Discovery, Device Serialization, and the Device Mapping File

This wizard uses device discovery to auto-configure devices and add robotic libraries and drives to your Media Manager configuration. To perform these tasks, this wizard uses device serialization.

This wizard performs better if the robotic libraries and drives that you are configuring all support complete device serialization (see Wizard Uses Device Serialization).

To recognize the connected devices, device discovery needs to issue SCSI pass-thru commands to the devices. See Wizard Limitations.

The device mapping file is also used by the Device Configuration wizard to automatically discover and configure new robots and drives. For more information about this file, see the NetBackup Media Manager system administrator's guide.