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Dell EMC Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748-9103 1-508-435-1000 In North America 1-866-464-7381 www.DellEMC.com 2 Dell EMC NetWorker Administration Guide CONTENTS Figures 15 Tables 17 Preface 21 Chapter 1 Overview 25 The NetWorker environment.............................................................................26 NetWorker Components...................................................................... 26 NetWorker services.......................................................................................... 28 Processes on NetWorker hosts ...........................................................28 Stop and start the NMC Server........................................................... 32 Stop and start a NetWorker Server, Client, or Storage Node...............34 NetWorker user interfaces................................................................................36 NMC user interface..............................................................................36 NetWorker Administration window.......................................................38 NetWorker client interface...................................................................38 NetWorker character-based interface................................................. 38 NetWorker command-line interface..................................................... 38 Introduction to the NetWorker Management Web UI...........................39 Chapter 2 Getting Started 41 NetWorker Management Console interface...................................................... 42 Connecting to the Console window......................................................42 Connecting to the Administration window.........................................................47 Opening the Administration window.....................................................47 Administration window......................................................................... 47 Editing multiple resources.................................................................... 49 Drag-and-drop functionality.................................................................49 Multiple library devices and slots.......................................................... 51 Setting user interaction preferences.................................................... 51 Monitoring NetWorker Server activities in the Administration window.... 51 Getting started with a new installation.............................................................. 61 Common NetWorker tasks....................................................................61 Chapter 3 Backup Target 69 Label templates.................................................................................................70 Using label templates........................................................................... 70 How the NetWorker server uses volume labels.................................... 70 Preconfigured label templates.............................................................. 71 Guidelines for completing Label Template attributes............................ 71 Naming label templates........................................................................ 74 Working with label templates............................................................... 75 Setting up a label template to identify volumes.................................... 76 Dell EMC NetWorker Administration Guide 3 Contents Media pools.......................................................................................................77 Using media pools.................................................................................77 Storage nodes................................................................................................... 91 Requirements....................................................................................... 91 Licensing..............................................................................................92 Storage node configuration..................................................................92 Storage Node Options......................................................................... 98 Configuring a dedicated storage node..................................................99 Troubleshooting storage nodes............................................................ 99 Disk storage devices........................................................................................100 Example environment..........................................................................101 Considerations for Client Direct clients............................................... 101 Differences between FTDs, AFTDs, and DD Boost devices.................103 Device target and max sessions default values and ranges................. 106 Advanced file type devices................................................................. 107 DD Boost and Cloud Tier devices........................................................120 Libraries and silos.............................................................................................121 Overview of tape device storage......................................................... 121 Support for LTO-4 hardware-based encryption...................................121 Linux device considerations................................................................ 122 Solaris device considerations.............................................................. 123 HP-UX device considerations............................................................. 123 AIX device considerations...................................................................126 SCSI and VTL libraries........................................................................ 126 Silo libraries.........................................................................................161 NDMP libraries....................................................................................170 NetWorker hosts with shared libraries................................................ 170 Dynamic drive sharing.........................................................................173 File type devices.............................................................................................. 178 FTD capacity issues............................................................................ 178 Full FTD prevention.............................................................................178 Stand-alone devices........................................................................................ 179 Autodetecting and configuring a stand-alone tape drive..................... 179 Adding a stand-alone device manually.................................................179 Auto Media Management for stand-alone devices.............................. 180 Mounting or unmounting a volume in a stand-alone tape drive............ 181 Labeling and mounting a volume in one operation (stand-alone tape drive).................................................................................................. 181 Labeling volumes without mounting....................................................182 Mounting uninventoried volumes........................................................ 182 Labeling volumes............................................................................................. 183 Labeling or re-labeling library volumes................................................ 183 Verifying the label when a volume is unloaded.................................... 184 Troubleshooting devices and autochangers..................................................... 184 Additional attributes in the Autochanger resource.............................. 184 Maintenance commands..................................................................... 185 Autodetected SCSI jukebox option causes server to stop responding 185 Autochanger inventory problems........................................................ 185 Destination component full messages.................................................185 Tapes do not fill to capacity................................................................186 Tapes get stuck in drive when labeling tapes on Linux Red Hat platform ........................................................................................................... 186 Increasing the value of Save Mount Time-out for label operations......187 Server cannot access autochanger control port................................. 187 Changing the sleep times required for TZ89 drive types.....................188 Message displayed when CDI enabled on NDMP or file type device... 188 4 Dell EMC NetWorker Administration Guide Contents Verify