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Chrisw74
Level 2
4 years ago

Command to remotely restart Media Management services

What is the command to restart Media Management services for a media server? Like you would find under:

NetBackup Console > Media and Device Management > Device > Media Servers > MediaServer1 (right click) > Stop and Start Media Manager Device Daemon.

We have a misbehaving media server we are working on (with Veritas case) but in the meantime I'd like to just monitor the vmoprcmd status and then issue a restart of the daemon if it goes offline for tape. If I only knew what the command was... 

8.3.x
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  • Tape_Archived's avatar
    Tape_Archived
    Moderator
    4 years ago

    If your environment happens to be Windows, you can leverage PowerShell to start and stop the NetBackup services

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName your_media_server -ScriptBlock {& 'C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpdown.exe' -v -f}

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName your_media_server -ScriptBlock {& 'C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpup.exe' -v -f}

    To specifically stop media manager use stopltid and then ltid to start under C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\bin

    • X2's avatar
      X2
      Moderator
      4 years ago

      Tape_Archived I used to do that in our environment till they disabled PSRemoting for improving security! But there are still things one can do from the master server. I have already added the above command Marianne suggested.

  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    4 years ago

    /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/stopltid
    <wait a bit>

    /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/ltid -v to restart

    • Marianne's avatar
      Marianne
      Level 6
      4 years ago

      mph999 

      I think those commands must be run locally on each media server, right?

      Any idea about the command that Java GUI runs when it is done from the Console?
      My guess is that it will be something that could be found in undocumented vmoprcmd -Q output?

      Oh! I think I found it:

      https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Configure-Tape-Devices/td-p/536314/page/2

      vmoprcmd -Q


      -startltid
      Start ltid. This option is used by java.
      -stopltid
      Stop ltid. This option is used by java.

      You should be able to combine this with -h <media server>

      • mph999's avatar
        mph999
        Level 6
        4 years ago

        Ahh, sorry - yes those commands would be run on the media server

        Well I've learnt something, didn't know vmoprcmd  could restart ltid .....