liuyl
7 years agoLevel 6
directly tpautoconf without scan
I wonder if the scan cmd should be necessary before running tpautoconf, because most times we do not run scan and directly run tpautoconf -a successfully!
tpautoconf and scan are kinda similar ...
The way I think of it, scan shows what you have, tpautoconf 'gets' what you have and shoves it into the NBU config ...
The device wizard is a bit of both - it shows what you can configure, and then configures it, but unlike tpautoconf allows you to select what you want to configure.
tpautoconf -a is good, but really only for simple systems/ setups, as has been mentioned, it configures everything, you then have to delete stuff you didn;t want configured.
As Marianne points out, it's not essential, but useful to run scan first. Put bluntly, if you don't see your drives / robots in scan, they ain't going to magically appear if you run tpautoconf ...