Any way to run vltopmenu from a remote workstation?

[HoldTheLine]

I need to find a way to allow (non NetBackup) people to run vltopmenu to inject/eject tapes for a smaller library.

Only thing is I am not sure about getting them acces to the Master to run vltopmenu - somewhere along the line a predecessor made the claim that this exe can be run from a remote workstation - and I have not been able to fine any documentation to back that up.

Does anyone know if that is even possible?

[sri_vani]

Its not possible to run the command without having the acceess to the Master, to run vltopmenu command it requires sudo/root access frm Master server.

[Nicolai]

You can put the workstation on the server list on the master server. This also mean the workstation has full administrative right to the entire Netbackup installation,

[sri_vani]

Hey Nicolai,

I have tried excecuting vltopmenu from Media server but it is throwing status 25 error and working fine with master.

[HoldTheLine]

This is what I would have assumed - what threw me off was the claim that it can be run from "any workstation".  Knowing NBU that threw up a red flag right away ... and it makes sense.  Why would any desktop be allowed to run vault commands?!

[sri_vani · Accepted solution]

The vltopmenu and vlteject commands must be initiated from the master server where the vault.xml is located so the VLTEJECT or VLTOPMENU commands will be executed  from a NetBackup master server.

Refernce Link:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH89292

[Nicolai]

Forgot to mention, you need to add to vm.conf server list as well. My bad