eject with two library paritions, one CAP, ACSLS

[GSH]

Hi All

I am researching how to eject tapes. I have two Netbackup appliances (different domains). I have ACSLS. I have one SL3000 library configured into two partions with one CAP between them. Because of the partioning the CAP mode needs to be manually per ACSLS handbook. I would like to use Vault for the tape management. How do I configure the tape ejects since I need to manually reserve the CAP and then issue the physical tape eject from ACSLS? I read throught the Vault admin guide, but couldn't identify the eject case which fits to my environment - there is a deferred option but it doesn't explain what to do when I need to do the eject via ACSLS.
 

Any input is highly appreciated!

Thank you

Gabriela

[Marianne]

This is not really an Appliance question - rather general NBU with ACSLS.

Not sure why robot is partitioned when you have ACSLS?

Can you show us library and cap config from ACSLS:

q acs all

q lsm all

q cap all

[Nicolai]

To get around this I would suggest you copy eject list from the appliances to the ACSLS server and then eject using the ACSLS commands. This will however require some scripting

I can't see how this going to work "out of the box".

[GSH]

I am new to ACSLS and tape out with Netbackup. I was told by Oracle support that having only one CAP between two independent Netbackup appliances we need to partition the library and because of the partioning we needed ACSLS.

There person who will send the ejected tapes offsite can use the ACSLS GUI to reserve the CAP and eject tapes manually so no scripting required for that part. But I need Vault to send a list of tapes to be ejected to that person. I am having a problem figuring out how to configure the tape eject in Vault since it can't do the CAP reserve necessary. If I use the deferred option how is it going to know that the tapes were actually ejected.

Here is the ouput

ACSSA> q acs all
2015-06-24 09:32:38                ACS Status
 Identifier   State            Free Cell  Audit  Mount  Dismount  Enter  Eject
                               Count      C/P    C/P    C/P       C/P    C/P
   1          online           222        0/0    0/0    0/0       0/0    0/0
   2          online           45         0/0    0/0    0/0       0/0    0/0
ACSSA> q lsm all
2015-06-24 09:32:44                LSM Status
 Identifier   State            Free Cell  Audit  Mount  Dismount  Enter  Eject
                               Count      C/P    C/P    C/P       C/P    C/P
   1, 0       online           222        0/0    0/0    0/0       0/0    0/0
   2, 0       online           45         0/0    0/0    0/0       0/0    0/0
ACSSA> q cap all
2015-06-24 09:32:49                CAP Status
 Identifier   Priority  Size  State            Mode       Status   
   1, 0, 6    0         26    online           manual     available
   2, 0, 6    0         26    online           manual     available
 

[Genericus]

I have this same setup, I used virtual partitioning to set one range of tape numbers to my NB master, and another range to my AS/400.

Only the range of tapes defined for that system, is visible and inventoried.

Since it is virtual, I can use the same CAP with no issues.

If you have the option to virtually partition, that might solve your problem.

[Genericus]

sequence to update logical partitions:

1. add any new systems ip address and name to internet.addresses file

vi /export/home/ACSSS/data/external/access_control/internet.addresses

2. define system name in users.ALL.allow file

vi /export/home/ACSSS/data/external/access_control/users.ALL.allow

3. update attribute.dat file to define what tape groups the systems access

vi /export/home/ACSSS/data/external/vol_attr.dat

4. update config option 6

acsss_config

The files generally have a SAMPLE option that shows how to configure the files.

[GSH · Accepted solution]

I made significant progress with this.

Turns out Netbackup can make a reservation of the CAP in this configuration afterall. And I will be able eject the tapes via a profile run. It didn't work initally because for some reason I didn't get the possibilty to preset the Media access port. But after playing around with it all day I was finally able to preset the media access port in the Vault Attributes tab of the Vaul configuration.

Thank you for your efforts to help. I appreciate it.

[Nicolai]

Why use partitions when you can use ACSLS volume access control ?

I am sharing two SL8500 between multiple netbackup domains and tape ranges this way

http://www.mass.dk/netbackup-guides/acsls-volume-access-control/

[GSH]

Nicolai,

as I said earlier I am new to all of this and we got the recommendation to partition the library from Oracle and from other support personal. Since the library is already partition now I am not going to undo that. I was not aware of the ACSLS volume access control.

And since it works now - all is good.

Thank again everybody's input.

Gabriela

[Nicolai]

I guess Oracle didn't know about ACSLS volume access control either :)