jbconfig(8)
jbconfig(8)
NAME
jbconfig - jukebox resource configuration tool
SYNOPSIS
jbconfig [ -s server ] [ -lp ]
DESCRIPTION
The jbconfig program provides an interactive script for configuring a
jukebox (Media Autochanger Device) for use with a NetWorker server.
The script pauses periodically for you to enter a response to a prompt.
If you want to accept the default choice displayed in braces, press
[RETURN] or [ENTER].
Starting with NetWorker 7.2.1 and above; the support of LUS was discon-
tinued for Solaris 10 and above. If jbconfig reports that it cannot
find any autochangers after installation, run inquire to make sure it
is able to see the devices. Please refer to the inquire(8) man page
for more information. Sometimes in an ill-configured server, an
autochanger is seen but its drives are not mapped to the '/dev/rmt'
path but only to the '/dev/scsi/sequential' path. jbconfig will con-
figure the autochanger using this path. The problem here is that a
drive using the '/dev/scsi/sequential' path is assumed to be standalone
drive. This means the autochanger will not work correctly.
After the jukebox is configured, use the nsrcap(8) command or the Reg-
istration window to enter the enabler code for your Autochanger Soft-
ware Module. You must have a separate enabler code for each jukebox you
want to use with NetWorker.
OPTIONS
-s server
Specifies the controlling server, when jbconfig is being used
from a storage node. To define a jukebox resident on a storage
node, the jbconfig command must be run on the storage node. See
nsr_storage_node(5) for additional information on storage nodes.
-l Performs a complete LUN search for all SCSI adapters in the sys-
tem when performing Autodetection. This argument is accepted on
all systems, but does not have any effect on HP-UX systems. Due
to the method used to scan for available devices on HP-UX sys-
tems, all accessible devices are always shown, and the -l option
has no additional effect. On all other systems, the normal
behavior is to start checking at LUN 0 for SCSI deivces. The
first empty LUN found will end the search for a given target ID.
With the -l option, all LUNS present on all target IDs for all
SCSI busses in the system will be checked for jukeboxes. This
can take a very long time and should therefore only be used when
necessary. For example, a Fibre Channel adapter can support 126
target IDs, each of which may have 80 or more LUNs. Checking
all LUNs on this single adapter may take over 10 minutes.
-p Use persistent names for all automatically detected devices
where available. This will affect the control ports used for
autodetected SCSI Jukeboxes and device file names for tape
drives that jbconfig is able to automatically detect and config-
ure for you. If a given device does not have a persistent device
name then jbconfig will use the normal device name for that
device.
Currently only linux persistent device names are automatically
found and used by NetWorker. Specifying this flag on other
platforms will have no effect.
CONFIGURATION DIALOG
The first question jbconfig will ask you, is to select a type of juke-
box to install.
1) Configure an AlphaStor/SmartMedia Jukebox.
2) Configure an Autodetected SCSI Jukebox.
3) Configure an Autodetected NDMP SCSI Jukebox.
4) Configure a SJI Jukebox.
5) Configure a STL Silo.
What kind of Jukebox are you configuring? [1]
Enter the number corresponding to the jukebox type you are
installing.
The default selection is 1.
An AlphaStor Library is any jukebox that is controlled by EMC
AlphaStor. It is configured in NetWorker as a logical jukebox,
with the actual jukebox operations carried out by AlphaStor.
An Autodetected SCSI Jukebox is any SCSI (Small Computer System
Interface) based jukebox connected to a system that NetWorker
can automatically detect.
Autodetected NDMP SCSI Jukebox is any SCSI (Small Computer Sys-
tem Interface) based jukebox connected directly to a Network
Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Server, that NetWorker will
automatically detect, with the provided NDMP hostname, user-id,
user-password, and jukebox handle. (See example).
An SJI Jukebox is a Standard Jukebox Interface compliant juke-
box. This is a list of well known SCSI based jukeboxes, plus
any additional third party jukebox devices that adhere to this
protocol that the you may have added to the system.
If you select the second choice (Install an Autodetected SCSI
Jukebox), jbconfig will print out a list of jukeboxes it detects
on the system.
For example:
These are the SCSI Jukeboxes currently attached to your system:
1) scsidev@0.2.0: other, Vendor <AIWA>, Product <AL-17D>
2) scsidev@2.2.0: DLI Libra Series
3) scsidev@1.4.1: ARC-DiamondBack
Which one do you want to install?
When this message appears, enter the number corresponding to the
jukebox that you wish to configure. Note that if jbconfig was
able to detect only one SCSI jukebox on the system, it will go
ahead and select that jukebox as the one to be configured with-
out waiting for the user to make the selection. This also
applies to situations where there are multiple SCSI jukeboxes on
the system and all but one are already configured in NetWorker.
Even in this case jbconfig goes ahead and automatically selects
the one that has not yet been configured without waiting for the
user to make a selection.
If you choose to install an SJI compliant jukebox, jbconfig will
print a list of known SJI Jukeboxes and will prompt you for the
appropriate type that you want to configure.
For example:
Enter the number corresponding to the type of jukebox you
are installing:
1) ADIC-1200c/ADIC-1200d
2) ADIC-VLS
3) ARC-DiamondBack
4) Breece Hill
5) DLI Libra Series
6) Quantum DLT/Digital DLT
7) EXB-10e/EXB-10h
8) EXB-10i
9) EXB-60
10) EXB-120
11) EXB-210
12) EXB-218
13) EXB-400 Series
14) HP-C1553A/Surestore 12000e
15) Metrum (SCSI)
16) Qualstar
17) Spectralogic
18) STK-9704/Lago 340
19) STK-9708/Lago 380 (SCSI) Datawheel
20) IBM 7331/IBM 9427
21) ATL/Odetics SCSI
22) HP-Optical 630MB/1.3GB
23) other
Choice?
When this message appears, enter the number corresponding to the
appropriate model, for example, if you are installing an HP
optical jukebox select the number "22".
For all jukebox types, jbconfig prompts you for the name you
want to call this jukebox. This is a convenient way for you to
identify the jukebox for yourself and NetWorker, for example,
'Engineering Autochanger'. NetWorker will store this name as a
NetWorker resource (see nsr_resource(5)). When defining a juke-
box attached to a storage node, jbconfig prefixes the hostname
of the storage node to the beginning of the names using the
remote device syntax ("rd=hostname:"). See nsr_storage_node(5)
for additional information on storage nodes.
For all jukebox types, jbconfig prompts you for a description of
this jukebox. This is another convenient way for you to identify
the jukebox for yourself, for example, 'Engineering 4 Drive DLT
Autochanger on Rack #2'.
For SJI jukebox types, jbconfig prompts you for the name of the
control port associated with the jukebox being configured. For
Silos, this could be the name of the host running the silo soft-
ware (for ACSLS & DAS) or the name of the 3494, depending on the
type of Silo. For Autodetected SCSI jukeboxes, jbconfig detects
the correct name and goes ahead with the configuration. This
name is in the form of libscsi devices (see libscsi(8)). For
SJI compliant jukeboxes, no such detection is done. The name you
enter should either be the device name for the jukebox as
described in any third party SJI compliant driver installed, or
the format used for autodetected jukeboxes. A list of attached
autochangers can be obtained by running the changers(8) command.
Once a control port is entered, jbconfig will check to see if
the model selected is a SCSI or SJI based jukebox. If the juke-
box model is a SCSI or SJI based jukebox, jbconfig will attempt
to query the jukebox about various internal parameters (for
example, number of slots and drives). If this query fails, it is
possible that there is a device driver installation problem or a
hardware problem.
Next, if the jukebox contains tape devices, you are asked if
automated cleaning of devices in the jukebox should be turned
on. If automated cleaning is enabled, the jukebox and all
devices in the jukebox are configured for automated cleaning.
On successful installation, the information that pertains to
device cleaning for the jukebox and all its devices are dis-
played. Note that with the introduction of the Common Device
Interface (CDI), NetWorker now has two events that will cause an
automatic cleaning to occur: schedule-based cleaning, with
devices being cleaned after a certain (configurable) amount of
time has elapsed, and on-demand cleaning, where cleaning is ini-
tiated by TapeAlert warnings issued by the devices. Schedule-
based cleaning is always active when autocleaning is enabled.
On-demand cleaning is used when the CDI attribute for a tape
device is set to anything other than 'Not Used' in the device
resource. If on-demand cleaning is being used, you should set
the Cleaning Interval for the device itself to a large time,
such as 6 months, so that NetWorker does not clean the device
unnecessarily. See nsr_device.5 for a more detailed explanation
of CDI, TapeAlert and Cleaning Interval.
At this point, the user has an option of either going ahead with
automatic configuration of the jukebox, accepting all detected
information and default choices as correct, or choosing to cus-
tom configure some or all aspects of the configuration, includ-
ing configuring devices as NDMP or shared devices, configuring
drives that were not detected by jbconfig, or changing the model
type of any of the detected devices. The user can choose to go
the custom configuration route by answering 'yes' to the follow-
ing question:
Do you want to change the model(s) or configure them as shared
or NDMP drives? (yes / no) [no]
If the user chooses the custom configuration option, the user is
given a choice of configuring the drives as NDMP and/or shared
drives. Answering 'yes' to either of the prompts will take the
user to other relevant questions about NDMP and/or shared drive
configuration.
If the user chose 'yes' to configuring NDMP devices, jbconfig
proceeds to prompt the user for this information. NDMP devices
require a user name and password to be entered for each device.
The user name and password correspond to the entries set in the
NDMP server.
If the user chose 'yes' to configuring shared drives, the user
is prompted for multiple device paths for each physical drive in
the jukebox. These device paths would typically be located on
different storage nodes within a data zone, under the control of
one NetWorker Server. Drives or device paths on remote nodes are
to be entered in the "host:<device-path>" form. It's not neces-
sary that all drives in a jukebox be shared drives; entering a
null response to a prompt for additional device paths for a
drive skips that drive and takes you to the next step in the
configuration. A unique 'hardware-id' of the form '<jukebox
name> - <drive no>' is automatically assigned to each shared
instance of a drive. The 'hardware-id' is how NetWorker keeps
track of shared devices. See nsr_device(5) for a description of
the hardware-id attribute.
Next, jbconfig prompts the user for the model of the drives
being configured. In case jbconfig has been able to detect the
model type(s), it will display this information and ask for con-
firmation. If not, it lets the user configure the model for each
drive.
If you selected Autodetected SCSI jukeboxes, NetWorker deter-
mines the name of each media device by sending inquiries for
information to the jukebox. Not all jukeboxes support this capa-
bility, but many do (for example, the Exabyte 210). This
inquiry does not take place when the owning host is different
than where jbconfig is running.
If configuring devices on a remote storage node, jbconfig asks
the user if s/he wants to configure the node on which the device
is being configured as a Dedicated Storage Node (DSN). A DSN is
a node which allows only data from the local host to be backed
up to its devices. See nsr_device(5) for more details on DSN.
The question is of the form:
A Dedicated Storage Node can backup only local data to its devices.
Should helium be configured as a Dedicated Storage Node? (yes/no)
[no]
Earlier versions of jbconfig used to prompt the user for information
about bar code readers in jukeboxes and whether volume names
should match bar code labels. With NetWorker 7.0 and later,
jbconfig tries to set these attributes either by querying
the jukebox for information or making intelligent guesses. For
Silos, the 'bar code reader' and 'match bar code labels'
attributes in the jukebox resource are set to 'yes' by default.
If it is a jukebox, jbconfig queries the jukebox for this infor-
mation. If both features are supported by the jukebox, it sets
both fields to 'yes.' If both features are not supported, it
sets both fields to 'no.' However, if the jukebox reports that
it can handle volume tags, but has no bar code reader, jbconfig
still sets both fields to 'yes,' since some jukeboxes with bar
code readers tend to report this way. At the end of the instal-
lation jbconfig prints out this information and the user can use
the 'nwadmin' GUI to edit the jukebox resource to set the fields
to 'No' if he so desires.
If the above two fields are set, the label templates will not
be used by the jukebox, and each media volume must have a read-
able bar code label. Note that on some small jukeboxes, like
the HP 1557A or the SONY TSL_A500C, setting 'bar code reader' to
'yes' may cause problems with the labeling. The solution is to
set the appropriate attributes to 'No' as described above.
If the jukebox has been configured successfully you will see the
following message:
Jukebox has been added successfully
The following configuration options have been set:
followed by a list of options that have been set by default.
JBCONFIG FILE
The file /nsr/jbconfig is the jukebox models configuration file. This
file can be used to configure a non-standard list of jukebox models.
VECTOR-TYPE MODEL-NAME<NEWLINE>, where VECTOR-TYPE is either SJI (the
Standard Jukebox Interface) or ATL (RS232-based devices speaking the
IGM-ATL serial communications protocol). The MODEL-NAME can be any
string.
EXAMPLES
(User entries are in italics).
Example 1)
# jbconfig
1) Configure an AlphaStor/SmartMedia Jukebox.
2) Configure an Autodetected SCSI Jukebox.
3) Configure an Autodetected NDMP SCSI Jukebox.
4) Configure a SJI Jukebox.
5) Configure a STL Silo.
What kind of Jukebox are you configuring? [1] 2 <RETURN>
These are the SCSI Jukeboxes currently attached to your system:
1) scsidev@0.6.0: EXB-210
2) scsidev@3.0.0: ADIC
Which one do you want to install? 1<RETURN>
Installing an 'EXB-210' jukebox - scsidev@0.6.0
What name do you want to assign to this jukebox device? Engineer-
ing<RETURN>
Turn NetWorker auto-cleaning on (yes/no) [yes]? yes<RETURN>
The following drives have been detected in this auto-changer:
1> 8mm @ 1.1.0 ==> \\.\Tape0
2> 8mm @ 1.2.0 ==> \\.\Tape1 These are all the drives that this auto
changer possesses.
Do you want to change the model(s) or configure them as shared or NDMP
drives? (yes / no) [no] yes <RETURN>
Is (any path of) any drive intended for NDMP use? (yes / no) [no] yes
<RETURN>
Is any drive going to have more than one path defined? (yes / no) [no]
yes <RETURN>
You will be prompted for multiple paths for each drive. Pressing
<Enter> on a null default advances to the next drive.
Please enter the device path information in one of the following for-
mats:
\\.\Tape0 --for local path or
host:device-path --for remote node or
host:drive-letter:directory path --for Windows disk file
Drive 1, element 82, system name = \\.\Tape0,
local bus / target / lun value = 1/1/0,
model 8mm
Device path 1 ? [\\.\Tape0]
Enter NDMP user name for host 'happy'? [] user1 <RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed): <RETURN>
Device path 2 ? [] helium:/dev/rmt/1cbn
Enter NDMP user name for host 'helium'? [] user3 <RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed): <RETURN>
Device path 3 ? [] <RETURN>
Drive 2, element 83, system name = \\.\Tape1,
local bus / target / lun value = 1/2/0,
model 8mm
Device path 1 ? [\\.\Tape1]
Enter NDMP user name for host 'ableix.legato.com'? [] <RETURN>
Device path 2 ? [] <RETURN>
Only model 8mm drives have been detected.
Are all drives in this jukebox of the same model? (yes / no) [yes] yes
<RETURN>
A Dedicated Storage Node can backup only local data to its devices.
Should helium be configured as a Dedicated Storage Node? (yes / no)
[no] no <RETURN>
Jukebox has been added successfully
The following configuration options have been set:
> Jukebox description to the control port and model.
> Autochanger control port to the port at which we found it.
> Networker managed tape autocleaning on.
> At least one drive was defined with multiple paths. All such drives
are defined with a hardware identification as well as a path value to
avoid confusion by uniquely identifying the drive. The hardware iden-
tification for all drives which have one is always 'autochanger_name -
Drive #' where "autochanger_name" is the name you gave to the
autochanger that was just defined, and the # symbol is the drive numer.
> Barcode reading to on.
> Volume labels that match the barcodes.
> Slot intended to hold cleaning cartridge to 1. Please insure that a
cleaning cartridge is in that slot
> Number of times we will use a new cleaning cartridge to 12.
> Cleaning interval for the tape drives to 6 months.
You can review and change the characteristics of the autochanger and
its associated devices using nwadmin.
Would you like to configure another jukebox? (yes/no) [no] no <RETURN>
Example 2)
Here is an example of a SmartMedia autoloader configured with NDMP
devices on a storage node.
# jbconfig -s server
On a storage node, the hostname is a prefix to the jukebox name.
Enter the hostname to use as a prefix? [brown.emc.com] <RETURN>
using 'brown.legato.com' as the hostname prefix
1) Configure an AlphaStor/SmartMedia Jukebox.
2) Configure an Autodetected SCSI Jukebox.
3) Configure an Autodetected NDMP SCSI Jukebox.
4) Configure a SJI Jukebox.
5) Configure a STL Silo.
What kind of Jukebox are you configuring? [1] <RETURN>
Installing an AlphaStor/SmartMedia jukebox.
Name you would like to assign to the AlphaStor/SmartMedia jukebox?
myautoloader<RETURN>
Name of AlphaStor server host machine? [brown.emc.com] <RETURN>
Port number of AlphaStor/SmartMedia server? [44475] <RETURN>
How many devices are to be configured (1 to 64)? [4] 2<RETURN>
Enter hostname that owns logical device 1: ? [brown.emc.com]
<RETURN>
Enter name of logical device 1: ? stk1<RETURN>
Should the drive be configured as a NDMP device? (yes/no) y<RETURN>
Enter NDMP user name: ? root<RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed): password<RETURN>
Enter hostname that owns logical device 2: ? [brown.emc.com]
<RETURN>
Enter name of logical device 2: ? stk2<RETURN>
Enter NDMP user name: ? root<RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed): password<RETURN>
Enter application name defined in AlphaStor/SmartMedia for NetWorker? [Net-
Worker@server] <RETURN>
Enter application key defined in AlphaStor/SmartMedia for NetWorker? [<none>]
<RETURN>
The barcode reader is enabled and volume labels are set to match bar-
code labels.
Jukebox has been added successfully
Would you like to configure another jukebox? (yes/no) no<RETURN>
Example 3)
Here is an example of configuring a jukebox attached to NDMP Tape
Server.
# jbconfig
1) Configure an AlphaStor Library.
2) Configure an Autodetected SCSI Jukebox.
3) Configure an Autodetected NDMP SCSI Jukebox.
4) Configure a SJI Jukebox.
5) Configure a STL Silo.
What kind of Jukebox are you configuring? [1]
3<RETURN>
Enter NDMP Tape Server name: ?
molokai<RETURN>
Enter NDMP user name: ?
root<RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed):
password<RETURN>
Communicating to devices on NDMP Server 'molokai', this may take a while...
These are the SCSI Jukeboxes currently attached to your system:
1) scsidev@0.2.0: Exabyte Jukebox
2) scsidev@0.3.0: Standard SCSI Jukebox, QUANTUM / Powerstor L200
Which one do you want to install?
1<RETURN>
Installing an 'Exabyte Jukebox' jukebox - scsidev1027.2.0.
What name do you want to assign to this jukebox device?
netapp_jb<RETURN>
Turn NetWorker auto-cleaning on (yes/no) [yes]?
yes<RETURN>
The drives in this jukebox cannot be auto-configured with the available
information. You will need to provide the path for the drives.
Is (any path of) any drive intended for NDMP use? (yes / no) [no]
yes<RETURN>
Is any drive going to have more than one path defined? (yes/no) [no]
no<RETURN>
Please enter the device path information in one of the following formats:
\.Tape0 --for local path or
host:device-path --for remote node or
host:drive-letter:directory path --for Windows disk file
After you have entered a device path, you will be prompted for an NDMP
user name for that path's host. If this device path is not an NDMP device,
press the enter key to advance to the next device path. For NDMP devices,
you need to enter the user name and password the first time we encounter
that NDMP host. Pressing the enter key for the NDMP user name for any
subsequent device path on the same host will set the user name and password
to those defined the first time. You will not be prompted for the password
in such a case.
Drive 1, element 82
Drive path ?
molokai;nrst2l<RETURN>
Enter NDMP user name for host 'molokai'? []
root<RETURN>
Enter NDMP password (characters will not be echoed):
password
Please select the appropriate drive type number:
1) 3480 18) 9840 34) optical
2) 3570 19) 9840b 35) qic
3) 3590 20) 9940 36) SD3
4) 4890 21) adv_file 37) sdlt
5) 4mm 22) dlt 38) sdlt320
6) 4mm 12GB 23) dlt1 39) SLR
7) 4mm 20GB 24) dlt7000 40) tkz90
8) 4mm 4GB 25) dlt8000 41) travan10
9) 4mm 8GB 26) dst (NT) 42) tz85
10) 8mm 27) dtf 43) tz86
11) 8mm 20GB 28) dtf2 44) tz87
12) 8mm 5GB 29) file 45) tz88
13) 8mm AIT 30) himt 46) tz89
14) 8mm AIT-2 31) logical 47) tz90
15) 8mm AIT-3 32) LTO Ultrium 48) tzs20
16) 8mm Mammoth-2 33) LTO Ultrium-2 49) VXA
17) 9490
Enter the drive type of drive 1?
16<ERTURN>
Jukebox has been added successfully
The following configuration options have been set:
> Jukebox description to the control port and model.
> Autochanger control port to the port at which we found it.
> Networker managed tape autocleaning on.
> Barcode reading to on. Your jukebox does not report that it has a bar
code reader, but it does report that it can handle volume tags. Some
jukeboxes that have barcode readers report this way.
> Volume labels that match the barcodes.
> Slot intended to hold cleaning cartridge to 1. Please insure that a
cleaning cartridge is in that slot
> Number of times we will use a new cleaning cartridge to 5.
> Cleaning interval for the tape drives to 6 months.
You can review and change the characteristics of the autochanger and its
associated devices using NetWorker Management Console.
Would you like to configure another jukebox? (yes/no) [no]
no<RETURN>
SEE ALSO
jbexercise(8), nsr_device(5), nsr_jukebox(5), nsr_storage_node(5),
nsr(5), nsrcap(8).
DIAGNOSTICS
unknown model invalid choice for 'model' (35022)
Problem: The NetWorker system does not recognize the model cho-
sen. If you added a /nsr/jbconfig* file after starting the dae-
mons, you will see this error.
Solution: Restart NetWorker.
root on computer host is not on type: NSR's
administrator list
Problem: The user 'root' on the storage node 'host' is not on
the administrator list of the NetWorker server.
Solution: Add such an entry to the NetWorker server's administrator
list.
Note that the entry can be removed after this command completes.
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