Administering managed media servers in CASO

After CASO is installed, you can perform tasks on the managed media servers from the Media Servers view on the central administration server. Managed media servers are also displayed in the Job Monitor view, in Current Jobs and in Job History.

Information displayed in the Media Servers view is described in the following table.

Table: Media Servers view

Item	Description
Name	Displays the name of the managed media server or central administration server. Along with the name, an icon representing a managed media server or central administration server is used to help you quickly differentiate between the two. See Administering managed media servers in CASO.
Description	Displays a user-defined description of the managed media server or the central administration server.
Communication Status	Displays the status of communications between the managed media server and the central administration server. Statuses include the following: Enabled - Communications about jobs between the managed media server and the central administration server are working properly. Disabled - Communications between the managed media server and the central administration server have been disabled by the user. Stalled - Communications between the managed media server and the central administration server have not occurred within the configured time threshold. See What happens when CASO communication thresholds are reached. No communication - No communication about jobs is being received at the central administration server from the managed media server. The configured time threshold has been reached. Jobs sent to the managed media server are recovered. Possible causes could range from a network failure to hardware failure in either the managed media server or the central administration server. See Recovering failed jobs in CASO. N/A - This status appears when the computer displayed in the Name column is a central administration server.
Media Server Status	Displays the present status of a managed media server. Valid statuses include the following: Online - All managed media server services are running and communication with the central administration server is functioning as expected. Paused - The managed media server has been placed in a Paused state by the user. Jobs are not delegated to the managed media server when it is in a Paused state. Unavailable - A state where no communications have been received by the central administration server from the managed media server. Offline - All managed media server services have been stopped; the media server cannot run jobs in an offline state.
Media Server Type	Displays Backup Exec's description of the media server. It can be either a managed media server or a central administration server.
Monitor Jobs Created Locally	Displays Yes if the option Monitor jobs that are created on the local managed media server in addition to the jobs that are delegated from the central administration server is enabled; otherwise, No is displayed. If this option is enabled, you can hold, delete, run, cancel, and change the priority of jobs that were copied from the central administration server. See How CASO works.
Catalog Location	Displays the location of the catalog. See Changing the CASO catalog location.
Version	Displays the version of Backup Exec for Windows Servers that is installed and running on the media server.
Operating System	Displays the type of operating system that is installed and running on the media server.
Operating System Build	Displays the build number of the operating system that is installed on the media server.

Icons are used in the Media Server view to help you quickly identify the operational status of Backup Exec managed media servers that appear in the Results pane.

These icons include the following:

Table: CASO icons

Icon	Description
	Central administration server - This icon represents a Backup Exec central administration server.
	Paused central administration server - This icon represents a Backup Exec central administration server that has been placed in a Paused state.
	Managed media server - This icon represents a Backup Exec media server that has been converted to a Backup Exec CASO-configured managed media server.
	Paused managed media server - This icon represents a managed media server that has been placed in a Paused state.
	Disabled managed media server - This icon represents a disabled managed media server.
	No icon appears- A computer name that displays without an associated icon is marked as Unknown.