Restricting administrative privileges of media servers

The servers in the Media servers list are media servers only. (Host Properties > Master Server or Media Servers > Servers.)

Computers that are listed as media servers can back up and restore clients, but have limited administrative privileges.

Consider a configuration that consists of master server orbiterv and two media servers - media1 and media2. Set up orbiterv as the master server and media1 and media2 as media servers.

If a computer is defined as both a master server and a media server, the master server entry takes precedence.

A server that is listed as both a master and a media server has consequences. It allows a media server system administrator to be a NetBackup administrator on other master servers.

See Master server.

See Additional servers list.

See Media servers list.

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Multiple masters that share one Enterprise Media Manager host

Adding a server to a remote server list