Enabling or disabling the FT services

You can enable or disable the FT services on NetBackup FT media servers.

The following are the services that compose the FT server:

The nbftsrvr service manages the server side of the FT pipe.
The nbfdrv64 service controls the target mode drivers on the media server.

The nbftsrvr service starts the nbfdrv64 service. If you stop one, the other stops. If one ends abnormally, the other stops.

These services do not appear in the NetBackup Activity Monitor; they do appear in the operating system process displays.

Warning:

Do not use the UNIX kill -9 command and option to stop the nbfdrv64 process. It does not allow the process to stop gracefully, and the SAN clients cannot detect the FT devices when the nbfdrv64 process dies. You then may have to reboot the client systems so they detect the FT devices again (after you restart nbfdrv64).

To enable or disable FT services

In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Devices > Media Server.
Select an FT media server in the Details pane.
Click either Actions > Enable FT Services or Actions >Disable FT Services.