About robot control

When you add a robot to NetBackup manually, you must configure how the robot is controlled. The New Robot dialog box includes a section named Robot control, in which you configure the control options.

Table: Robot control information lists the information required to configure the three robot control types (local, NDMP, and remote). The information required depends on the robot type and the media server type.

Table: Robot control information

Robot type	Media server type	Robot control	Information required for configuration
ACS	Windows, AIX, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX (except HP IA64), and Linux (except Linux64)	NDMP	NDMP host name and robot device
ACS	All	Remote	ACSLS host
TL4	UNIX	Local	Robotic device file
TL4	Windows	Local	Robot device or SCSI coordinates
TL8	UNIX	Local	Robotic device file
TL8	Windows	Local	Robot device or SCSI coordinates
TL8	Windows, AIX, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX (except HP IA64), and Linux (except Linux64)	NDMP	NDMP host name and robot device
TL8	All	Remote	Robot control host
TLD	UNIX	Local	Robotic device file
TLD	Windows	Local	Robot device or SCSI coordinates
TLD	Windows, AIX, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX (except HP IA64), and Linux (except Linux64)	NDMP	NDMP host name and robot device
TLD	All	Remote	Robot control host
TLH	All (except Solaris Opteron, HP IA64, AIX, Linux, and Linux64)	Local	Library name
TLH	AIX	Local	LMCP device file
TLH	Windows, AIX, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX (except HP IA64), and Linux (except Linux64)	NDMP	NDMP host name and robot device
TLH	All (except Solaris Opteron, Linux64)	Remote	Robot control host
TLM	All (except Linux64 and HP IA64)	Remote	DAS/SDLC server