About the physical inventory utility

For the robots without bar code readers or that contain media without bar codes, the NetBackup Administration Console inventory reports only the presence of media in a robotic library. More detailed information is required to perform automated media management. Use the vmphyinv physical inventory utility for such robots.

The vmphyinv physical inventory utility inventories nonbarcoded tape libraries by performing the following actions:

Mounts each tape
Reads the tape header
Identifies the tape in each slot
Updates the NetBackup volume configuration

vmphyinv is a command-line utility. Additional information about the syntax of the vmphyinv command is available.

See the NetBackup Commands guide.