The Activity Monitor topology view displays the state and configuration of the entire NetBackup system being administered. The Activity Monitor displays only robots and the drives that have storage units configured. If a device host has no configured devices, the device host does not appear in the Activity Monitor.

The topology view shows master servers, media servers, clients, and NetBackup storage unit devices. The view displays backup and restore activity, job failures, the services that are down, and drive state status.

The topology view displays the physical and the logical connections between devices.

Lines appear between a drive in use and the server that uses it. For example, lines appear between a media server and a device that runs a job for the server.

Robots and drives are represented as connected to a media server. Drives that are physically located in a robot appear directly beneath the robot. Stand-alone drives are represented as individual drive objects.