Use this dialog box to establish the control related options for a MediaAgent.
Enable MediaAgent
Specifies whether the MediaAgent is online or offline. Select this option to bring the MediaAgent online and make it available for use. Clear this option to take the MediaAgent offline. When a MediaAgent is offline, the libraries and drives controlled by the MediaAgent are inaccessible to the CommCell components.
The MediaAgent's enable status reflects its logical availability in the CommCell; it does not indicate hardware, software or communication failure.
Status
Displays the status of the MediaAgent. (Online/Offline).
Offline Reason
Displays the offline reason, when the Status of the MediaAgent is displayed as Offline.
Mark MediaAgent Offline for Maintenance
Specifies whether the MediaAgent is available for data protection, data recovery and auxiliary copy operations.
When selected, the MediaAgent will be unavailable for data protection, data recovery or auxiliary copy operations. However, the MediaAgent will be available to perform other administrative tasks on the devices attached to the MediaAgent, such as Full Scan, Drive Cleaning, etc.
This option is useful when you wish to perform administrative or maintenance related tasks on the devices attached to the MediaAgent.
Enable Application level Error Recovery during backups for write errors
Specifies whether the MediaAgent should perform error recovery by readjusting the tape position and re-write the last block when IO error occurs. This option maybe enabled when data protection jobs fail due to SCSI related write errors in the library.
However, note that extreme caution must be exercised while selecting this option as it severely impacts the performance of the MediaAgent. As most write errors are due to hardware failures, steps must be taken to fix the hardware instead of enabling this option. This option may be temporarily used to ensure that the current data protection jobs are successful until the hardware is fixed.
Note that the error recovery attempts may not be successful if the hardware errors persists.
Automatically detect WORM Tape Media
Specifies whether the MediaAgent must automatically detect a WORM media when it is used in a drive. Enable this option if you plan to use WORM media in the libraries attached to the MediaAgent.
Data Transfer
This option can be enabled when the MediaAgent is used for concurrent data protection operations from a large number of clients. For example, if you have 25 clients concurrently using the MediaAgent for 50 or more data transfer streams in a specific operation window, it is recommended that you enable this option Enabling this option will help to optimize the Operating System resources on the MediaAgent.
See MediaAgents - Supported Features, Agents and Devices in Books Online for information on the MediaAgents that support this option.
Device Detection
Specifies whether the MediaAgent software will automatically update the SCSI ID during a load/unload/read/write operation, if there are issues relating to access path mismatch or HBA fail over.
SCSI/SAN device scan interval (n) hours(s)
Specifies the time interval after which successive SCSI updates can be run on the MediaAgent when a failure is encountered during mount/unmount and read/write operations.
Specifies whether the drive controller is marked offline if the MediaAgent is not able to access the device during mount operations. The software automatically scans the devices and re-enables the drive controller when it becomes accessible. Note that if multiple MediaAgents access the drive, the drive would continue to be available to the other MediaAgents accessing the drive.
See MediaAgent Properties in Books Online for detailed information on this option.
Use Native device driver for data transfer for tape media
This option is available only in AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Tru64 MediaAgents. Indicates whether the MediaAgent will use the pass-through drivers (provided by the MediaAgent software) or the native driver to communicate with tape devices. Select this option to use the native driver.
Send pass-thru commands to Atape
Option to allow MediaAgent to send pass-through commands to Atape device drivers.
Enable retry on network errors
When enabled, the Robust Network Layer feature is enabled allowing the Job Manager to continuously check for network connectivity when loss of connectivity is detected.
The interval (in seconds) at which the Job Manager will continuously check for network connectivity.
The number of times the Job Manager will check for network connectivity.