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  2. NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
  4. Managing the Fibre Channel ports
  5. Discovering attached devices
NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

Discovering attached devices

The appliance nodes scan for devices when they start. If you connect devices while the appliance nodes are running, use the following procedure to detect the newly connected devices.

To scan for new devices:

  1. In the NetBackup Flex Scale management infrastructure UI, navigate to Monitor > NetBackup > Services and select the media containers that you want to stop. Click Stop.
  2. Navigate to Monitor > Infrastructure > Fibre channel or from the NetBackup Flex Scale webui click Cluster Management > Infrastructure > Fibre channel.
  3. Select the ports for which you want to scan for devices and click Discover devices.
  4. Navigate to Monitor > NetBackup > Services. Start the media containers.

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