How does one integrate RMAN with third-party Media Managers?

The following Media Management Software Vendors have integrated their media management software with RMAN(Oracle Recovery Manager):

• Veritas NetBackup - http://www.veritas.com/
• EMC Data Manager (EDM) - http://www.emc.com/
• HP OMNIBack/ DataProtector - http://www.hp.com/
• IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (formerly ADSM) - http://www.tivoli.com/storage/
• Legato Networker - http://www.legato.com/
• ManageIT Backup and Recovery - http://www.ca.com/manageit/
• Sterling Software's SAMS:Alexandria (formerly from Spectralogic) - http://www.sterling.com/sams/
• SUN's Solstice Backup - http://www.sun.com/storage/software/backup.html
• CommVault Galaxy - http://www.commvault.com/
  etc...

The above Media Management Vendors will provide first line technical support (and installation guides) for their respective products.

A complete list of supported Media Management Vendors can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/bsp.htm

When allocating channels one can specify Media Management spesific parameters. Here are some examples:

Netbackup on Solaris:
allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS='SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so.1';

Netbackup on Windows:
allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_TAPE' send "NB_ORA_CLIENT=client_machine_name";

Omniback DataProtector on HP-UX:
allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS='SBT_LIBRARY= /opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.sl';

Omniback DataProtector on HP-UX:
allocate channel 'dev_1' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=orcl,OB2BARLIST=machinename_orcl_archlogs)';