Chapter 15: Maintaining Your Library
Monitoring the Library
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2 From the Drive Status dialog box, you can perform the following
tasks:
• Change the sorting of drives in the status list (for example, by
type or location) by clicking the column heading by which you
want the drives sorted. Repeatedly clicking a column heading
toggles between ascending and descending order.
• Mail, save, or print status information by using the Send button
(see
Mailing, Saving, and Printing Status Information on
page 548).
Monitoring
Connectivity Status
The following dialog boxes display status information about
connectivity:
•The IO Blade Status dialog box displays information about the I/O
blades.
Note: If the library does not detect at least one chassis
management blade (CMB) in the library, the IO Blade
selection does not appear on the menu.
•The Fibre Channel Status dialog box displays information about
the FC connections on the MCB and the I/O blades (if any exist).
Control Path Reports if a drive is a primary (CP) or a secondary (CPF) drive. The values are
Primary, Secondary, or None. It also reports which drive is currently the active
drive by displaying “(Active)”, example “Primary (Active)”.”
Data Path
Failover
Indicates whether data path failover is enabled or disabled.
Encryption Indicates whether or not encryption is set up as Application Managed or
Library Managed.
Partition Name The name of the partition to which the drive is assigned.
Usage Type Indicates whether the drive is configured as a Standard drive (used for data
read/write) or as aEDLM drive (part of a Library Managed partition for testing
media integrity).
Only LTO-5 or later drives can be configured as MeDIA drives.
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