Spectra T200 - Using Media Lifecycle Management; Add Cartridges to the MLM Database

Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management Using Media Lifecycle Management
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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The following table provides information about different possible
scenarios for adding cartridges to the MLM database.
If you... Do this to add the cartridges to the MLM database...
Recently purchased your
library and are importing
cartridges into the library for
the first time,
1. Make sure that MLM is enabled (see Enabling MLM and
Configuring Global Settings on page 276).
2. If desired, enable PreScan (see Using PreScan on page 288).
3. Import media into the partitions to trigger the automatic
discovery process.
Important: Discovery cannot begin while the hosts are actively
loading cartridges into and unloading cartridges from drives. If you
import cartridges during this time, the library posts a failure
message stating that no drives are available. Either wait until the
library is idle before importing cartridges or manually start the
discovery process when the library is idle.
Have an existing library that
does not have the most current
BlueScale version installed
and:
 you began using MLM-
enabled Spectra Certified
LTO media when it became
available but before
BlueScale10.4 introduced
the MLM functionality in
the fall of 2008,
—OR—
 you began using a mixture
of MLM-enabled and non-
MLM-enabled Spectra
Certified LTO media before
the MLM functionality was
introduced in BlueScale10.4,
1. Update the library to the most current BlueScale version. See
Updating the BlueScale Software and Library Firmware on
page 441 for instructions.
2. Enable MLM for the library (see Enabling MLM and Configuring
Global Settings on page 276).
3. If desired, enable PreScan (see Using PreScan on page 288).
4. Discover the cartridges in the library using one of the following
methods:
 Import new cartridges into the partition to trigger the automatic
discovery process. If you do not have PreScan enabled, the
discovery process only checks cartridges that are not already in
the MLM database. If PreScan is enabled, all of the cartridges in
the partition are processed, regardless of whether or not they
are already in the MLM database.
Important: Discovery cannot begin while the hosts are actively
loading cartridges into and unloading cartridges from drives. If you
import cartridges during this time, the library posts a failure
message stating that no drives are available. Either wait until the
library is idle before importing cartridges or manually start the
discovery process when the library is idle.
 If you do not want to wait until you import new cartridges to
have the cartridges already in the library added to the MLM
database, manually start the discovery process (see Discover
Cartridges Manually on page 286).
 Use your storage management software to load each cartridge
into an LTO-4 or later generation drive and then unload it.
 Let the library update the MLM database as part of normal
operation. The information for each cartridge will be added to
the MLM database the first time the cartridge is loaded into and
then unloaded from an LTO-4 or later generation drive.
5.
When the initial discovery process is complete, disable the alert
about non-MLM-enabled media, if desired.