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Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management
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Filled Capacity Information Inadditiontotrackingmediahealthand
generatingreports,MLMdisplaysaFilledCapacitybargraphonthe
GeneralStatusscreen.Thisgraphshowstheremaininguncompressed
storagecapacityfortheMLM‐enabledmediaintheentirelibraryorina
specificpartition.ClickontheFilledCapacitybargraphtoviewtheMedia
LifecycleManagementReportscreen(Figure186onpage310).
Note: Untiladatacartridgeisdiscovered,eitherbyMediaAuto
Discoveryorwhenitisloadedintoandthenunloadedfroma
driveforthefirsttime,its datacapacityisnotincludedonthe
FilledCapacitybargraphshownontheGeneralStatusscreen.
Media Alert TheMediaAlertfeaturegeneratesasystemmessagewhena
tape’shealthisidentifiedaspoor(red)duringfiveconsecutiveloads.This
messageisonlygeneratedoncepertape.Aseparatesystemmessageis
generatedwheneveracartridgeexperiencesaharderror.
Tracking Non-MLM-Enabled Media MLMtracksthebasichealth
informationforLTOdatacartridgesthatarenotMLM‐enabled.Thisbasic
healthinformationisbasedontapelogdataretrievedfromanMLM‐
capableLTOdrive(LTO‐4orlatergeneration)whenthecartridgeis
ejected.Thedatapertinenttomediahealthisstoredin
theMLMdatabase
andusedtodeterminethemediahealthstatus(UsableorImpaired)
includedinMediaLifecycleManagementreports.
Figure 172 The General Status screen shows the storage capacity usage for the
selected partition.
Filled capacity