HP Tape Library Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- hp tape library configuration guide
- Configuration
- Configuring the Host System
- Windows NT
- Sun Solaris
- HP-UX Hosts
- Table 1 Drivers Needed
- Installing the Pass-Through Driver
- HSC or PCI Pass-Through Driver Installation
- 1. Run SAM.
- 2. Select Kernel Config, and press Return.
- 3. Select Drivers, and press Return.
- 4. Select sctl.
- 5. From the Menu Bar, select Actions. Select Add Drivers to Kernel, and press Return.
- 6. From the Menu Bar, select Actions. Select Create New Kernel, and press Return.
- 7. At the Are you sure prompt, respond Yes. Press Return.
- 8. After the status messages, select OK. Press Return. The system reboots.
- 1. Run SAM.
- Creating a Device File for the Robotics Controller
- Verifying the Installation
- Table 1 Drivers Needed
- MPE/iX Hosts
- Requirements
- Configuring the Host
- 1. Power on the library and host. Run ODE at the ISL prompt: ISL>ODE
- 2. Identify the device path through RUN MAPPER: ODE> RUN MAPPER ***STARTING EXECUTION OF MAPPER**...
- 3. Boot the system. At the MPE prompt, run sysgen and start the io section: sysgen SYSGEN version...
- 4. If not already configured, configure the differential card and the pseudo/target level of the ...
- 5. Configure the robotics controller and the drives (the pass-thru driver): io> adev 30 id=HPA466...
- 6. Verify the bindings between PATH, LDEV number, ID, PMGR (device drivers), and LMGR attributes ...
- a. Verify the binding for the device adapter (the fw/differential dam): io> lpath 10/4/4.0.0 PATH...
- b. Verify the binding for the targets (the transparent dm): io> lpath 10/4/4.0 PATH: 10/4/4.0 LDE...
- c. Verify the binding for the robotics controller (the pass-thru driver): io> lpath 10/4/4.0.0 PA...
- d. Verify the binding for the tape drives (the differential tape dm): io> lpath 10/4/4.1.0 PATH: ...
- e. To configure the Storage Node on the NetWorker server, verify the ldev specifications: io> Ide...
- a. Hold the configuration changes: io> hold
- b. Exit the io section: io> exit
- c. If you have followed the local convention for backing up the configuration file, keep the chan...
- d. Exit sysgen and reboot according to local convention: sysgen> exit
- 1. Power on the library and host. Run ODE at the ISL prompt: ISL>ODE
- Verifying the Connection
- Diagnostics
- Diagnostic support tools
- HP Library & Tape Tools
- Support Tools Manager (STM)
- STM is the primary HP-UX support tool. Though this document provides general information about ST...
- There are three user interfaces, all in /usr/sbin/stm/ui/bin/:
- There are three basic operations in STM:
- STM saves detailed information in several logs:
- Table 4 on page24 shows which types of STM tools are supported on the robotic and tape drive com...
- Table 4 Supported Tool Characteristics
- Table 5 Drive Expert Tool Command
- Table 6 Robotic Controller Expert Tool Command
- Firmware Update Tool
- When started, the firmware update tool will examine the firmware revision of the current SCSI dev...
- If no files are found (or no compatible files are found), it will display an error message statin...
- If you have enabled the licensed firmware update tool, you can start it by selecting [Utility], f...
- Sysdiag
- Sysdiag is the MPE/iX support tool, and provides a consistent user interface for support of tape ...
- Sysdiag is a licensed-use tool, so a user must first know and enter a diagnostics password. Enter...
- :suplicen
- Use of sysdiag also assumes knowledge of the ldevs at which the components to be supported are lo...
- :sysdiag
- This command will bring up the Diagnostic User Interface (DUI) prompt. Two diagnostics are availa...
- SCSITAC and SCSIDLT are divided into parts called “sections.” To use either of these diagnostics,...
- DUI> scsitac ldev=6 sc=4
- SCSITAC contains three sections:
- Sections 1 and 2 perform tests on the library, report results, and return to the DUI prompt. Sect...
- Table 7 SCSITAC Interactive Commands
- Table 8 SCSIDLT Interactive Commands
22 Diagnostic support tools
• The Firmware Update tool allows the user to interactively
download new firmware to the device.
Tools -> Firmware Update -> Run
• The Utilities tool is not tied to one device and includes:
— LogtoolTools -> Utility -> Run... -> logtool
— Copyutil is used to copy disk data to another disk to
replace a bad disk.
Tools -> Utility -> Run... -> copyutil
• The Current Device Status tool provides general information about
a device and what tools are available for it.
Select the device(s).
Device -> Current Device Status
Reviewing
Logs
STM saves detailed information in several logs:
• The Tool Activity Log contains testing details and errors for a
specific tool on a device. Review this log when a tool does not
complete successfully.
• Select device(s).
Tools -> <tool> -> Activity Log
• The Tool Failure Log contains hardware failure information.
Review this log if a tool does not complete successfully.
• Select device(s).
Tools -> <tool> -> Failure Log
• The Information Log contains information gathered by information
tools. Review this log after running an information tool.