User Guide

The MM Admin Interface
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Terms
The following terms apply to Media Management:
■ Vault—Any identifiable storage area or location that you define.
■ Slot—When a tape volume is vaulted, virtual slots in a vault are assigned. Each
slot is used to store one tape volume.
■ Schedule—Determines when a tape volume should be placed in, or removed,
from a vault.
■ Rotation—Determines when to move tape volumes and is associated with a
schedule. Each rotation you define points to a vault.
■ Vault Criteria Descriptor (VCD)—Defines the controlling data set you want to
use for the selected tape volume. You can choose the controlling data set by
media name or file name, or you can select an individual media as the
controlling data set.
■ Vault cycle—The actual movement of tape volumes. You must describe the
vault, the tape volumes, and the rules for tape volume movement by creating
a Vault Criteria Descriptor (VCD) record. MM Admin uses this information to
execute a vault cycle when movement is scheduled.
■ Reports—Each time a vault cycle is executed, five reports are generated before
another vault cycle can be initiated. Two of these reports, the Shipping Content
Report and Receiving Content Report, provide detailed records of the result of
the cycle and the current location of your tape volumes. An Inventory Report
is also available, which you can generate at any time.
The MM Admin Interface
The MM Admin interface is designed to make vault creation, scheduling, VCD
creation, rotation, and report creation easy. The tools provided by MM Admin
allow you to establish the vaulting policy needed for complete Media
Management.
The MM Admin workspace includes a menu bar, the main MM Admin toolbar,
and the MM management window. The left pane of the MM Management window
displays the MM primary management server in a tree structure for easy
navigation. The right pane displays information related to the object selected in the
left pane. It also displays any output messages and reports generated during your
MM Admin session.