User ’s Guide User ’s Guide User ’s Guide User ’s Guide Quantum Scalar i6000 Library Scalar i6000 6-66879-01 Rev A
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Contents Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product 1 Product Safety Statements................................................................................ 1 Mechanical Locks ....................................................................................... 2 Power Button on the Library’s Indicator Panel...................................... 2 Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Equipment................................... 3 Product Model Number...............................................
Expansion Modules ......................................................................................... 15 I/E Station Options .................................................................................. 17 Library Management Module ........................................................................ 18 Management Control Blade (MCB)........................................................ 20 Robotics Control Unit (RCU) ..................................................................
Interpreting Blade Status LEDs .............................................................. 83 Interpreting Drive Status LEDs .............................................................. 86 Interpreting Fibre Port Link LEDs ......................................................... 91 I/O Blade Fibre Port Link LED............................................................... 93 Interpreting MCB Port LEDs...................................................................
FC Host..................................................................................................... 184 SNW (Storage Networking) Drives...................................................... 188 SNW (Storage Networking) Host......................................................... 189 FC Host LUN Mapping ......................................................................... 195 Generating the LUN Mapping Report.................................................
Menus ....................................................................................................... 273 Toolbar ..................................................................................................... 283 Reading the Library Information Panel............................................... 284 System Status Buttons ............................................................................ 286 Understanding Location Coordinates.........................................................
Working With Connectivity .................................................................. 376 Capturing Snapshots .............................................................................. 378 Updating Library Software ................................................................... 381 Updating Drive Firmware ..................................................................... 398 Teaching the Library (Configuration and Calibration) .....................
Tables Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Table 1 Cartridge Capacities in Library Modules ............................... 28 Table 2 LTO Drive and Cartridge Compatibility ................................ 31 Table 3 DLT Drive and Cartridge Compatibility ................................ 32 Table 4 Severity Levels Assigned to Tickets ....................................... 39 Table 5 Report Criteria ............................................................................
Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Table 18 Sampling of Media Type Identifiers ...................................... 116 Table 19 Return Media Identifier Behavior Example ......................... 118 Table 20 FC I/O Blade Port Settings ..................................................... 154 Table 21 Severity Levels Assigned to Issues ........................................ 168 Table 22 Show Details..............................................................................
Figures Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Figure 1 Front View of a Control Module and Expansion Module ..... 8 Figure 2 Front and Back View of the Control Module ......................... 14 Figure 3 Expansion Module with 24 Slot I/E Station........................... 16 Figure 4 Expansion Module with 72 Slot I/E Station.......................... 17 Figure 5 Library Management Module Boards..................................... 19 Figure 6 I/O Management Unit ............................................
Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Figure 17 Locations - Colors of I/O Blade Fibre Port Link LEDs ......... 93 Figure 18 Locations - Colors of MCB Ethernet Port LEDs ..................... 95 Figure 19 Locations - Colors MCB FC / SCSI Port LEDs....................... 97 Figure 20 Locations of LBX Terminator LEDs (Version 01)................... 98 Figure 21 Locations of LBX Terminator LEDs (Version 03)................... 99 Figure 22 Locations and Colors of Power Supply LEDs ......................
Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Figure 45 Get/Put Graphical Report ...................................................... 451 Figure 46 Scan Fiducials Graphical Report ............................................ 453 Figure 47 Picker Pivot/Reach Graphical Report................................... 455 Figure 48 Example Test Log Output ....................................................... 457 Figure 49 Top and Bottom Air Filters .....................................................
Chapter 1 1 About This Guide and Your Product This guide contains information and instructions necessary for the normal operation and management of the Scalar® i6000 library. This guide is intended for system administrators, operators, or anyone interested in learning about or using the Scalar i6000 library after its initial installation and configuration. Be aware that you must have administrator privileges to use many of the features that this guide describes.
Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product Product Safety Statements This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other equipment.
Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product Product Safety Statements picker to stop immediately. This button also removes power from the drives. WARNING Mercury Statement THIS POWER BUTTON FUNCTIONS AS A POWER INTERRUPT ONLY. TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL POWER BEFORE SERVICING OR IN AN EMERGENCY, TURN OFF THE CIRCUIT BREAKER ON THE POWER DISTRIBUTION UNIT, AND THEN DISCONNECT THE POWER CORD FROM THE ELECTRICAL SOURCE.
Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product Product Model Number contact your local government authority, your household waste disposal service or the business from which you purchased the product. Product Model Number The Scalar i6000 Regulatory Model Number is as follows: SCi6000. Explanation of Symbols and Notes The following symbols appear throughout this document to highlight important information.
Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product Other Documents you Might Need Other Documents you Might Need The following documents are also available for this product. These documents can be found on the product CD or at www.quantum.com/ support.
Chapter 1 About This Guide and Your Product Getting More Information or Help Updated Contact Info Getting More Information or Help Updated Contact Info More information about this product is available on the Service and Support Web site at www.quantum.com/support. The Service and Support Web site contains a collection of information, including answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs). You can also access software, firmware, and drivers through this site.
Chapter 2 2 Description The Scalar i6000 library automates the retrieval, storage, and control of tape cartridges. Application software on the host can use the library’s robotics to mount cartridges into tape drives and retrieve them without operator intervention. The library can be installed on a solid or raised floor. It has a standard 19inch rack footprint and can be placed in a standard server rack space.
Chapter 2 Description Figure 1 Front View of a Control Module and Expansion Module expansion module operator panel control module touch screen I/E station access doors The library is designed for ease of installation, configuration, and field upgrades. The minimum library configuration consists of one control module. You can add up to 11 expansion modules as storage and tape drive requirements change.
Chapter 2 Description Note Expansion modules in positions nine through twelve are storage-only modules and do not contain I/E stations or drives. For LTO, the maximum library configuration can accommodate • 1 control module, • 0 to 11 expansion modules • 102 to 5316 cartridges, • 1 to 96 tape drives. An LTO library I/E Station configuration can accommodate: • 1 to 8 24-slot Import/Export (I/E) stations in the control module and first 7 expansion modules.
Chapter 2 Description Library Features • I/O Management Units on page 20 • Cartridge Accessor on page 23 • Import/Export Stations on page 23 • Cartridges on page 25 • Cartridge Magazines on page 26 • Tape Drives on page 29 • Mixed Media Support and Rules on page 33 • Operator Panel on page 35 • Power System on page 36 Library Features This section describes several library features.
Chapter 2 Description Library Features Proactive Availability 2 Serviceability and Reliability 2 The library can alert you about problems before they occur. The library checks the complete data path at user-defined intervals to make sure that it is functioning properly before backups begin. The library also monitors its six major subsystems (drives, power, robotics, cooling, connectivity, and control).
Chapter 2 Description Library Features The FC I/O blade manages data path conditioning along the path between itself and the library drives. Data path monitoring automatically occurs at regular, configurable intervals. The I/O blade generates a RAS ticket if monitoring tests fail for two intervals. This indicates either loss of connectivity or drive failure. The FC I/O blades include the data path conditioning feature. Administrators can use the LMC to configure data path conditioning.
Chapter 2 Description Control Module The LMC provides additional monitoring of a SAN-attached library over the network to a management server by using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This includes library subsystem health and status information and early fault notification. For more information, see the Intelligent Libraries Basic SNMP Reference Guide. The library also supports the Common Information Model (CIM) server based on the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) on the MCB.
Chapter 2 Description Control Module • Operator panel • Power system The I/O management unit is optional for the control module. For more information about the I/O management unit, see I/O Management Units on page 20.
Chapter 2 Description Expansion Modules Expansion Modules Expansion modules enable the library to expand by adding space for tape drives, I/E stations, and cartridges. Each expansion module adds 300 to 456 LTO or 250 to 380 DLT cartridge slots, depending on the number of tape drives installed and whether an I/E station is installed (see figure 3 on page 16). The library’s maximum configuration includes up to eleven expansion modules for a total of up to 12 modules.
Chapter 2 Description Expansion Modules Figure 3 Expansion Module with 24 Slot I/E Station cartridge magazines I/E station 24 slot (optional) drive cluster (optional) drive side Scalar i6000 User’s Guide door side 16
Chapter 2 Description Expansion Modules Figure 4 Expansion Module with 72 Slot I/E Station magazines 72-slot I/E station (optional) drive cluster (optional) drive side I/E Station Options door side 2 An expansion module is designed for customers who have an increased need to import or export cartridges. An expansion module can have no I/ E station, a 24 slot I/E station, or a 72 slot I/E station.
Chapter 2 Description Library Management Module The 72- slot I/E station consists of two side-by-side 36-slot I/E stations that can be operate as one 72-slot I/E station or can be operated independently. Each 36-slot I/E station provides I/E capacity of 36 LTO cartridges in six removable magazines. SDLT cartridges are not supported in the 72 slot I/E station. Library Management Module The library management module (LMM) controls and manages library hardware and software components.
Chapter 2 Description Library Management Module Figure 5 Library Management Module Boards management control blade robotics control unit library motor drive Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 19
Chapter 2 Description I/O Management Units Management Control Blade (MCB) 2 Robotics Control Unit (RCU) 2 Library Motor Driver (LMD) 2 The MCB is the primary point of intelligent management in the library. The MCB stores firmware and configuration data for itself as well as most other intelligent components in the library. It also contains the LMC, which enables local or remote users or hosts to operate, configure, and monitor the library.
Chapter 2 Description I/O Management Units Figure 6 I/O Management Unit CMB FCB Blank EEB * CMB Control Management Blade * FCB FC I/O Blade * EEB Ethernet Epnsion Blade Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 21
Chapter 2 Description I/O Management Units Control Management Blade (CMB) 2 FC I/O Blades 2 The CMB performs unit status monitoring, including power and I/O present conditions, and internal network switch functions connecting I/O blades with the LMM. The CMB stores connectivity information for the I/O blades so that if you switch out an I/O blade, you do not have to reconfigure connectivity settings to drives.
Chapter 2 Description Cartridge Accessor Cartridge Accessor The cartridge accessor moves cartridges between storage cells, tape drives, and I/E stations. A picker is used to Get or Put cartridges in a storage cell or a tape drive slot. The picker moves along an X and Y axis and can pivot 180o. A barcode scanner on the picker assembly identifies cartridges located in storage cells. Import/Export Stations I/E stations enable you to import and export cartridges without interrupting normal library operations.
Chapter 2 Description Import/Export Stations configure their partitions with I/E slots beyond the number of physical I/E slots configured in the library. As a result, the host can export more media than previously allowed. Keep in mind that as Extended I/E slots are used, less storage slots are available. You will need to initiate move/import operations of tape cartridges into the extended I/E area for host access.
Chapter 2 Description Cartridges Cartridges Cartridges are stored in magazines within the library, as shown in figure 7. Figure 7 Example of LTO Cartridge Insertion into a Magazine magazine barcode LTO cartridge LTO magazine cartridge barcode location Each cartridge has an operator-attached, machine-readable barcode label on it for identification purposes.
Chapter 2 Description Cartridge Magazines Cartridge Magazines The cartridge magazine is a storage assembly that installs on the drive side or door side of the control module or expansion module, as shown in figure 8. It contains the cartridge slots and provides flexibility when adding storage cartridges to a module.
Chapter 2 Description Cartridge Magazines Figure 9 Expansion Module Magazine and Drive Locations in Control Module There are two types of magazines: one for DLT and another for LTO. Because the two magazines are the same size, they can be mixed in the library. DLT magazines hold five cartridges, and LTO magazines hold six cartridges.
Chapter 2 Description Cartridge Magazines Table 1 Cartridge Capacities in Library Modules Type of Cartridge Cartridges per Magazine Magazines per Control Modulea Magazines per Expansion Moduleb Control Module Cartridge Capacityc Expansion Module Cartridge Capacityd DLT 5 44 min/50 max 50 min/76 max 220 min/250 max 250 min/380 max LTO 6 44 min/50 max 32 min/76 max 264 min/300 max 192 min/456 max a.The minimum is based on having 11 additional drives installed.
Chapter 2 Description Support for WORM Support for WORM The Scalar i6000 library supports WORM (write once, read many) technology in LTO-3, LTO-4, and LTO-5 tape drives. WORM requirements include: • Cartridges • Firmware • WORM-supported LTO-3 tape drives • WORM-supported LTO-4 tape drives • WORM-supported LTO-5 tape drives WORM allows non-erasable data to be written once and provides extra data security by prohibiting accidental data erasure.
Chapter 2 Description Tape Drives CAUTION Although the physical library can contain more than one media domain or drive domain, you cannot have a mix of domain types within a partition (for example, LTO and DLT). A single partition can have a mixture of drive types and interface types within the same domain (for example, LTO-1 and LTO-2 with SCSI or Fibre Channel interfaces). The control module and expansion modules have upper and lower drive clusters. Each library must have at least one tape drive.
Chapter 2 Description Tape Drives 2 LTO Drives Five generations of LTO drives are supported, but they are not fully compatible as shown in Table 2.
Chapter 2 Description Tape Drives 2 DLT Drives Five generations of DLT cartridges are supported in the library, but the drives are not fully compatible as shown in Table 3.
Chapter 2 Description Mixed Media Support and Rules Mixed Media Support and Rules The library supports both LTO and DLT cartridges and drives in the same configuration, provided that you adhere to the following rules: • When purchasing a library with mixed media, the new orders must specify the base system technology (either LTO or DLT) and the number of magazines, the number of drives, and the number of I/E station magazines for each media type required.
Chapter 2 Description Mixed Media Support and Rules However, drives must be installed beginning in the lower most drive slot of the control module. Once the control module has 12 drives installed from bottom to top, you must move to the bottom drive position of the first expansion module. • The library must include at least one drive for each type of cartridge used. • Magazines must be installed in the control module beginning with the back rack (drive side).
Chapter 2 Description Operator Panel Operator Panel The operator panel is located on the front of the control module and consists of indicators and a touch screen (see figure 11). The buttons are for library control and power, and the indicators provide library status. Figure 11 Operator Panel Status indicator Power indicator/button Robotics Enabled indicator/button touch screen The touch screen is the library navigation point and provides access to the LMC.
Chapter 2 Description Power System Power System The library supports single and redundant power configurations. The single configuration has a single AC line input and single DC power supply. The redundant configuration has dual AC line input and dual DC power supplies. You can hot swap a power supply if you have a redundant power supply. You can hot add a second power supply.
Chapter 3 3 Troubleshooting Your Library This chapter describes how the library informs you of issues that it detects within its subsystems. It also provides information about working with tickets to resolve issues, running verifications tests to check whether they have been resolved, interpreting LEDs, viewing command history logs, and accessing Online Help.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library How Does the Library Report Issues? How Does the Library Report Issues? The library has advanced problem detection, reporting, and notification functionality. The library has many processors and sensors that monitor conditions and operations, such as temperatures, voltages, current, calibrations, firmware versions, and so forth. The first indication of issues is the status indicator on the indicator panel, as shown in Figure 12.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library How Does the Library Report Issues? • A repair page that provides corrective actions In most cases, tickets isolate field replaceable units (FRUs) that you must service or replace. Note Tickets can indicate failures or other serious problems, but they also can indicate warning conditions that you should investigate or other helpful information.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library How Does the Library Report Issues? Table 4 Severity Levels Assigned to Tickets Severity Level Description 3 (Warning) Indicates that a condition exists within a library subsystem that has little effect on system operations. Typical library operations can continue without immediate corrective action, but you should investigate the condition and correct the problem when possible. Warnings also can provide helpful information, such as indicating that a door is open.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library How Does the Library Report Issues? The meanings of these status indicators correspond to the severity levels described in table 4 on page 39. If a system status button indicates anything other than a Good state, clicking it displays a list of open tickets for the subsystem. To access tickets by using the system status buttons, see Working With Tickets on page 43.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library How Does the Library Report Issues? • Physical library configuration • Library states, such as physical library online or offline, partitions online or offline, or robotics enabled or disabled • Time stamps of recent activity • Report summary • Report details for the ticket The notification also includes a repair page attachment. This page provides a problem description and corrective actions you or a customer service engineer (CSE) can perform.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets Working With Tickets Tickets are your primary troubleshooting tool when you experience problems with the library. A ticket provides details and reports about the issue and library conditions at the time of the event. It also provides guidance on how to resolve the issue. If you are an administrator or a service representative, you can access the tickets through the LMC.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets Where did the issue occur in the library? 3 The Status Group field on the Details tab of the Ticket Details dialog box indicates the library subsystem that caused the ticket.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets Has the FRU been replaced before? 3 You can determine whether a specific FRU has been replaced in the past by examining the FRU SN field on the Details tab of the Ticket Details dialog box for the open ticket and the history tickets.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets The library reopens tickets that receive failed, degraded, or warning reports within 30 minutes of transitioning to the Closed or Verified state. If a Closed or Verified ticket remains free of failed, degraded, or warning reports for 30 minutes, the library locks them from transitioning back to the Open state. A failed, degraded, or warning report that is received beyond 30 minutes causes the library to open a new ticket.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets This option displays the same Tickets dialog box as the Tools→ Tickets command does. See Using the Tickets Command or the Tickets Button to Display Ticket Lists on page 49. From the ticket list, you can select a ticket to view ticket details, associated reports, and a repair page.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets The following table describes the elements on the Ticket List dialog box. Element Description In the Select Ticket area: Check Box To close multiple tickets, select each ticket you want to close by clicking the check box. ID The library-assigned identifier for the ticket. Description A summary description of the ticket.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets Element Description Posted Date The date and time on which the library created the ticket. The Details button displays the Ticket Details dialog box. For more information, see Viewing Ticket Details on page 52. 2 By default, the ticket list is sorted by ticket ID in ascending order with the oldest ticket at the top and the newest one at the bottom.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets • To display all tickets in the library, select All for state, severity, and subsystem. • To display all open tickets with a severity level 2 status for the drives and control subsystems, select Opened for state, 2 for severity, and Drives and Control for subsystem. • To display all tickets that users have manually closed for the robotics subsystem, select Closed for state, All for severity, and Robotics for subsystem.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Tickets The Ticket List dialog box appears. For descriptions of elements on the Ticket List dialog box, see Using System Status Buttons to Display Ticket Lists on page 47. 4 By default, the ticket list is sorted by ticket ID in ascending order with the oldest ticket at the top and the newest one at the bottom. To change the sorting (for example, by state or severity), click the column heading by which you want the tickets sorted.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Viewing Ticket Details Tickets provide detailed information about the ticket itself, the reports that are associated with it, and a repair page that gives guidance for resolving the issue. These tickets provide important information about library conditions from which the issue emerged and helpful information for resolving it.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details The Ticket # area of the Ticket Details dialog box displays detailed information about the ticket. The FRU History Ticket List area lists all tickets that were ever opened in the past and that see the same specific FRU (based on the FRU’s location in the library) as the one reported by this ticket. The following table describes the elements on the Details tab. Element Description In the Ticket # area: State The current state of the ticket.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Element Description Duplicates The number of times that the library has reopened the ticket. If a ticket is in the Closed or Verified state and the identical problem occurs again within 30 minutes, the library reopens the ticket and increments the ticket’s duplicate count. If the library has not reopened the ticket, the value is zero (0). Tickets that are in the Closed or Verified state for more than 30 minutes cannot be reopened.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Element Description In the FRU History Ticket List area: ID The library-assigned identifier for the history ticket. Description A summary description of the history ticket. The description identifies the FRU that caused the ticket and includes reason text that describes the cause of the ticket. All tickets that appear on the Details tab, including the ones in the FRU History Ticket List area and the Ticket # area, see the same specific FRU.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details • Mail, save, or print ticket information by using the Send button (see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Ticket Information on page 70) • Determine whether the issue is resolved by using the FRU Test button. FRU Test is available only if the ticket’s FRU has an applicable verification test that you can run. (FRUs that belong to the Accessor, Picker, Drive, I/E Assembly, or Bar Code Label categories have applicable verification tests.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details The history ticket details appear in the Ticket # area. However, the list of tickets in the FRU History Ticket List remains the same as what the initial ticket displayed. This list does not change.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Viewing Ticket Details Reports 3 The library creates a key report for each issue that occurs. As updates to the issue occur, the library creates subordinate reports that it associates with the key report. Typically, you should examine the key report because it represents the earliest time at which the ticket reached its highest severity level. It often isolates the most significant problem.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details The following describes the elements on the Report tab: Element Description In the Reports Tree area: Report tree area Provides a hierarchy of report information that is associated with the ticket. Descriptions includes reason text that describes the cause of the report. Initially, only the highest level of the report tree appears.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Element Description Severity The severity level that is associated with the status group (subsystem). Possible levels are: • Failed • Degraded • Warning • Good FRU ID The identifier for the FRU. FRU Instance In libraries with multiple FRUs of the same kind, the specific FRU that caused the report. This field usually identifies a particular FRU by its location in the library (for example, [1,1,1,8,1,1] for a drive sled).
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Viewing Repair Pages 3 Repair pages provide problem descriptions and corrective actions that you or a CSE can perform. To display the repair page that is associated with a ticket, click the Repair tab on the Ticket Details dialog box. The repair page provides the following information: Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • The title at the top of the repair page is a brief description of the issue.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details • The Customer Service Engineer Actions section provides additional corrective actions that the CSE can perform. If you are a user, do not perform these steps. Contact technical support for assistance. Note Viewing Tape Alerts and Generating Media Integrity Analysis Reports 3 • The Technical Support Information section provides a comprehensive list of FRUs that could be involved.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details You can use these reports to cross-reference tape alerts for drives and tape cartridges over a specified period of time, in order to determine if the problem belongs to the drive or to a specific tape cartridge. Typically, tape alerts point to a drive problem if a specific drive exhibits tape alerts against multiple pieces of media.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details • If the drive serial number given in the ticket is invalid or if the drive is not present in the library, the view displays the message, “Invalid serial number or drive is no longer present”. 2 To change the date range, click the down arrow next to the date box and select the range you want.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details The Media Integrity Analysis tab displays the tape alert information available for the selected range. 3 To sort the lists, click the column heading you want to sort. 4 Go to Generating Media Integrity Analysis Reports on page 65. 3 Generating Media Integrity Analysis Reports This function allows you to generate reports using the criteria described in table 6 on page 77.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details To generate tape alert reports: 1 Do one of the following: • On the Media Integrity Analysis tab of the Ticket Details dialog box, click Report. • On the menu bar, click Tools→ Reports→ Media Integrity Analysis. The Report Criteria dialog box appears. 2 To view a report, select the report criteria described in the following and click View.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Table 5 Report Criteria Element Description Range Specifies the range of time to cover in the report. Choices include: • Historical • Current Month • Last Month • Last 3 Months • Last 6 Months • Last 12 Months • Last 30 Days (default) • Last 7 Days Grouping Determines which drive or tape cartridge to base the report.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Element Description Chart Determines the type of chart. Choices include: • Area • Bar • Bar 3D • Line • Stacked Area • Stacked Bar • Stacked Bar 3D • Pie • Pie 3D (default) The Report Viewer dialog box appears. The content and appearance of the report varies depending on the selected criteria.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 3 Click Preview. The report appears in the Media Integrity Analysis Print Preview window. 4 To view the next page of the report, click the Next icon on the toolbar. 5 To increase or decrease the magnification of the report, click the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 6 In the report viewer, you can perform the following tasks: a To save the report as an Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) file, click the Adobe PDF icon on the toolbar. b In the Saving Report to PDF dialog box, enter the appropriate information, and then click Confirm to convert the report into a PDF file. c To print the report, click the Print icon on the toolbar.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Note You can mail, save, or print ticket information from a remote client. However, you cannot save or print the information from the library’s touch screen. Ticket information that a user sends by using the Send button is essentially the same as the information that the library automatically provides in e-mail notifications (see Understanding E-mail Notifications on page 41).
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 2 Click Send. The Ticket Information dialog box appears. 3 Perform one of the following tasks: • To indicate that you want to send the information as an e-mail message to a recipient, select Email, and then either type an email address in the Email text box or select an existing address from the drop-down list. You can type a comment in the Comment text box to send with the information.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Running Verification Tests to Determine Issue Resolution 3 A ticket is always generated against a particular FRU when the library detects an issue. Therefore, the library provides FRU tests that you can run to determine whether the conditions that caused the ticket have been resolved. Running the FRU tests is an important part of ensuring that the system is working properly.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Note The FRU Test button is available only if the ticket’s FRU has an applicable verification test that you can run. The Verification Tests dialog box appears with the appropriate test already selected and ready to start. For details about the verification tests and how to run them, seeWorking With Verification Tests on page 430.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 3 Closing Individual Tickets To transition a ticket to the Closed state, perform the following steps: 1 Make sure that the Ticket Details dialog box displays information for the open ticket that you want to close. See Displaying Ticket Lists on page 46 and Viewing Ticket Details on page 52. 2 Click Close Ticket. The ticket’s state changes to Closed.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Generating the Tickets Report 3 The Tickets Report lets you see how many tickets occurred in a particular time period. You can choose to group tickets by subsystem, module, or FRU, and the results can be presented as a rollup summary or as a trend so you can see if the number of issues is increasing or decreasing over time. Also, the report results can be presented in different chart formats, such as bar graphs or pie charts.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Table 6 Tickets Report Criteria Options Criteria Description Range Specifies the range of time to cover in the report. Choices include: • Historical • Current Month • Last Month • Last 3 Months • Last 6 Months • Last 12 Months • Last 30 Days (default) • Last 7 Days Grouping Determines how tickets are grouped in the report.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details Criteria (Continued) Description Chart Determines the type of chart.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 4 Click View. The Report Viewer dialog box appears. The content and appearance of the report varies depending on the selected criteria. 5 When you are finished viewing the Tickets Report, click Close. 6 To close the Report Criteria dialog box, click Cancel.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details 3 Printing or Exporting a Report to PDF After generating the Tickets Report, you can print it or export it to a PDF file. 1 On the Report Viewer dialog box, click Preview. The Print Preview dialog box appears. 2 Do one or more of the following: Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • To navigate through the pages of the report, click Back or Next. • To increase or decrease the magnification of the report, click Zoom In or Zoom Out.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Viewing Ticket Details • To save the report as a PDF file, click PDF. Specify a file path and file name, and then click Confirm. 3 When you are finished working with the Print Preview dialog box, click Close. Note You cannot print reports or save them to a PDF file using the touch screen. 3 Exporting a Report to an E-mail or a Text File Instead of viewing the report as a chart, you can e-mail the report data to an e-mail address.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs 3 Saving a Report Template If you frequently generate the Tickets Report with the same set of report criteria, save the criteria as a template. Loading the template recalls the saved report criteria and lets you quickly generate a report based on the saved criteria. 1 On the menu bar, click Tools→ Reports→ Tickets. The Report Criteria dialog box appears.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Interpreting Blade Status LEDs 3 Each of the following library blades has a set of green, amber, and blue LEDs that indicate blade processor status, health status, and power control status: • Management control blade (MCB) • Control management blade (CMB) • I/O blade • Robotics control unit (RCU) • Library motor drive (LMD) Figure 13 shows the locations and colors of the status LEDs on the five blades that can be in the library.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Blade status LEDs provide troubleshooting information that you can use in conjunction with tickets that the library creates. However, the LEDs might not directly correspond to tickets. The LEDs can indicate a firmware or hardware problem so severe that the library cannot create or display a ticket. For example, if the MCB firmware becomes inoperable, the amber LED flashes at 1 Hz, but the library might not be able to display any related tickets.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 7 Explanations of Blade Status LED States LED Color Represents Possible States and Explanations Green Processor status • Solid off — blade’s main processor is not operating (or blade is booting) • Solid on — blade’s main processor is not operating (however, this does not apply to the LMD; solid on indicates that the LMD’s main processor is operating normally) • Blinks one time every second (1 Hz) — blade’s main processor is operating norm
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 8 Blade Status LED States - Normal Conditions LED Color State and Explanation Green Blinks one time every second (1 Hz) — blade’s main processor is operating normally (however, this does not apply to the LMD; solid on indicates that the LMD’s main process is operating normally) Amber Solid off — no errors are detected; blade’s PIP is operating normally Blue Blinks one time every 10 seconds (flash) — blade is powered on; operating normal
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Note The blinking codes described in table 9 on page 90 on page 133 are the same for Fibre Channel and SCSI drives in the UDS-2 drive sleds. Figure 14 shows the locations of the status LEDs and the Fibre Channel link LED on the rear of a UDS-2 drive sled.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Figure 15 shows the locations of the status LEDs and the Fibre Channel link LED on the rear of a UDS-3 drive sled. Figure 15 Rear View of Fibre Channel Drive Sled (UDS-3 LTO-4 and LTO-5 Drives) LTO-4 status LEDs: - top = blue - middle = amber - bottom = green fibre port fibre ports LTO-5 1 2 E port Table 9 on page 90 describes how to interpret the drive sled status LED activity that you might see on the rear of a UDS-2 or UDS-3 drive sled.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Figure 16 shows Ethernet Connected Drive Sleds.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 9 Drive Sled Status LED States (UDS-2 and UDS-3) LED Color Represents Possible States and Explanations Green Processor status • Solid off — drive sled’s main processor is not operating (or blade is booting) • Solid on — drive sled’s main processor is not operating • Blinks one time every second (1 Hz) — drive sled’s main processor is operating normally • Blinks 10 times every second (10 Hz) — identify mode • Solid on for three seconds, th
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 10 Drive Sled Status LED States - Normal Conditions LED Color State and Explanation Green Blinks one time every second (1 Hz) — drive sled’s main processor is operating normally. The green LEDs for all drive sleds that are operating normally blink together. Amber Solid off — no errors are detected; drive sled’s controller is operating normally. Blue Blinks one time every 10 seconds (flash) — drive sled is powered on; operating normally.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 11 Fibre Drive Sled Link LED States (UDS-2) LED Color Represents State and Explanation Green LIP and activity • Solid on — loop initialization protocol (LIP) has occurred. Amber Online and light detected • Blinks at irregular intervals — host command/data activity is occurring. • Solid on — the library has enabled the drive data bus; it can detect light through a fiber optic cable.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Note I/O Blade Fibre Port Link LED 3 A UDS-2 drive with no fiber optic cable plugged in is healthy if the link LED is solid off. A UDS-3 drive with no fiber optic cable plugged in is healthy if the LED is amber and blinking at regular intervals, indicating that the library has enabled the drive data bus, but no light is detected. The link LED for an I/O blade fibre port is located next to the port.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 13 on page 94 describes how to interpret the link LED activity that you might see. There are two different models of I/O blade: 6404 and 7404. LED behavior varies based on which model is installed in the library. Table 13 I/O Blade Link LED States Blade Model Possible Green LED States and Explanations 6404 2 gigabit/sec • Solid on — the I/O blade has established a proper link and is ready to use.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Interpreting MCB Port LEDs The MCB has LEDs for the Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and SCSI ports. 3 MCB Ethernet Port LEDs 3 The LEDs on the MCB Ethernet port indicate status and activity. Figure 18 shows the locations and colors of the MCB Ethernet port LEDs.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 14 describes how to interpret the Ethernet port LED activity that you might see.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Figure 19 Locations - Colors MCB FC / SCSI Port LEDs MCB port LEDs - left = green (belongs to SCSI port below) - right = green (belongs to FC port above) Interpreting LBX Terminator LEDs 3 The LBX terminator has two versions. Version 01 has four LEDs and Version 03 has six LEDs. For more information, see the Scalar i2000/i6000 Maintenance Guide.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Figure 20 Locations of LBX Terminator LEDs (Version 01) 4 3 2 1 Table 15 LBX LED Version 01 LED On/Off Combinations 1 2 3 4 Explanation Off Off Off Off Robotics are disabled, the access door is open, or the LBX terminator is misaligned. On Off Off Off The library has one control module and no expansion modules. On On Off Off The library has one control module and one expansion module.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs LBX Terminator Version 03 LEDs 3 The LBX terminator has six green LEDs that indicate the presence of modules in the library. Figure 21 shows the locations of the LEDs. Table 16 on page 100 describes how to interpret LED activity on the LBX terminator.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Table 16 LBX LED Version 03 LED On/Off Combinations 1 2 3 4 5 6 Explanation Off Off Off Off Off Off Robotics are disabled, the access door is open, or the LBX terminator is misaligned. On Off Off Off Off Off The library has one control module and no expansion modules. On Off Off On Off Off The library has one control module and one expansion module.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Interpreting LEDs Figure 22 shows the locations and colors of the power supply LEDs. Figure 22 Locations and Colors of Power Supply LEDs power supply LEDs - top (AC OK) = green - middle (DC OK) = green - bottom (FAULT) = blue Table 17 describes how to interpret LED activity that you might see.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Command History Logs Table 17 Explanation of Power Supply LED States (Continued) LED Color Represents Possible States and Explanations Blue (bottom LED) Fault • Solid on — indicates any of the following conditions: • Power supply output is outside of specifications • Current limit has been exceeded • Temperature limit has been exceeded • Fan failed while AC input is present and above minimum operating voltage • AC input is below minimum operating vo
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Command History Logs Viewing Command History Logs 3 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library or the appropriate partition. 3 Click Tools→ Command History Log. The Command History Log dialog box appears.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Command History Logs If logical serial number addressing is enabled on the Physical Library dialog box (Setup→ Physical Library), tape drives are listed according to their logical serial numbers. If logical serial number addressing is disabled, the drives are listed according to their physical serial numbers. Also notice that command history logs for the LMC and the controller LUNs are available only from the physical view.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Command History Logs A list of log files appears in the Command History Log dialog box. From this log-list view of the Command History Log dialog box, you can perform the following tasks: • Display the contents of a log by clicking the Open button (proceed to the next step) • Mail or save a log by clicking the Send button (see Mailing and Saving Logs on page 106) 5 Click a log file to highlight it, and then click Open.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Working With Command History Logs Mailing and Saving Logs 3 The Send button on the log-list view of the Command History Log dialog box enables you to send logs to e-mail addresses. If you are accessing the LMC from a remote client, Send also enables you to save the information to a file. Note • You can mail or save logs from a remote client. However, you cannot save logs from the library’s touch screen.
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Your Library Accessing Online Help • To indicate that you want to save the log, select Save, and then either type in the Save text box a path and a file name to which you want the information saved or click Browse to specify a location and a file name. Note The Save option is available to remote client users only. It appears grayed out on the touch screen. 3 To send, click OK. Accessing Online Help For further help, you can access the library’s Online Help system.
Chapter 4 4 Configuring Your Library You can use either the local or remote versions of the Library Management Console (LMC) to modify your library’s configuration. The Setup menu includes most of the configuration commands.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Running the Setup Wizard • Configuring Screen Saver Preferences on page 255 • Working With Data Path Conditioning on page 257 • About the Configuration Record on page 259 • Setting Aisle Lights on page 261 For a brief overview of the LMC, see Library Management Console (LMC) on page 271. If you are configuring your library for the first time, see the Scalar i6000 Installation Guide for information about performing an initial library configuration.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Enabling Licenses Prerequisites 4 Before you run the Setup Wizard, do the following: • Note the name and IP address of your network Domain Name Server (DNS) or the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for your network segment. • Verify that your network is attached to the library network connection. • Delete the default partition. Refer to Deleting Partitions on page 142 for more information.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Enabling Licenses Note Authorized service personnel are involved in the first two situations. However, any administrator can activate additional storage slots. 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 If you are not already working from the physical library, select it from the View menu. 3 From the menu bar, click Setup > Licenses. The Licenses dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 4 In the Enter License Key text box, type the appropriate license key. Note You do not need to highlight the feature before you enter a license key. License keys are not case-sensitive, so if you are using the library’s touch screen, enter the library key from the lowercase keyboard, which gives you access to the dash (-) character.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions A Library Managed Partition is like any other partition, except it is not visible to any backup applications or hosts. The LMP allows the library to be able to manage the partition, rather than the backup application managing the partition. The library uses the LMP to facilitate valueadded features like MeDIA (automated data integrity checking routine). There can be only one LMP in the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Note The library is licensed for either one partition or the maximum number of partitions, which is 16. For more information about partition licensing, see Enabling Licenses on page 110. Configuration controls, such as FC Host, SCSI Host, and SNW (Storage Networking) Host provide the means to permit host access to a particular partition. Multiple hosts can share a single partition, or a partition can be restricted to one exclusive host.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Media Type 4 The media type is a particular generation of tape technology. Several media types can exist within one media domain. Using LTO again as an example, within the LTO media domain is the LTO-1 media type, the LTO2 media type, and so forth. A media type has an identifier, chosen by the tape manufacturer or consortium, that enables users and libraries to distinguish between them.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions In Not Required mode, if the library does not find a valid media ID on a cartridge, the library allows it to be moved into or within the library as long as the I/E station magazine, storage magazine, or drive matches the media domain of the cartridge.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Table 18 Sampling of Media Type Identifiers (Continued) Media Domain Media Type Identifier LTO LTO-4 WORM “LU”as the last two characters in the barcode LTO LTO-5 “L5” as the last two characters in the barcode LTO LTO-5 WORM “LV”as the last two characters in the barcode DLT SDLT-320 “S” as the last character in the barcode DLT SDLT-600 “2” as the last character in the barcode DLT DLT-S4 “S4” as the last two characters in the bar
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Table 19 shows an example of how the return media identifier behaves, depending on the setting you choose: Disabled, Prefix, Suffix, and Pass Through. The bold, underlined portion is the media identifier.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The method you should choose depends on the circumstance and the level of control you want in allocating resources to the partition. In Automatic mode, the library assigns available system resources to create the number of partitions you specify. Automatic mode is not available if a partition already exists. Manual mode enables you to pick specific drives, storage magazines, and magazines within an I/E station to assign to a partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 1 Click Setup > Setup Wizard. 2 Click Next. The Setup Wizard - License dialog box appears. 3 Click Next.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions dialog box appears. 4 Click Create.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions - Step 1: Choose Creation Mode dialog box appears with Automatic selected by default. Note The Automatic radio button will be disabled if there are partitions already configured. 5 Click Next.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions - Step 2: Automatic Creation dialog box appears. 6 In the columns labeled Partitions, enter the number of partitions to create per media type. 7 Click Finish. The partitions are created. 8 Click Next.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The LUN Mapping dialog box appears. Creating Partitions Automatically 4 You can use the library’s Automatic mode to create partitions within limits based on licensing restrictions and available resources. Automatic mode is available only if no partitions currently exist. 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions – Step 1: Choose Creation Mode dialog box appears. 5 Select Automatic, and then click Next. The Partitions – Step 2: Automatic Creation dialog box appears. 6 In the Partitions column, type the number of partitions you want to create for each media/drive type. The maximum number of partitions that you can create is determined by the number of partitions you are licensed to create and the number of drives available.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 4 Click Create. The Partitions - Step 1: Choose Creation Mode dialog box appears. 5 Select Simple, and then click Next. The Partitions - Step 2: Choose Partition Properties dialog box appears. 6 Configure the following settings: Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • In the Name text box, type a name that describes the new partition. • From the Drive Domain drop-down list, click the appropriate drive domain.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Product ID setting controls the product ID string that is returned in a standard SCSI INQUIRY response. The library can report that it is a Scalar 24, Scalar 100, Scalar i500, Scalar 1000, Scalar i2000, Scalar i6000, or Scalar 10K. This feature can enable the library to be used with host applications that do not yet include the Scalar i6000 in a list of recognized devices.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions drive cleaning for the library. For more information about configuring drive cleaning, refer Configuring Drive Cleaning on page 214. Note Automatic drive cleaning should be enabled for partitions only if the host application does not support the coordination of drive cleaning. If drive cleaning functionality is enabled on the host application, do not enable automatic drive cleaning for any partitions in the library. 9 To continue, click Next.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 16 Click Finish. The Partitions dialog box appears again with the partition you just created listed. 17 Click Close. 4 Using Expert Mode 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Partitions→ Configure. The Partitions dialog box displays a list of partitions currently configured within the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions - Step 2: Choose Partition Properties dialog box appears. 6 Configure the following settings: • If you are creating a Library Managed Partition (LMP), do the following: Note To create the LMP, you need to have completed the following tasks: • Entered a Media Data Integrity Analysis license. • Ensure that MeDIA enabled drives are installed in the library, and • Ensure drives are connected to 7404 Fibre Channel Blade.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions b Go to step 7. • If you are not creating a LMP, do the following: a In the Name text box, type a name to describe the new partition. b From the Drive Domain drop-down list, click the appropriate drive type. c From the Vendor ID drop down list, select the vendor. d From the Product ID drop-down list, click the appropriate product type. The Product ID setting controls the product ID string that is returned in a standard SCSI INQUIRY response.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions • From the Return Media Identifier drop-down list, click either Suffix, Pass Through, Prefix, or Disabled. Depending on which setting you choose, you can control the use of the media type identifier in the volume serial number that is returned to the host. CAUTION After a media volume serial number has been reported to a host, changing the Return Media Identifier setting could cause the host to not recognize media within the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 12 To continue, click Next. The Partitions - Step 5: Select Storage Slots dialog box appears. 13 In the left column, select the location of one or more I/E station magazines. 14 To assign a storage slot, select the appropriate check box. You can identify a storage slot by its location coordinates. The number of slots available is determined by the drive media type. 15 To continue, click Next.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 19 In the Partitions - Summary Information dialog box, verify that the parameters you set are correct. 20 To create the partition, click Create. Note After you click Create, the Cancel button becomes unavailable. The Partitions - Completed dialog box appears. 21 Review the information to make sure it is correct. 22 If you want to view the drive information after creating the partition, click Next. 23 Click Finish.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Note This procedure includes instructions for downloading new drive firmware images. You can modify partitions from either the library’s touch screen or a remote client. However, if you want to download drive firmware images, you must do so from a remote client. To modify an existing partition, perform the following steps: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 6 To continue, click Next. The Partitions - Step 2: Choose Policy Settings dialog box appears. Note For LMP partitions, you can not modify these properties; all options will be disabled. 7 On this dialog box, you can modify the following settings: • For Media Type Checking, select either Enable or Disable. This setting is enabled by default. • From the Media Checking Policy drop-down list, click either Required or Not Required.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions Note Automatic drive cleaning should be enabled for partitions only if the host application does not support the coordination of drive cleaning. If drive cleaning functionality is enabled on the host application, do not enable automatic drive cleaning for any partitions in the library. 8 To continue, click Next. The Partitions - Step 3: Select Drives dialog box appears. 9 Select the location of one or more drives.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions CAUTION If you delete magazines that contain media, the media will be inaccessible unless you reassign the magazines to another partition. 17 To continue, click Next. If Extended I/E is configured, the Extended I/E Slots dialog box appears. Otherwise, the Partitions - Step 6: Configure Drive Firmware Autoleveling dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Partitions - Step 6: Configure Drive Firmware Autoleveling dialog box enables you to set up drives to participate in auto leveling operations. Drives are auto leveled whenever they are reset, such as when the library is power cycled or rebooted, and whenever they are added or replaced.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 20 Verify that the parameters you set are correct. 21 If the summary information is correct, click Modify. Note After you click Modify, the Cancel button becomes unavailable. The Partitions - Completed dialog box appears. 22 Review the information to make sure it is correct. 23 If you want to view the drive information after modifying the partition, click Next. 24 Click Finish. The Partitions dialog box appears again. 25 Click Close.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Manage Drive Firmware Images dialog box appears. The library has enough space for 20 MB (with a maximum of 8 images) of drive firmware images. In this example, “8.03 Megabytes Free” indicates that 1.97 MB of space is currently unavailable.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Select firmware image file to download dialog box appears. 3 Navigate to the location of the drive firmware image file (with either a.drv, .fmr, .E, or .img extension) you want to download, and then click the image file to highlight it. 4 Click Open. The download process copies the drive firmware image from the remote file system to the MCB.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Partitions→ Configure. The Partitions dialog box appears. 4 Click the partition you want to delete. Note You can delete only one partition at a time. 5 Click Delete. Note If the physical library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take the library offline and delete the partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Partitions The Storage Networking Partitions dialog box appears. 3 Highlight the partition you want to configure, and click OK. The Control Path dialog box appears. 4 Select the drive you want to configure as the control path.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up the Network Configuration The primary Control Path Drive you selected is highlighted in yellow. 5 Click OK. Setting Up the Network Configuration Make sure that your library is attached to the network before you use the Network Configuration command. CAUTION Note You must fully understand all network issues before you change the network configuration for an already configured library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up the Network Configuration • If IPv6 is enabled and you want to configure an IPv6 connection, click IPv6 Configuration on the Network Configuration submenu to display the IPv6 Network Configuration dialog. Proceed to Setting up IPv6 Network Configuration on page 148.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up the Network Configuration 1 Use the following table to assist you in completing the elements on the IPv4 Network Configuration dialog box. Element Description In the Host Settings area: DHCP If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is enabled on your network, select Enable to have DHCP automatically configure the library network settings. Enable makes the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway text boxes unavailable.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up the Network Configuration 2 Make the appropriate network configuration changes, and then click OK. A message appears that informs you that network connectivity will be lost temporarily, and asks whether you want to proceed. 3 Click Yes.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up the Network Configuration 3 As prompted, use the DHCP tab to enable or disable the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) auto configuration function. 4 Click Hostname to display the Hostname tab. 5 Use the Hostname tab to specify a library name that can be used for remote connections to the library. 6 Click Settings to display the Settings tab. 7 Use the Settings tab to view the current IPv6 configuration settings.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity A prompt appears informing you that network connectivity will be temporarily lost and asks whether you want to proceed. 9 Click Yes. Managing Connectivity The Connectivity command on the Setup menu enables you to access three connectivity-related commands for the library: Port Configuration, Datapath Conditioning, and FC Host Port Failover.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity The Connectivity dialog box appears. All components that provide FC and SCSI ports appear in the dialog box if they are detected. You cannot configure settings for the SCSI port on the MCB. The example above shows expanded levels for “MCB” and “IO Blade - 1,1,1,1,3”. 4 Click the highest-level items to show next-level items. 5 Click a port to highlight it, and then click Configure.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity For an FC port on either the MCB or an I/O blade, the Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box appears. You can configure two settings for an MCB connection and all settings for an I/O blade connection. The figure above shows an FC port configured for target mode and a loop preferred connection. a In the Loop ID area of the Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box, repeatedly selecting Soft acts as a toggle, checking and clearing the box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity on the MCB, the Speed area does not appear on the Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box when configuring the MCB FC port. The MCB FC port speed is always 1 Gb/sec. c FC Frame Size is specified by each receiving node and need not match any other node. The frame size is typically set to 2048. (You can use another frame size if it is required by a particular software application.) d FC ports support Private and Public Fibre Channel attachments.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity Table 20 FC I/O Blade Port Settings Port Loop ID Speed Frame Size Port Mode Connection Option Private/Public FC-1 Soft Auto 2048 Target Loop preferred Public FC-2 Soft Auto 2048 Target Loop preferred Public FC-3 Soft Auto 2048 Initiator Loop preferred Public FC-4 Soft Auto 2048 Initiator Loop preferred Public FC-5 Soft Auto 2048 Initiator Loop preferred Public FC-6 Soft Auto 2048 Initiator Loop preferre
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity To configure HPF, perform the following steps: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Confirm that there are two ports on the I/O blade in target mode and point-to-point connection. For more information, see FC Host on page 184. 4 Click Setup→ Connectivity→ FC Host Port Failover.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity The FC Host Port Failover dialog box appears 6 In the Feature Enable area, select Enable FC Host Port Failover, and then click Set to make the Configuration tab available. On the Configuration tab, settings are unavailable if the current state of the tab is set to Disabled. Be aware that there might be incompatibilities with channel zoning configuration on the I/O blade if you enable host port failover.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity • Link down error recovery mode sets the recovery scenario for all ports when port failure is caused by the port going offline for more time than the threshold specified in the Link down delay time text box. The only setting option is Require Intervention. • Link down delay time sets the timeout threshold before link down status applies. The default value is zero (0) seconds. There is no maximum value.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Managing Connectivity 1 On the FC Host Port Failover dialog box, click the Physical Ports tab. The dialog box shows you each target port on the I/O blade, the port’s state, and the type of failure that has occurred, if applicable. 2 Click the port you want to enable. 3 Click Enable. Note Enable is available only if the port is disabled. 4 To return to the main FC Host Port Failover dialog box, click Close.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library The Physical Library dialog box enables you to configure various operating modes: Enabling or disabling... Specifies whether the library... Automatic Teach robotic assembly will be automatically calibrated and, if necessary, configured each time the power cycles off and on, or when the library door is opened and closed.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library 3 Click Setup→ Physical Library. The Physical Library dialog box appears. 4 Select Enable in the Automatic Teach area to schedule automatic calibration and configuration of the robotic assembly when the library powers up or when the library door is opened and closed. Automatic Teach is disabled by default.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library Note The Logical SN Addressing area is available only to CSEs. You cannot enable or disable logical serial number addressing for drives. If a CSE enables this feature, the library assigns logical serial numbers to all drives in the library. Specifically, the library assigns a logical serial number to a drive in a specific location. This is not the serial number of the particular drive.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Specifying the Date and Time Background EKM Path Diagnostics are disabled by default for QEKM configurations; Background EKM Path Diagnostics are enabled by default for SKM configurations. Note Enabling EKM Path Diagnostics activates regularly scheduled Encryption Key Server Path Diagnostics to inform of Key Server connectivity or operational issues.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Specifying the Date and Time The Date and Time dialog box appears. 4 In the NTP section • If you choose to enable NTP, click Enable. The Date and Time sections of the dialog box are grayed out. • Type valid IP addresses for the Primary Server and optionally the Secondary Server. • Scalar i6000 User’s Guide If the DNS Server has not been configured in the LMC, type valid numeric IP addresses that are accessible from the library (example 111.11.11.111).
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring E-mail • • If the DNS Server has been configured through the LMC (Setup > DNS Configuration), type the valid alpha/numeric IP Addresses that are accessible from the library. You have the option of using one or two IP addresses. Go to step 7. If NTP is enabled and you no longer want to use this setting, click Disable. If you choose to disable NTP, you must manually set the date and time. Go to the next step.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring E-mail Use the procedures in the following subsections for: • Setting Up or Changing the E-mail Configuration • Testing the Current E-Mail Configuration Setting Up or Changing the E-Mail Configuration 4 To set up or change the e-mail configuration: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Email Configuration.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring E-mail 6 In the Account text box, type the name of a valid account on the SMTP server (for example, Jay.User). Note The Account text box is not available if None is selected in the Authentication field. 7 In the Password text box, type the password for the account that you specified in the Account field. Note The Password text box is not available if None is selected in the Authentication field.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up E-mail Notifications Testing the Current EMail Configuration To test the current e-mail configuration: 4 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Email Configuration. The Email Configuration dialog box appears. 4 Type an e-mail address in the Recipient box of the Test Current Configuration area and click Test email.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up E-mail Notifications Table 21 Severity Levels Assigned to Issues Severity Level Description 1 (Failed) Indicates that a failure has occurred or a different serious condition exists within a library subsystem that requires immediate corrective action. In most cases, a hardware component is no longer functioning at an acceptable level or has failed. Typical library operations are either impossible or highly unreliable.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up E-mail Notifications 3 Click Setup→ Notification→ System Setup. The System Setup Notification dialog box appears with the Contact Information tab displayed. 4 Enter the contact information you want included in an e-mail notification if an error occurs in the library. 5 Click OK. A message is displayed asking you to perform a Save Configuration operation. 6 Click Yes. The Save and Restore Library Configuration dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up E-mail Notifications The Notification dialog box displays the Rules tab. This dialog box shows all notification recipients that are set up currently in the LMC. By default, the only e-mail address to which the library sends e-mail notifications (severity level 1 [Failed] issues only) is techsup@quantum.com (Quantum technical support), as shown in this Notification dialog box example.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up E-mail Notifications Note • Even though you can remove the Quantum technical support e-mail address so that Quantum does not receive severity level 1 notifications, Quantum recommends that you do not remove it. Also, do not include the Quantum technical support e-mail address for severity level 2 or 3 notifications. • The remaining steps in this procedure guide you through setting up new e-mail notification recipients.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Up Media Security Notifications 12 In the Choose Severity box, click the severity level you want to assign to this e-mail address. Note If you are using the remote client LMC, you can assign more than one severity level. While pressing the CTRL key, click the severity levels you want to assign. The touch screen on the library enables you to select only one severity level. 13 To accept this notification setup, click OK.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 3 Check the box to the left of your media security notification choice. 4 Click OK. 5 From the main console, select Setup > Physical Library. The Physical Library dialog box appears. 6 For Automatic Inventory, click Enable. 7 Click OK. Configuring Devices You can change the way library components appear to the hosts. The Setup→ Device command enables you to change the way system components appear to the hosts.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The Setup→ Device→ IDs command is available while viewing a partition. Use this command to set the SCSI ID for a SCSI-attached drive or the Loop ID for a Fibre-attached drive. All hosts that view the drive will see the same SCSI ID associated with the drive.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Device IDs 4 From a partition, you can change the SCSI ID for a SCSI-attached drive or the Loop ID for a Fibre-attached drive. For example, the default SCSI ID for a drive that you are installing might conflict with the assigned SCSI ID of an existing drive. You might be using an application that expects to communicate with a device at a specific SCSI ID, but that ID might already have been configured for use in another partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The drive shown in both of these figures is in the topmost of the twelve drive bays in a control module. The following figure shows its location in the control module. For more information about location coordinates, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Channel Zoning 4 Channel zoning, also called port zoning, is an optional feature that configures access to an entire Fibre Channel and all the LUNs on that channel for the exclusive use of a host or group of hosts on a single port. Channel zoning enables you to control access between specific target Fibre Channel (FC) ports and initiator channels on an I/O blade in your library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 5 Click Configure. The Channel Zoning Settings dialog box appears for the selected I/O blade. By default, all FC ports have access to all channels. 6 If you want to permit access, select the check box in the cell where the target port and the initiator channel meet. If you want to restrict access, clear the check box in the cell where the target port and the initiator channel meet.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices SCSI Host 4 During device discovery, a particular partition or drive could map to a higher LUN space than is optimal for a particular application. The SCSI Host command enables you to create a virtual private remapping of available LUNs for a specific SCSI channel-attached host. Use this command to make devices appear to the host as if they were at lower LUNs in order to optimize system performance.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The SCSI Host dialog box appears. 4 Click a SCSI port that you want to configure to highlight it. In the SCSI Host dialog box shown in the example, there is only one SCSI port available, and it is on the MCB. 5 With the port selected, click LUN Mapping.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The SCSI Host LUN Mapping dialog box appears in its default view. In this figure, all devices have been manually mapped. The new map locations appear in heavy black type in the ID/LUN/External LUN column. The previous (default) device map position of a mapped device is shown in gray type in the Internal LUN column.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 6 Drag the partitions that you want the SCSI host to manage from the Internal LUN column to the ID/LUN/External LUN column. In the default view, only partition names and the SCSI ID of the host connection are shown. In the Show Details view, partition name, product ID, vendor ID, and serial number of the host connection are shown. Note The Product ID setting controls the product ID string that is returned in a standard SCSI INQUIRY response.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 8 To save the mapping, click OK. The SCSI host map is automatically saved as part of the configuration. 4 Modifying SCSI Host Mapping When a device has been mapped, it is still listed, but unavailable, in the Internal LUN column. In the following figure, no LUNs are currently available for mapping because they have been mapped into the ID/LUN/External LUN column already.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Setting the View for the SCSI Host Device Column 4 Click View at the top of the SCSI Host dialog box. If you want to see product details, select the Show Details check box. If you want to see only the names of the devices available for mapping, clear the Show Details check box to toggle the display back to the default view. FC Host 4 The FC Host command enables you to manually modify host information and set LUN mappings.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 Accessing FC Hosts 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Device→ Access→ FC Host. The FC Host dialog box appears. Only the host’s port, blade, and World Wide Name (WWN) appear. Adding, Modifying, and Deleting FC Hosts 4 You can add and configure FC hosts without powering down the system.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The Add Host Data dialog box appears. 5 Use the check boxes under Select Blades to select at least one blade that the host will access. 6 Using the text boxes provided, provide the following required information: • In the Name text box, type a host device name. • From the Type drop-down list, click the appropriate host type by operating system. • In the Port text box, type the host device port.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 2 As necessary, change the information in the Name and Port text boxes, and then click the appropriate host type by operating system from the Type drop-down list. You cannot change the World Wide Name (WWN). CAUTION You also must make the necessary physical changes to the name, operating system, or port connection. 3 Click OK. Deleting an FC Host 4 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices SNW (Storage Networking) Drives 4 The SNW Drives command enables you to select the drives you want managed by the Storage Networking (SNW) feature. The drives selected can be configured so client hosts can be granted or denied access. Only HP LTO-5 generation or later drives are supported. Each drive selected will consume a SNW license. Selecting a Storage Networking Drive 4 1 Log on as an administrator.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 To select all drives, click the check box next to Select All Drives. 5 To select an individual drive, click the check box in the left column for the appropriate row. 6 Click OK. SNW (Storage Networking) Host Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 4 The SNW Host command enables you to create, modify or delete host access to the Storage Networking (SNW) drives configured in the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 Accessing the SNW Host Device 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 To ensure you are working from the physical library, from the main console, select View and click the name of the physical library. 3 From the main console, select Setup > Device > Access > SNW Host. The Storage Networking Host Configuration dialog box appears. 4 Select the host(s) you want to access by clicking the check box from the Host Configured table. 5 Click Access.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The Host Access dialog box appears. 6 On the top portion of the screen, expand the HOST LIST folder, and highlight the host you want to change. 7 From the Select Partition drop down menu, select the appropriate partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices This action filters the drives in the Drive Access table and show only those drives that belong to the partition selected. By default all SNW drives will be displayed. In the Partition Access section, the partitions are displayed. 8 Select drives. To select all drives in the Drive Access table, click the Select All Drives check box; to select individual drives, select the check box for each drive.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 Creating SNW (Storage Networking) Host 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 To ensure you are working from the physical library, from the main console, select View and click the name of the physical library. 3 From the main console, select Setup > Device > Access > SNW Host. The Storage Networking Host Configuration dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Note You can use this free-form text field to describe the connectivity or logical visibility, for example. This field has no configuration functionality. d In the WWN text box, type the host device World Wide Name (WWN). 6 Click OK. The Host Configured portion of the dialog box displays the host that you created. 7 To close the dialog box, click Cancel. 4 Modifying SNW Host Note SNW hosts can be reconfigured without powering down the system.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 5 Change the Name, Type, or Port. You can not change the WWN. 6 Click OK. The Host Configured portion of the dialog box displays the host that you modified. 7 To close the dialog box, click Cancel. 4 Deleting SNW Host 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 To ensure you are working from the physical library, from the main console, select View and click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup > Device > Access > SNW Host.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The FC Host LUN Mapping dialog box appears in its default view. This dialog box displays all partitions and drives connected to the blade to which the host is attached. Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide If you delete a partition that is currently displayed on the FC Host LUN Mapping dialog box, the internal LUN and any external LUN mappings for the partition will no longer appear on the dialog box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 5 Compare the default view with the Show Details view shown in the following figure. To change from the default view to the detailed view, see Setting the View for the SCSI Host Device Column on page 184. In this figure, the Internal LUN column has been scrolled down. The Show Details view for partitions shows the partition name, product ID, vendor ID, and the serial number of the partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Table 22 Show Details Descriptor Description Partition Name Name assigned during partition creation process. Product ID The Product ID setting controls the product ID string that is returned in a standard SCSI INQUIRY response. The library can report that it is a Scalar 24, Scalar i500, Scalar 100, Scalar 1000, Scalar i2000, Scalar i6000, or Scalar 10K.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The following table describes the descriptors that appear in the Show Details view for drives. Table 23 Descriptors Descriptor Description [Number] [Connection Type] [Port Connection] [LUN] [Fibre or SCSI] [Port Number]. Vendor ID Drive manufacturer. Serial Number Drive serial number. Partition Name of the partition with which the drive is associated.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices In the following figure, all devices have been mapped manually. The new map locations appear in heavy black type in the LUN/ External LUN column. The previous (default) device map position of a remapped device is shown in gray type in the Internal LUN column. 7 To save the mapping, click OK. The FC host map is automatically saved as part of the configuration.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 Modifying FC Host Mapping When a device has been mapped, it is still listed, though unavailable, in the Internal LUN column. In the following figure, the LUNs are not currently available for mapping because they have already been mapped into the LUN/External LUN column. The device that was formerly found at assigned LUN 4 is now found at assigned LUN 2. Drag it back into the Internal LUN column to make it available for re-mapping.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 4 Setting the View for the FC Host Device Column Click View at the top of the FC Host LUN Mapping dialog box. If you want to see product details, select the Show Details check box. If you want to see only the names of the devices available for mapping, clear the Show Details check box to toggle the display back to the default view. 4 Using the LUN Mapping Wizard LUN mapping is required to give hosts access to partitions and devices.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices Depending upon host operating system constraints, it may be necessary to reboot or reconfigure the host as a result of device map changes resulting from the use of the LUN Mapping Wizard. 1 Click Setup→ Device→ Access→ LUN Mapping Wizard. The LUN Mapping Wizard – Overview dialog box appears. 2 Review the LUN Mapping Wizard Overview, then click Next to continue. The LUN Mapping Wizard – Select Host dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The LUN Mapping Wizard – Select Partition dialog box appears. 4 Select a partition to configure and then click Next to continue. All available blades on the selected partition are listed on this dialog box. The LUN Mapping Wizard – Select Blade dialog box appears. 5 Select a blade to configure and then click Next to continue.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The LUN Mapping Wizard – Map/Unmap Devices dialog box appears. 6 Select the check box to map a device or clear the check box to unmap a device, then click Next to continue. The LUN Mapping Wizard – What Next? dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 7 Select one of the following and click Next to continue: • Map another blade – this allows you to map another blade on the same partition. • Map another partition – this allows you to map another partition on the same host. • Map another host – this allows you to map another host.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices • If you are satisfied with your LUN mapping changes and want complete the wizard process, click Finish. Your LUN mapping changes are finalized, and then you have the option of viewing the LUN Mapping Report. The LUN Mapping Change Preview Report – Print Preview dialog box appears. This dialog box displays what types of changes were made to all devices.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 9 On the LUN Mapping Change Preview Report – Print Preview dialog box, you can select the following: • To save the report as a PDF file, click PDF. Specify a file path and file name, and then click Confirm. • To print the report, click Print. Specify print options, and then click OK. • To navigate through the pages of the report, click Back or Next. • To increase or decrease the magnification of the report, click Zoom In or Zoom Out.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The Report Criteria dialog box appears. 2 Under Specify Report Criteria, click a grouping option. • Group by Host — The report lists the devices associated with each host. • Group by Partition — The report lists the devices associated with each partition. 3 Click View. The Print Preview dialog box appears.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The following figure shows an example of a LUN Mapping Report grouped by host.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The following figure shows an example of a LUN Mapping Report grouped by partition. 4 Do one or more of the following: • To navigate through the pages of the report, click Back or Next. • To increase or decrease the magnification of the report, click Zoom In or Zoom Out. • To print the report, click Print. Specify print options, and then click OK. • To save the report as a PDF file, click PDF.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices 6 To close the Report Criteria dialog box, click Cancel. Note You cannot print reports or save them to a PDF file using the touch screen. 4 Exporting a Report to an E-mail or a Text File Instead of viewing or printing the report on the Print Preview dialog box, you can e-mail the report data to an e-mail address. Or export the report data to a comma delimited text file (*.csv) for use in other programs.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Devices The Library Configuration - Print Preview dialog box appears. 2 Do one or more of the following: • To navigate through the pages of the report, click Back or Next. • To increase or decrease the magnification of the report, click Zoom In or Zoom Out. • To print the report, click Print. Specify print options, and then click OK. • To save the report as a PDF file, click PDF. Specify a file path and file name, and then click Confirm.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Drive Cleaning Note You cannot print reports or save them to a PDF file using the touch screen. Configuring Drive Cleaning When you create or modify a partition, you can specify that tape drives in that partition be automatically cleaned each time the drive requests a cleaning operation. For automatic drive cleaning to function, you must configure drive cleaning for the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Drive Cleaning Assigning Cleaning Magazines and Importing Cleaning Media 4 To configure the library for drive cleaning, first assign one or more magazines as cleaning magazines, and then import cleaning media. Note At least one magazine must be assigned for cleaning before you can import cleaning media. Also, only magazines that do not belong to a partition can be assigned for cleaning.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Drive Cleaning The Drive Cleaning Configuration dialog box appears. 4 Click a magazine slot or a piece of media to select it. Details about the selected slot or media appear under Information, including the type of media, barcode number, location, and the number of times the media has been mounted in a drive. 5 If the library has more than one module, click the arrow buttons to display the next or previous module.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Drive Cleaning 6 To assign a magazine for cleaning, click any slot in the magazine to select it. Click Menu, and then click Assign magazine for cleaning. The magazine is assigned for cleaning. 7 Repeat this step to assign additional cleaning magazines.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Drive Cleaning 3 Click the cleaning media in a cleaning magazine to select it, and then do one of the following: • To export only the selected piece of media, click Menu, and then click Export cleaning media . • To export all media in the selected magazine, click Menu, and then click Export all cleaning media in magazine. The cleaning media is moved to an available I/E station magazine.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Registering SNMP Traps Note If you try to unassign a cleaning magazine that contains cleaning media, a message appears asking if you are sure you want to continue. If you click Yes, any media in the magazine is not accessible until you add the magazine to a partition or assign it again as a cleaning magazine.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Registering SNMP Traps The Trap Registration dialog box appears. 4 In the Host/IP text box, type the iPv4 or iPv6 address or host name of the host client running of the external application. 5 In the Port text box, type the number of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port that you want to associate with the IP address or host name. 6 Click Create.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Registering SNMP Traps Removing an Application’s Trap Registration 4 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Trap Registration. The Trap Registration dialog box appears. 4 Click the IP address of the application for which you want to remove trap registration to highlight it. 5 Click Delete.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security Configuring Library Security You can change the library’s security settings, including enabling or disabling network services, enabling or disabling remote access to the library, setting up firewall access for server callbacks to remote clients, and enabling or disabling SNMP or SMI-S access. You can configure the library’s security while viewing either the physical library or a partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security Configuring Access for Network Services 4 The Services tab on the Security Configuration dialog box enables you to entirely prevent all external access to the library or allow access according to other security settings on the Security Configuration dialog box. It also enables you to allow or prevent access by SSH, SSHv1, and to allow or prevent external attempts to discover the library by pinging it.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security • ICMP — To prevent external attempts to discover the library by pinging it (by means of Internet Control Message Protocol [ICMP] Echo packets), select Disable. Using this setting can prevent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which can flood the library with pings and cause loss of network connectivity and services. • SSH — To prevent Secure Shell access to the library, select Disable. To allow SSH to access the library, select Enable.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security Configuring Access for Remote LMC Clients 4 You can use the LMC tab on the Security Configuration dialog box to configure the following options: • To allow or prevent remote LMC client access to the library • To set up firewall access for server callbacks to remote clients • To enable or disable service login • To set up the length of time before a session timeout 1 Click the LMC tab on the Security Configuration dialog box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security Note Enabling SSL can impact the network performance of remote operations (for example, downloading new library software). • Callback Port Range — To configure firewall access for server callbacks to remote clients, type the first port number of a range of ports that you want to be used for callbacks in the Starting text box, and then type the last port number in the Ending text box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Library Security Configuring Access for SNMP and SMI-S 4 The SNMP/SMI-S tab on the Security Configuration dialog box allows you to enable or prevent SNMP or SMI-S traffic across the MCB Ethernet port. 1 Click the SNMP/SMI-S tab on the Security Configuration dialog box. 2 You can change the security settings for any of the following items: • SMI-S — To allow SMI-S traffic (port 5988), select the Enable SMI-S check box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP • SNMP — To prevent all SNMP traffic across the MCB Ethernet port, select Disable. To allow SNMP Get operations, select Enable. If SNMP traffic is allowed, then SNMP v3 is always available. If you want to permit less secure SNMP access, select Enable SNMP v1 and v2. If you decide you do not want to use SNMP v1 and v2, clear the Enable SNMP v1 and v2 check box.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP You can configure the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) settings any time after the initial library configuration. Once you enable and configure LDAP, you can view your current LDAP settings using the LDAP menu. Note CAUTION LDAP Server Guidelines 4 Active Directory no longer requires Windows Services for Unix 2.5. Any LDAP configurations from i6.3.1 and earlier will not import into the i6.5 LDAP configuration.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP 4 OpenLDAP 2.4 You must install and run OpenLDAP 2.4 or later. The supported Objects in OpenLDAP 2.4 and above are of type “Person” or derived objects, and the group Objects must be of type “GroupOfNames”. OpenLDAP must be compiled with Overlay Support and requires the installation of “memberOf” overlay. More information can be found in the man pages of OpenLDAP with the “man slapo-memberof” command. Configuring LDAP 4 1 From the Setup menu, click LDAP.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP 2 In the General tab, you can enable or disable LDAP functionality: • To enable LDAP, select Enable LDAP. • To disable LDAP, clear the Enable LDAP check box. If you disable LDAP, single sign-on functionality will not be available on the library. Note 3 To configure or modify LDAP, use the appropriate tabs and set the following configurations: General tab • Server Configuration section • Primary: You must provide a primary IP address or DNS name.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP • Search Information section The Search Information section allows you to enter on the LDAP server a user name and password for a user who has sufficient privileges to search for user names. The user name is specified in distinguished name format. To use this feature administrative user rights are not required, but you must have the right to search user names in the LDAP directory. 4 Click the Access tab. Use this tab to configure LDAP authentication.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP • Library Access Groups section • User: This field contains a fully distinguished name of the groups to which all the library non-admin users belong. • Admin: This field contains a fully distinguished name of the group to which all admin users belong. Note: Non-admin library users also need to be members of the groups that match the partition names for which they are granted access.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Using LDAP You can use the Test functionality to simulate an LDAP login for a specific user and quickly discover what access rights the user has and to what partitions the user has access. Test User section • User: Type the appropriate User name. • Password: Type the user password. 7 To initiate the library authentication process to the LDAP server, click Test after providing the user name and password.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions A message box appears indicating that the success or failure of the LDAP connection. • If the connection failed, the error message contains information that you can use to resolve the issue. Click OK to return to the LDAP Configuration dialog box. • If the connection was successful, in the message box, click OK and continue. 9 To accept and save the library configuration, in the LDAP Configuration dialog box, click OK.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions Encryption Key Management (EKM) is a licensable feature. You must have an EKM license installed on your library in order to use the Encryption Key Management features described in this chapter. For more information on licensing, see Enabling Licenses on page 110 or Step 1: Enabling the EKM License Key below.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions Step 2: Configuring the SKM Server 4 Server settings are only used when a partition's encryption method is set to “Enable Library Managed.” For more information on partitions, see Working With Partitions on page 112. Note In order to synchronize properly, the TCP/IP and SSL ports on the primary and secondary SKM servers must be set to the same values.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions 2 At the Key Server Type drop-down list, select the server type (such as Q-EKM or SKM). 3 In the Primary SKM Server text box, type the appropriate host IP address. You can use an iPv4 address or an iPv6 address. 4 In the Primary port number text box, accept the displayed default value for the primary SKM server. The port for SKM is 6000, and this value cannot be changed.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions An Operation in progress dialog box appears, indicating the settings are being modified. Upon successful completion, the system returns to the main console. 4 Step 3: Configuring Partitions for Encryption You can use the Partition Configuration screen to change the encryption method used by a partition. Encryption on the Scalar Enterprise library is enabled by partition only.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions • If you are using both SKM and Q-EKM, you must separate the tape drives among the partitions so that each partition only contains tape drives supported by either SKM or Q-EKM. The library will assign the correct servers (SKM or Q-EKM) depending on the drive type in the partition.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions The Partition Configuration screen appears. Each partition's current encryption method is listed under Encryption Method. 4 If you want to change the encryption method on a partition, make sure that no tape drives in that partition have cartridges in them. If there are cartridges in the tape drives, you cannot change the encryption method.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions 7 To take the partition offline, click Yes. The dialog box is closed and you are returned to the main console. If the partition encryption settings were not successfully configured, follow the screen instructions to resolve any issues that occurred during the process. 8 In the EKM drop-down list, select the appropriate encryption option.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions Encryption and Using QEKM on the Scalar i6000 4 Supporting Encryption 4 For more information about installing and configuring the Q-EKM server and Q-EKM best practices, see the Quantum Encryption Key Manager User’s Guide (6-01847-01). The Scalar i6000 library supports encrypting LTO-4 or greater tape media using IBM LTO-4 or greater Fibre Channel drives only.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions You cannot select individual drives for encryption; you must select an entire partition to be encrypted. If you encrypt a partition, all encryptioncapable tape drives are enabled for encryption, and all data written to supported media is encrypted. Non encryption-capable tape drives will not be enabled for encryption, and non-supported media will not be encrypted.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions SKM Management 4 4 Sharing Encrypted Tape Cartridges If you are using SKM, you can share encrypted tapes with other companies and individuals who also use SKM for managing encryption keys. Each SKM server provides a unique encryption key for each tape cartridge that is encrypted.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions 5 The source administrator e-mails the file containing the wrapped encryption keys to the destination administrator. 6 The destination administrator saves the file containing the wrapped encryption keys to a location on a computer, and then imports the keys onto the destination SKM server (see Importing Encryption Keys). 7 The destination library can now read the encrypted tapes.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions The Communication Certificate Import dialog box appears. Under Server Status, the status of the primary and secondary servers appear. 3 Click Browse to retrieve the Root Certificate File. 4 Click Browse to retrieve the Admin Certificate File. 5 In the Admin Certificate Password field, type the password used when you generated the certificate files. 6 Click Browse to retrieve the Client Certificate File.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions Note If you have current certificates, they are listed in the Current Certificates section 9 Click OK. 4 Importing Encryption Certificates The encryption certificate contains a public key that is used to wrap (encrypt) encryption keys prior to transporting them to another SKM server.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions The SKM Encryption Certificate Import dialog box appears. . 3 Click Browse to locate the saved encryption key certificate file. 4 Highlight the file and click Open. 5 Click OK to import the certificate onto your SKM server. The dialog box closes and you are returned to the main console.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions The SKM Certificate Export dialog box appears. 3 Click Browse to locate the saved encryption key certificate file. 4 Highlight the file and click Open. 5 Click OK to export the file. The dialog box closes and you are returned to the main console. Importing Encryption Keys 4 Each SKM server provides a unique encryption key for each tape cartridge that is encrypted. In order to read tapes encrypted by a different (i.e.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions 1 Before starting this process, read and follow the sequence of steps outlined in Sharing Encrypted Tape CartridgesSharing Encrypted Tape Cartridges on page 245. 2 Receive the file of encryption keys from the source SKM server and save it in a known location on your computer. 3 From the Tools menu, select EKM Management > Encryption Key > Import. 4 Click Browse to locate the saved file of encryption keys. 5 Highlight the file and click Open.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions The Scalar Key Manager Encryption Key Export screen appears. 3 In Save As field, click Browse to save the encryption key file to a location on your computer. 4 In the Select Certificate drop-down list, assign the encryption key certificate with which you will “wrap” the keys. The drop-down list contains all of the encryption key certificates that you have ever imported onto your SKM server (indicated by the word “imported” in the list).
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions “native” certificate for disaster recovery in the event that one of your SKM servers failed and you needed to re-import all of your keys onto a new SKM server. 5 Select which SKM encryption keys to export from the following options: • Export Used — Exports all the keys that have ever been used to encrypt tape cartridges on the library.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library EKM Management Solutions 1 From the Tools menu, select EKM Management > Retrieve SKM Logs. 2 Select which log you want to retrieve. If a server is down or not connected, you will not be able to select it. • Primary SKM Server Logs • Secondary SKM Server Logs • SKM Encryption Key Import Warning Log Contains a list of keys that failed import.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Screen Saver Preferences Configuring Screen Saver Preferences Use the Screen Saver preferences tab to customize the images that display on the LMC screen when the library is not in use. The screen saver starts automatically if the library is idle for a specified amount of time. Note Screen saver preferences can only be configured remotely, not using the touch panel. 1 From the menu bar, click Setup→ Preferences.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Configuring Screen Saver Preferences 2 Do one of the following: • Select Default to use the default Quantum screen saver with standard settings. • Select Custom to change screen saver settings such as activation, movement, or images. • Select Off to disable the screen saver. (The current settings are cleared.) If you selected Custom, go to Step 3. Otherwise, go to Step 6.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Data Path Conditioning 7 Because you made system configuration changes, you are prompted to save the configuration changes. For more information, see Saving and Restoring Library Configuration on page 411. Working With Data Path Conditioning The Scalar i6000 provides an automatic means of verifying, monitoring, and protecting data path integrity between hosts and library drives. This feature is referred to as data path conditioning.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Working With Data Path Conditioning The Datapath Conditioning dialog box appears, showing all the I/O blades found in the library. Each blade is identified by name and by geographic location. 4 Click a blade to highlight it, and then click Configure. The Datapath Conditioning Setting dialog box appears. 5 In the Level area, select the appropriate level. The default level is Interface Test. To enable data path monitoring tickets, set the level to Device Datapath Test.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library About the Configuration Record The following table describes the functionality for each data path monitoring level. Level Name Functionality Description Interface Test Performs tests to verify that Fibre Channel controllers on I/O blades are responsive to commands. Device Datapath Test Performs tests at the Interface Test level, and also performs a device inquiry on each target device.
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library About the Configuration Record • Network information — Hostname, DHCP status, IP address, and IP, Netmask, and Gateway addresses • Partition information — Serial numbers, online/offline statuses, and numbers of slots, drives, and I/E slots • Drive information, for each drive — Location, partition, SCSI element address, online/offline status, vendor, model, serial number, logical serial number, firmware version, drive type, and interface type: • SCSI tape drives — SCSI ID
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library Setting Aisle Lights Setting Aisle Lights Aisle lights are optional on each module, and are mounted to the roof of each module to illuminate the inside of the library. To set the duration for aisle lighting: 1 From the main console, select Setup > Aisle Light Settings. The Aisle Light Settings dialog box appears. 2 Select a duration for the light to illuminate: 30 minutes, 1 hour, or Always Off. 3 Click OK.
Chapter 5 5 Running Your Library This chapter includes the following sections, which explain how to access and operate your library: • Logging On and Off on page 263 • Logging On From the LMC Applet (Web Browser) on page 265 • Connecting to Multiple Libraries on page 268 • Operator Panel on page 269 • Library Management Console (LMC) on page 271 • Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288 • Viewing the Library (Physical or Partition) on page 301 • Changing the Library’s State on page 303 • Online and
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Logging On and Off Logging On and Off You can log on and off locally by using the library’s touch screen. Or you can log on and off remotely by using a web browser to access the LMC applet on a host computer. Logging On From the Touch Screen (Local Client) 5 1 If the Scalar i6000 Logon dialog box is not already displayed on the library’s touch screen because the screen saver appears, tap the touch screen. The Scalar i6000 Logon dialog box appears.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Logging On and Off Note User names and passwords are case-sensitive. Select the Shift key to display uppercase letters and special characters. This enables you to type one uppercase letter or special character before the Scalar i6000 Logon dialog box returns to displaying lowercase characters. To type more than one uppercase character or special character, select the Caps key. The Caps key toggles between displaying uppercase and lowercase characters.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Logging On and Off Logging Off From the Touch Screen (Local Client) 5 1 Select Operations→ Log Off or select the Log Off button on the toolbar. 2 A message appears that asks you whether you are sure that you want to log off. Select Yes. The Scalar i6000 Logon dialog box appears. Logging On From the LMC Applet (Web Browser) 5 The LMC Java applet lets you access all features of the LMC from a host computer using a standard web browser.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Logging On and Off 5 Accessing the LMC Applet After verifying that the host computer meets the software requirements and has network access to the library, access the LMC applet and log on. 1 On the host computer, point your web browser to the IP address of the library. The first time you access the LMC applet it is downloaded to the host computer. Downloading the applet can take several minutes depending on the speed of the network.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Logging On and Off Note If you are logging on to the library for the first time using the default administrator account (admin), type password. After you log on, the library prompts you to change the default admin password. You must enter and confirm a new password. Passwords that are most secure include a combination of letters, numbers, and nonalphanumeric characters. Passwords must be eight or more characters in length. The word “password” is not available for use.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Connecting to Multiple Libraries Connecting to Multiple Libraries This feature allows you log in to multiple libraries, and switch from one library console to another without logging off. 1 From the LMC menu, click Connection > New. The Connect to Library dialog box appears. 1 Type or select the library server name or library IP address, and click OK.You can use either iPv4 or iPv6 addresses.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Operator Panel Operator Panel The operator panel on the library includes an indicator panel and a touch screen, as shown in Library Op Panel on page 269. Figure 23 Library Op Panel indicator panel LMC touch screen The indicator panel includes a Robotics Enabled button with its associated indicator, a Status indicator, and a Power button with its associated indicator. The Library Management Console (LMC) appears on the touch screen.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Operator Panel 5 Indicator Panel The Robotics Enabled indicator and the Power indicator each include a button. The Status indicator is not a button. These indicators do not report the status of communications with a host. Note Robotics Enabled indicator and button The enabled state does not mean that robotics are communicating with the host. It means that the robotics are communicating with the library controller.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 25 Status Indicator Indicator State and Explanation Green Solid on — normal. No attention required. Amber Blinking or solid on — fault. Attention required. Monitor the system status buttons. To determine whether the library has created any tickets, click Tools→ Tickets. Table 26 Power Indicator Indicator Operational Status Green Solid on — power on. No attention required. No color Solid off — power off. Attention required.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) • The menu bar provides access to all menu commands used to manage library functions. • The toolbar displays icons that represent the most commonly run commands. • The library information panel fills most of the main LMC display, presenting operational data from the current library, whether physical or partition. • The system status buttons provide current status information for the six subsystems of the physical library.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Figure 25 LMC (Remote Client With Partition View Shown) title bar menu bar toolbar name current activity status current date and time utilization summary data transferred configuration summary tape loads system status buttons Menus 5 The following seven LMC menus organize commands into logical groupings: • The Operations menu consists of commands, such as changing the library’s mode of operation, importing and exporting cartridges, lo
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) • The Setup menu consists of commands that you can use to set up and configure various aspects of the library, including partitions, devices, connectivity, network, physical library, users, notifications, date and time, licenses, e-mail, and SNMP trap registration. • The Tools menu consists of commands that you can use to maintain and troubleshoot the library. These tools enable you to work with RAS tickets, drives, and connectivity.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Partition View Touch Screen Remote Change Mode Admin, User1 X X X2 X3 Import4 Admin, User1 X X X Export4 Admin, User1 X X X Drives4 Admin, User1 X X X Load4 Admin, User1 X X X Unload4 Admin, User1 X X X Move Media Admin, User1 X X X Inventory Admin, User1 X5 X4, 6 X X System Shutdown Admin X Log Off Admi
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View IO Blade Admin, User1 SCSI Channel Touch Screen Remote X X X Admin, User1 X X X Fibre Channel Admin, User1 X X X Ethernet Blade Admin, User X X X IE Station Admin, User1 X X X Extended IE Slots Admin, User X X X X Slots Admin, User1 X X X X Media Admin, User1 X X X X Sensor Admin, User1 X X X X E-Mail
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Setup Wizard Admin Partitions5 Touch Screen Remote X X X Admin X X X Configure Admin X X X Control Path Admin X X X Device Admin, User1 X X X X IDs4 Admin, User1 X X X Access Admin X X X Channel Zoning Admin X X X SCSI Host Admin X X X FC Host Admin X X X SNW Host Admin X X X SNW Drives Admin
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View FC Host Port Failover Admin Network Configuration7 Touch Screen Remote X X X Admin X X iPv4 Configuration Admin X X X iPv6 Configuration Admin X X X DNS Configuration...
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Admin Server Configuration Partition Configuration Touch Screen Remote X X X Admin X X X Admin X X X Preferences Admin X X X Aisle Light Settings Admin X X X Menu Command (Continued) Encryption Partition View 1 Users can use this command only from partitions to which they have privileges.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Partition View Touch Screen Remote Tickets Admin X X X X Drives5 Admin X X X Connectivity Admin X X X Capture Snapshot Admin X X X Update Software9 Admin X X X X Update Drive Firmware Admin X X X X Teach5 Admin X X X Save/Restore5 Admin X X X Verification Tests Admin X X X Reports Admin X X X X R
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Usage Admin X X Security Admin X X X X Menu Command (Continued) Library Configuration Partition View Touch Screen Remote Library Explorer Admin, User1 X X X X Command History Log Admin X X X X IE Stations X Partitions Defragmentation X EKM Management Admin X X X X Import Communication Certificates Admin X X X X
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Privilege Level Physical Library View Test Selection... Admin Test Reports... Touch Screen Remote X X X Admin X X X Admin X X X X Export... Admin X X X X Capture Report... Admin X X X X [physical library name] (Physical) Admin, User, Guest11 X X X X [partition name] (Partition) Admin, User, Guest11 X X X X Views...
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 27 Menu Commands: Privileges and Environments Menu Command (Continued) About Privilege Level Physical Library View Partition View Touch Screen Remote Admin, User, Guest X X X X 1 Users can use this command only from partitions to which they have privileges. 2 Shutdown is available to administrators only. 3 Affected partition must be offline. 4 Physical library must be offline. 5 Physical library must be online.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) The Log Off button logs off the current user after confirming the logoff request. You also can log off by clicking Operations→ Log Off. For more information, see Logging On and Off on page 263. Reading the Library Information Panel 5 The library information panel, shown in Figure 26, occupies the central portion of the main LMC display. It provides you with a significant amount of dynamically updated status information.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 28 describes the areas on the library information panel. Table 28 Areas on the Library Information Panel Area Description Name The name of the current library. This is the library that appears with a check mark beside it in the View menu. First, the genre of library appears, i.e. physical or partition. Then, after a colon, the name of the library appears. Activity The current activity for the current library.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) System Status Buttons 5 System status buttons are located in the Overall System Status area at the bottom of the LMC (see figure 27). Figure 27 System Status Buttons in Good Status Each button represents a subsystem. Table 29 shows the library subsystems and some of the components that each subsystem represents. Each field replaceable unit (FRU) in the library belongs to one of the subsystems.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Library Management Console (LMC) Table 29 Subsystems and Their Components (Continued) Subsystem Components Cooling Cooling system components, such as fans for the library management module (LMM) and the I/O management unit Each button displays a status indicator that reveals a Good, Warning, Degraded, or Failed state as follows: Good (green) The library system is in working order; no problems or issues exist.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates You can click system status buttons to display additional information about the subsystems.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates The following list explains each location variable: • Aisle — there is only one aisle in the library. This value will always be 1. • Module — there are from one to twelve modules (the control module and up to seven expansion modules). The value will be between 1 and 12. • Rack — there are two rack designations inside each module. These will always be either 1 or 2, with 2 being the inside of the access door.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Figure 30 Section, Column, and Row Numbering for Rack 1 - LTO Cartridges column 1 2 3 4 row (individual slot) 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 section 4 5 7 X-axis rail counts as section 6 8 9 10 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 290
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Note • Tape drives that are installed in rack 1 of a control module or an expansion module replace storage in columns 1 and 2. Because drives are installed from the bottom to the top, you lose the storage starting in section 10 first. You do not lose the magazine in columns 1 and 2 of section 5. • Column 1 never contains storage in the control module.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Figure 31 Section, Column, and Row Numbering for Rack 2 - LTO Cartridges column 1 2 3 4 I/E station 1 2 3 cartridges in the I/E station are addressed by the library as part of column 3, sections 1 through 4 section 4 5 6 7 8 9 this column of magazines is not present in a control module 10 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 292
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Note In figure 31 on page 292, the five magazines shown in column 4, sections 6-10 do not exist in a control module. However, these magazines exist in expansion modules. Figure 32 on page 294 shows examples of location coordinates. These examples assume that the linear storage is located in aisle 1, module 1, and rack 1. That is why the first three numbers in the comma separated list are 1,1,1.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Figure 32 Example Location Coordinates 1 2 3 4 1 1,1,1,3,2,1 2 3 4 column 1 is not available in a control module 5 7 8 1,1,1,7,3,2 9 10 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 294
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates The LMC uses dialog boxes, like the one shown in figure 33, that enable you to specify cartridge locations. These coordinates are reported in parenthetical format with each element separated by commas. In parenthetical format, the location of cartridge 000002L2, shown in the Load Drives dialog box below, is (1,1,1,1,3,1).
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates • Drive number 1 is in the lowest section of the lower drive cluster. Drives are numbered from bottom to top. Figure 35 on page 298 shows the physical location of drive 9, which is the last drive listed in the Move Media dialog box shown in figure 34. Compare with table 30.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Table 30 Drive Location Coordinates 1 1-8 1 1-12 1 1 Aisle Module Rack Section Column Row Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 297
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Figure 35 Drive-side Location Coordinates module 1 rack 1 (back) column 1 section 12 drive cluster drive 9 (1,1,1,9,1,1) section 7 section 6 drive cluster section 1 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 298
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates I/O Blade Locations 5 The LMC displays I/O blade locations in parenthetical format. For example, see the Connectivity dialog box in figure 36. The location for the first I/O blade listed in the Connectivity dialog box is reported as (1,1,1,1,3). The location coordinates see aisle, module, rack, cluster, and bay.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Understanding Location Coordinates Figure 37 I/O Management Unit Bay Numbering bay 2 (CMB) bay 4 (second FC I/O blade) bay 6 (not used) bay 8 (second Ethernet expansion blade) bay 1 (not used) bay 3 (first FC I/O blade) bay 5 (third FC I/O blade) bay 7 (first Ethernet expansion blade) cooling assembly Note Bay 2 is used as the control management blade. Bay 1 is not used.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Viewing the Library (Physical or Partition) • Cluster — the cluster designation for the I/O management unit is always 1. • Bay — there are eight bays in the I/O management unit. If you look at the I/O management unit from the back of a library module, bay 1 is the bay on the lower left. Bay 1 is not populated. Bay 2 always contains a management control blade (MCB). No I/O blades can be installed in bays 1 or 2. Bays 3 through 5 can contain I/O blades.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Viewing the Library (Physical or Partition) After you select a library view, the library information panel area of the main LMC display shows status information and statistical details about the physical library or partition. Managing Library Views 5 The Manage Views dialog box enables you to quickly select between library views (physical or individual partitions) and take the physical library or a partition online or offline.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Changing the Library’s State Note You do not need to change the current library view to change the online or offline state of the physical library or a partition. The Change Library Mode dialog box appears. For more information about using this dialog box to change online or offline mode, see Changing the Library’s State on page 303. Changing the Library’s State You can take the physical library or any of its partitions online or offline.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Changing the Library’s State The Change Library Mode dialog box appears with the current state of the physical library or partition shown. • You can select the Online button to take either the physical library or a partition, depending on the current view, to an online state, which is the normal operating condition. In this mode, the robotics are enabled and all host commands are processed.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Changing the Library’s State Table 32 Library Functions Requiring Online or Offline State Function Physical Library Partition Operations→ Import Online Offline — Offline Offline — Operations→ Export Operations→ Drives→ Load Operations→ Drives→ Unload Operations→ Move Media Operations→ Inventory (partition view) Setup→ Partitions (create, modify, or delete) Setup→ Device→ IDs Tools→ Partitions Defragmentation Operations→ Inventory (physical library view) Tools→ Teac
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Working With Local User Accounts You can set up three levels of user accounts: guest, user, and administrator. Guests see only the main LMC display. Local Users can operate a partition, but cannot run diagnostic tools, which require access to the physical library. Administrators can access the entire physical library and all of its partitions.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts The Local Users dialog box appears. 4 To prevent guest login privileges on the library, you must click Disable Guest Login. You can toggle between Disable Guest Login and Enable Guest Login. Note For a list of commands that are available to users logging on to the library as a guest, see table 27 on page 275. 5 To create a user account, click Create.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts The Local Users - User Account Type dialog box appears. 6 In the Enter User Name text box, type a user name. Note User accounts with the names “guest”, “admin”, and “service” are reserved. You cannot use these names for user accounts. 7 In the Enter Password text box, type a password. Note Passwords that are most secure include a combination of letters, numbers, and nonalphanumeric characters.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Note For a list of commands that are available to administrators and users, see table 27 on page 275. 10 Perform one of the following tasks: • If you selected Administrator, the Finish button becomes available. To register your user account selections, click Finish, and then skip the remaining information in this procedure. • If you selected User, click Next. The Local Users - User Account Type - Assign Partitions dialog box appears.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Note Modifying Local User Accounts The Back button enables you to go back to a previous dialog box and make changes to your selections. 5 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Local Users. The Local Users dialog box appears.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Note If you want to modify guest privileges, you can toggle between Enable Guest Login and Disable Guest Login. For a list of commands that are available to users logging on to the library as a guest, see table 27 on page 275. 4 Click the name of the account that you want to modify to highlight it, and then click Modify. The following dialog box appears.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Note Passwords that are most secure include a combination of letters, numbers, and nonalphanumeric characters. Passwords must be eight or more characters in length. The word “password” is not available for use. It is recommended that you change all account passwords periodically. 6 If you want to change the privilege level of this user account, select the appropriate privilege level (Administrator or User).
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts The following dialog box appears. 8 On this dialog box, select the check boxes to the left of the libraries to which you want the user to have access, or select the Select All check box to give the user access to all listed libraries. 9 To register your user account selections, click Finish. Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide The Back button enables you to go back to a previous dialog box and make changes to your selections.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts Deleting Local User Accounts 5 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Setup→ Local Users. The Local Users dialog box appears. 4 Click the name of the account that you want to delete to highlight it. 5 Click Delete. A message appears that asks you whether you are sure that you want to delete the account. 6 Click Yes.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Working With Local User Accounts The Local Users dialog box appears. 4 To view the permissions for all users, click Permissions. The Users Permissions dialog box appears. . 5 Click Close to return to the Local Users dialog box.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Shutting Down/Rebooting the Library Shutting Down/Rebooting the Library Always perform the shutdown process before you remove power from the library. Shutdown prepares the library’s operation system and firmware for when you physically turn off power to the library. Shutdown makes sure that the library finishes all active commands received from the host and prevents the processing of any new commands. It also shuts down all partitions.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Powering Off the Library 3 Select Shutdown to do a complete shutdown and power off of the library, or select Reboot to do a reset of the library without powering off. A message appears that asks you whether you want to continue. 4 If you are sure that all I/O operations are finished, click OK. Note To recover from library shutdown, you must cycle power on the library (power it off and then power it on). SeePowering Off the Library and Powering On the Library on page 318.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Powering On the Library Powering On the Library 1 Make sure that you wait 5 minutes after powering off the library before you power it on. CAUTION Waiting 5 minutes is important because the power supply discharges for several seconds after you power off the library. If you attempt to power on the library too soon, the power supply will fault. 2 On the power distribution unit(s), set the circuit breaker switch to the up (I) position.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station • The library imports or exports a cartridge from the I/E station door. While the library is attempting to import or export a tape from a given I/E station slot, only the associated I/E station door is locked in the closed position. All other I/E station doors remain accessible. On a Get command from an I/E station slot, the associated I/E station door remains locked until the media has been successfully moved to its destination.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station The I/E Stations dialog box appears. Note I/E Station # column lists the I/E station number for each door. All single door I/E stations are numbered starting with 1 at the control module. All double door I/E stations are numbered with a number and a letter--for example 2A and 2B--the module number (1-8), with A as the left I/E station and B the right.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library When Robotics Are Not Ready 4 To return to the main console, click Close. When Robotics Are Not Ready When the library robotics are not yet ready to accept commands, aspects of the LMC are still available while other aspects are not. This situation can occur during startup, reboot, or while the library is running. During run time, for example, the robotics will become unavailable if someone opens and closes an access door without then pressing the Robotics Enabled button.
Chapter 5 Running Your Library When Robotics Are Not Ready Table 33 Menu Commands When Robotics Are Disabled Available Menu Commands When Robotics Become Disabled After Discovery Before Discovery Operations→ Change Mode (for shutdown only) X X Operations→ Log Off X X Monitor→ Drives X Monitor→ Connectivity→ IO Blade X Monitor→ Connectivity→ SCSI Channel X Monitor→ Connectivity→ Fibre Channel X Monitor→ IE Station X Monitor→ Slot X Monitor→ Media X Monitor→ Sensor X Monitor→ Users
Chapter 5 Running Your Library When Robotics Are Not Ready Table 33 Menu Commands When Robotics Are Disabled Available Menu Commands When Robotics Become Disabled After Discovery Setup→ Physical Library X Setup→ Users X Setup→ Notification X Setup→ Date and Time X Setup→ Licenses X Setup→ Email Configuration X Setup→ Trap Registration X Setup→ Security X X Tools→ Tickets X X Tools→ Drives X Tools→ Connectivity X Tools→ Capture Snapshot X Tools→ Save/Restore X Tools→ Verificat
Chapter 6 6 Maintaining Your Library The library includes advanced system monitoring and alerting mechanisms that inform you of library status and issues. It provides you with status information about various library subsystems and components. It also notifies you of issues it detects and guides you through diagnosing and correcting issues before problems interfere with backups.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library • Using Library Explorer on page 360 • Configuring and Testing Drives on page 365 • Working With Connectivity on page 376 • Capturing Snapshots on page 378 • Updating Library Software on page 381 • Updating Drive Firmware on page 398 • Teaching the Library (Configuration and Calibration) on page 408 • Saving and Restoring Library Configuration on page 411 • Viewing the Drive Resource Utilization Reports on page 420 • Setting Up Advanced Reporting Option
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Monitoring the Library The library can provide detailed information about the status of the library and its various components. You also can access statistics about the library and other helpful information, such as library and component serial numbers, port numbers, World Wide Names (WWNs), IDs, and firmware versions.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The System Status dialog box appears. The following table describes the elements on the System Status dialog box. Element Description Item A system item for which status information is available (hardware or system metric). ID If applicable or available, the serial number or other identifying number of the system item. Status Status information for the system item. The following table describes the items that can appear in the status list.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library . Item ID Status Description Library The library serial number The status of the library (Online or Offline). Library Uptime The library serial number The amount of time that the library has been up (in days, hours, minutes, and seconds). Media Moves The library serial number The number of media moves during the library’s history. Recovered Gets The library serial number The number of recovered gets during the library’s history.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library • Monitoring Drive Status 6 Mail, save, or print status information by using the Send button (see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Status Information on page 354). The Drive Status dialog box displays status information for tape drives in the currently selected partition. If you are working in the physical library, status information for all drives appears. You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description RAS The status of the drive as reported by the RAS system (for example, Good or Failed). Firmware level The firmware level of the drive. Media ID The barcode of the loaded cartridge. Location The location of the drive by means of a coordinate system. For information about location coordinates, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288. Physical SN The serial number of the particular drive.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 2 From the Drive Status dialog box, you can perform the following tasks: Monitoring Connectivity Status 6 • 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.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The IO Blade Status dialog box appears. See the following table for descriptions of the elements on the IO Blade Status dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description Type The type of I/O blade (“FC IOB” indicates an I/O blade). Location The location of the blade (see I/O Blade Locations on page 299). Firmware Version The firmware version of the blade. Serial Number The serial number of the blade. WWN The World Wide Name of the blade. CC LUN The Command and Control LUN (typically, the CC LUN is mapped to LUN 0).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The SCSI Channel Status dialog box appears. The following table describes the elements on the SCSI Channel Status dialog box. Element Description Port Index The port number. Location The location of the port (for example, MCB). Port Mode The mode of the port (Target or Initiator). Status The status of the SCSI Channel (Operational or Lost Sync). Host ID The SCSI ID. Termination Terminated or Not Terminated.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library • Mail, save, or print status information by using the Send button (see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Status Information on page 354). Viewing Fibre Channel Status Information 6 1 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 2 Click Monitor > Connectivity > Fibre Channel. The Fibre Channel Status dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description Status The status of the Fibre Channel (Operational, Lost Sync). WWPN The World Wide Port Name. Loop ID For arbitrated loops only, the loop ID. “-1” indicates that Soft is selected on the Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box (see Port Configuration on page 150). Connection The type of connection (Loop, Point to Point, Loop Preferred). Speed The speed in gigabits per second (1 Gb/s, 2 Gb/s, 4 Gb/s, or Auto).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The Ethernet Blade Status dialog box appears. See the following table for descriptions of the elements on the Ethernet Blade Status dialog box. Element Description Type The type of drive. Location The location of the drive by means of a coordinate system. For information about location coordinates, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288. Firmware Version The firmware level of the drive.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Monitoring I/E Station Status 6 The I/E Station Status dialog box displays detailed information about the magazine slots in the I/E stations within the currently selected partition. If you are working in the physical library, status information appears for all magazine slots in all I/E stations. You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition. 1 Click Monitor > I/E Station or use the I/E toolbar button.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description IE Station # All single door I/E stations are numbered starting with 1 at the control module All double door I/E stations are numbered with a number and a letter - for example 2A and 2B--the frame number (1-8), with A as the left I/E station and B the right. Magazine # The number of the I/E station magazine (numbered from top to bottom in the I/E station). Media ID The cartridge barcode or the word EMPTY.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library of the available slots. You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition. 1 Click Monitor > Slots. Note For Extended I/E, click Monitor > Extended I/E Slots. The Slots Status dialog box appears. The following table describes the elements on the Slots Status dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description In the Filter area: Location: Aisle The location of slots by aisle number. Location: Module The location of slots by module number. Location: Rack The location of slots by rack number. Location: Section The location of slots by section number. Location: Column The location of slots by column number. Location: Row The location of slots by row number. In the status list area: Media ID The slot barcode.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library • Mail, save, or print status information by using the Send button (see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Status Information on page 354). 6 Filtering Slots From the Status List You can specify the slots that you want to appear in the status list by selecting location, slot type, and state criteria from the Filter area of the Slots Status dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Monitoring Media Status 6 The Media Status dialog box displays detailed information about the media in the currently selected partition. If you are working in the physical library, you can view status information for all media. Because the number of media in a physical or partition can be quite large, you can select a subset of the available slots. You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The following table describes the elements on the Media Status dialog box. Element Description In the Filter area: Media ID The cartridge barcode (allows the asterisk [*] wildcard character). Media Type The type of cartridge (for example, LTO). In the status list area: Media ID The cartridge barcode. Media Type The type of cartridge (for example, LTO).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 6 Filtering Media From the Status List You can specify the media that you want to appear in the status list by selecting media ID and media type criteria from the Filter area of the Media Status dialog box. 1 Use one or both of the following elements to specify the media that you want to appear in the status list: • To specify a media item by media ID, type the exact barcode that is associated with a particular cartridge in the Media ID text box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Displaying Cooling Fan Information 6 1 To display detailed information about the library’s cooling fans, click the Cooling Fan tab on the Sensor Status dialog box. The following table describes the elements on the Cooling Fan tab. Element Description Name The name of the cooling fan sensor. Status The status of the cooling fan. If the fan speed is within normal operating limits, the status is nominal.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 6 Displaying Power Supply Information 1 To display detailed information about the library’s power supplies, click the Power Supply tab on the Sensor Status dialog box. The following table describes the elements on the Power Supply tab. Element Description Name The name of the power supply sensor. Wattage The amount of power in watts. Type The type of power (AC or DC). Location The location of the power supply within the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 6 Displaying Temperature Information 1 To display temperature status information for various library components, click the Temperature tab on the Sensor Status dialog box. The following table describes the elements on the Temperature tab. Element Description Name The name of the temperature sensor. Status The temperature status in the vicinity of the sensor. If the temperature is within normal operational limits, the status is nominal.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description Location The location of the temperature sensor within the library. Control management blade (CMB) locations are indicated by means of a coordinate system. For information about location coordinates, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288. 2 To view current information, click Refresh.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element Description Name The name of the voltage sensor. Status The voltage status at the location of the sensor. If the voltage is within normal operational limits, the status is nominal. Otherwise, a warning or alarm is indicated. Millivolts The sensor’s voltage reading in millivolts. Type The type of power at the location of the sensor (AC or DC). Location The location of the voltage sensor within the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Monitoring Users Status 6 The Users Status dialog box displays detailed information about users who are currently logged on to the library. You can perform this procedure while viewing either the physical library or a partition. 1 Click Monitor→ Users. The Users Status dialog box appears. The following table describes the elements on the Users Status dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Monitoring Partitions Status 6 If you want to see settings and information for a partition but do not need to make changes, view partition details. Unlike modifying a partition, viewing details does not require you to take a partition offline. 1 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 2 On the menu bar, click Monitor→ Partitions.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library Element (Continued) Description Media Type The type of media used in the partition (LTO-1, LTO-2, LTO-3, LTO-4, LTO-5, or DLT). Interface The type of interface used to connect to the host (FCor SCSI). #Drives The number of tapes drives in the partition. #Storage Slots The number of storage slots in the partition. #I/E Slots The number of I/E station slots in the partition.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library The Partition Details dialog box appears. This windows shows additional information about the partition, such as vendor, product ID, and serial number. 4 Click Close to close the Partition Details dialog box. 5 Click Close to return to the Partitions Status dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library • Fibre Channel Status • Ethernet Blade Status • I/E Station Status • Slots Status • Media Status If you are accessing the LMC from a remote client, Send also enables you to save the information to a file or print it. Note You can mail, save, or print status information from a remote client. However, you cannot save or print the information from the library’s touch screen.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 3 Perform one of the following tasks: • To indicate that you want to send the information as an e-mail message to a recipient, select Email, and then either type an email address in the Email text box or select an existing address from the drop-down list. You can type a comment in the Comment text box to send with the information.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Monitoring the Library 6 Mailing the Configuration Record To e-mail the configuration record: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 From the menu bar, click Monitor > Email Configuration Record. The Email Configuration Record dialog box appears. 3 Click Email and select the destination e-mail address. Note You can only specify one e-mail address. If you need to send the configuration record to multiple destinations, repeat this procedure for each e-mail address.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Saving the Configuration Record To save the configuration record: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 From the menu bar, click Monitor > Email Configuration Record. The Email Configuration Record dialog box appears. 3 Click Save and use the Browse function to specify the file name and location. 4 Click OK to save the configuration record to the specified location and close the Email Configuration Record dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Administrative users have access to the all the commands on the Tools menu. Use this menu to test the drives, as well as to capture a snapshot, to update firmware, and to use the Teach tool. The Tickets command on the Tools menu displays tickets that the library creates when it detects issues within its subsystems. For more information about the Tickets command, see Troubleshooting Your Library on page 37.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Using Library Explorer 6 You can use the Library Explorer feature to view a graphical presentation of all the drives, cartridges, and slots in the library. The Library Explorer can display all library elements according to physical location in any configuration, from one module to eight modules, and one drive up to the maximum number of 96 drives.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 1 From the Tools menu, click Library Explorer. The Library Explorer dialog box appears. 2 You can display library data using either the Select Filter options or clicking on a particular module in the Select Module area. • In the Select Filter area, you can search for and display specific criteria according to device type and location coordinates, or by Media ID.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • To search for a specific cartridge according to the cartridge's barcode, select the Media ID filter, type the barcode in the Media ID field, and then click Show. The Module dialog box displays the specific cartridge highlighted in red within the module where it is located. • • To search for a specific cartridge according to the element address, select the Element Address filter, type the element address in the field, then click Show.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 3 If you chose to search for an element by its address, or chose to locate a cartridge by its media barcode, your search result appears in red in the Control Module dialog box. 4 To return to the Library Explorer dialog box, click Close. The Library Explorer dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Understanding the Graphical Display You can access Library Explorer Control Module from both the physical and partition views, but the functionality in the physical view is limited. If you are in a partition view, you can view slots and drives pertaining to that particular partition. • The Library Explorer Module dialog box displays the current configuration of Rack One and Rack Two (Door - Inside view) according to the module you chose.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Accessing Library Operations 6 To access available library operations for a specific drive or slot, you can either click on Menu or right click on the drive or slot. You can perform the following operations, depending on what library view you are using. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library or partition.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Drive information on this dialog box is automatically refreshed whenever a drive is added or removed. 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Tools > Drives. The Drives dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The following table describes the elements on the Drives dialog box. Element Description In the Drive(s) area: Drive Type drop-down list Enables you to select the type of drives you want to list on the Drives dialog box (for example, LTO1 for LTO-1 tape drives). All lists every drive in the library. State The state of the drive (Varied On or Varied Off). Drive Type The type of drive (for example, LTO2 - FC).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Element Description In the Drive Settings: Fibre Channel Parameters area: Speed drop-down list Configures the speed of the specified drive. Possible speed settings are: • Auto (default) • 1-Gb/s • 2-Gb/s • 4-Gb/s For LTO-5, possible settings are: • Auto (default) • 2-Gb/s • 4-Gb/s • 8-Gb/s Connection Options drop-down list Configures the type of connection for the specified drive.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Element Description Identify button Causes status LEDs on the back of the specified drive to blink rapidly so that you can identify it. When you click Identify, a message appears that informs you that you can now identify the drive by the rapidly blinking LED on the back of it. After you find the drive, click OK to stop the rapid blinking. Self Test button For LTO-type drives only, runs a pass/fail test on the specified drive.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Drive Details dialog box appears. The Drive Details area of the Drive Details dialog box displays detailed information about the selected drive. The following table describes the elements that appear in this area. For descriptions of elements in the Fibre Channel Parameters and Control areas, see Configuring and Testing Drives on page 365.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Element Description Drive Model The brand name of the drive model. Vendor The drive vendor. Firmware Level The firmware version that is currently installed on the drive. Physical SN The serial number of the particular drive. Logical SN The logical serial number that the library assigns to a drive in a specific location. This is not the serial number of the particular drive (see Physical SN in this table).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Element Description RAS Status The status of the drive as reported by the RAS system (for example, Good or Failed). Fibre Channel Loop ID For Fibre drives only, the loop ID assigned to the drive. Fibre Channel Loop ID Mode For Fibre drives only, the way in which the loop ID is assigned to the drive (Hard or Soft). Number of Loads The number of loads during the drive’s history in this library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Mailing and Saving Drive Logs 6 The Get Drive Log button on the Drives dialog box enables you to send drive logs to e-mail addresses. If you are accessing the LMC from a remote client, Get Drive Log also enables you to save the information to a ZIP file. Note You can mail or save logs from a remote client. However, you cannot save logs from the library’s touch screen.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 2 Perform one of the following tasks: • To indicate that you want to send the log as an e-mail message to a recipient, select Email, and then either type an e-mail address in the Email text box or select an existing address from the dropdown list. You can type a comment in the Comment text box to send with the log.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • Configure drive cleaning by assigning cleaning magazines and importing cleaning media. (For more information on configuring drive cleaning, see Configuring Drive Cleaning on page 214.) After adding cleaning media to the library, manually initiate a drive cleaning operation. 1 On the menu bar, click Tools→ Drives to display the Drives dialog box. 2 Click a drive in the list, and then click Clean. The Clean Drive dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • To use cleaning media in an assigned cleaning magazine, click Use Media in Cleaning Slots. 4 Click OK. The drive cleaning operation is initiated, and the Clean Drive dialog box closes. Once the cleaning operation completes, the cleaning media is returned to the I/E station or assigned cleaning magazine. Note Working With Connectivity The system does not display a message when the cleaning operation is completed.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Connectivity dialog box appears with the MCB and all I/O blades in the library listed. 4 To display the ports for a specific blade, click the name of the blade (MCB or one of the I/O blades). The following example shows the ports for the MCB and the I/O blade at location 1,1,1,1,4. (For information about location coordinates, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 Perform one of the following tasks: • To reset either an entire I/O blade, an individual Fibre Channel port on an I/O blade, or the Fibre Channel port on the MCB, click the I/O blade or the port to highlight it, and then click Reset. • To cycle the power for an I/O blade, click the I/O blade to highlight it, and then click Power Cycle.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note • Because the snapshot requires analysis by trained Quantum personnel, send captured snapshots to www.quantum.com/osr when Quantum requests them. • Depending on the library configuration, capturing a snapshot can take as long as 30 minutes and the resulting file size can be large. Firewall file size limitations could prohibit you from mailing it. • You can mail or save snapshots from a remote client.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 If you want to continue, click Yes. The Capture Snapshot dialog box appears. The Standard option captures information about all library components. The Extended option captures a greater amount of detailed information. 6 Select Standard or Extended, and then click Send. The Email, Save or Print Table dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note • Typically, you should send the snapshot to Quantum technical support (www.quantum.com/ support) when requested to do so. To indicate that you want to save the snapshot, select Save, and then either type in the Save text box a path and a file name to which you want the snapshot saved or click Browse to specify a location and a file name. Note The Save option is available to remote client users only. It appears grayed out on the touch screen.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Before you can update the library with a library software update file, you must use the Update Software Wizard to download the file to the MCB.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note Rollback and reinstallation of current package options are viable recovery steps during a failed firmware upgrade, however these features should not be used as troubleshooting tools. Accessing the Update Software Wizard 6 The Update Software Wizard gives you access to all of the library’s software update operations. Note Before performing a software upgrade, we recommend that you shut down and restart the library. 1 Log on as service.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Update Software Wizard dialog box appears. This dialog box explains the operations you can perform by using the Update Software Wizard. 4 If you are ready to proceed, click Next. If you are not ready to proceed, click Cancel.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Select Library Software Package for Installation dialog box appears. The remaining procedures in this section start with the Library System Software Update dialog box. Installing New Library Software 6 To update your library software, you must download a new library software package to the library’s management control blade (MCB) from the remote client’s file system, and then install the downloaded software.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note Note Some upgrades will not be download upgrades but instead CF (compact flash) swap upgrades. If you are accessing the LMC using the remote client application, be aware that after you update the library software and the library restarts, you will not be able to view the LMC from the remote client application. You must update the client software to match the version of software you installed on the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Software Update dialog box appears. 2 Navigate to the location of the software file (with a .pkg extension) you want to download, click the file to highlight it, and then click Open. The Operation in Progress screen appears displaying the progress of the download.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The download process copies the software file from the remote file system to the library’s MCB. When the download process completes, the Library System Software Update dialog box appears again with the Install downloaded package option automatically selected. The version number of the software package appears at the end of the Install downloaded package option.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note If you downloaded a software package and then began this procedure without closing the Update Software Wizard - Library System Software Update dialog box, Install downloaded package is already selected. 2 Click Next. The estimated time for the installation is displayed. 3 Click Install. A warning message appears asking you to take the library offline. 4 Click Yes.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note The library automatically logs off other users so that they cannot perform library operations while the library software update operation is in progress. The Update Software Summary window appears asking if you want to continue. 5 Click Yes. The Software Update Progress screen appears displaying the progress of the installation. Real-time progress information appears under Progress Summary in the Description and Status columns.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note During the update, the Abort button appears dimmed and is unavailable. Do not interrupt the update process before it is completed. Interrupting the update process might cause the library to become unusable until its software is restored. Once 100% success has been achieved for all components, the library is shutdown. This process could take several minutes. 6 Once complete, the Software Update Progress screen appears, click OK.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Reinstalling Current Library Software 6 The reinstall feature enables you to re-establish the installation of the library software that is currently active on the MCB to the various remote devices, such as the RCU, I/O blades, and the CMB.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Update Software Wizard dialog box appears. 3 Click Install. Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • If the physical library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. • The library automatically logs off other users so that they cannot perform library operations while the library software update operation is in progress.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Software Update Progress dialog box appears. Real-time progress information appears under Progress Summary in the Description and Status columns. CAUTION Note During the update, the Abort button appears dimmed and is unavailable. Do not interrupt the update process before it is completed. Interrupting the update process might cause the library to become unusable until its software is restored.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions CAUTION Note Do not perform any library operations until the RCU is completely restarted. Before the RCU is restarted, the main menu Activity panel displays the message “WARNING: The Robotics is not Enabled”. This message indicates that the RCU is not yet ready. When the RCU is ready, the message disappears. 5 Bring the physical library online. a From the LMC, click Operations > Change Mode. b Select Online, and then click OK. 6 Click Help > About.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Update Software Wizard dialog box appears. 3 Click Install. Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • If the physical library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. • The library automatically logs off other users so that they cannot perform library operations while the library software update operation is in progress.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Software Update Progress dialog box appears. Real-time progress information appears under Progress Summary in the Description and Status columns. CAUTION During the update, the Abort button appears dimmed and is unavailable. Do not interrupt the update process before it is completed. Interrupting the update process might cause the library to become unusable until its software is restored. 4 After the update process completes, click OK.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions b Select Online, and then click OK. 6 Click Help > About. Validate that the components reflect the correct firmware version. Updating Drive Firmware 6 Before you install a new drive firmware image, you must download it to the library’s MCB from the remote client’s file system. You must perform the download from a remote client.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions You can use the Update Drive Firmware command from the Tools menu to update drive brick firmware on one or more drives by using either update tapes or drive firmware images that you have downloaded to the library. This section includes the following subsections: • Accessing the Update Drive Firmware Dialog Box on page 399.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Update Drive Firmware dialog box appears. From the Update Drive Firmware dialog box, you can update drive firmware by using either update tapes or drive firmware images that you have downloaded to the library. The table lists all drives in the library or, if you are currently viewing a partition, all drives in the partition.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions To update drive firmware by using downloaded firmware images, proceed to Updating Drive Firmware Using Firmware Images on page 403 below. To update drive firmware by using update tapes, proceed to Updating Drive Firmware Using Update Tapes on page 406. 6 Downloading New Drive Firmware Before you install a new drive firmware image, you must download it to the library’s MCB from the remote client’s file system.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The library has enough space for 20 MB (with a maximum of 8 images) of drive firmware images. If the check box for a drive firmware image is clear, you can delete the image by clicking it to highlight it, and then clicking Delete. 2 To download a new drive firmware image, click Download. The Select firmware image file to download dialog box appears. 3 Navigate to the location of the drive firmware image file (with either a .drv, .fmr, .E, or .
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Updating Drive Firmware Using Firmware Images CAUTION CAUTION If you are viewing a partition, drive firmware update operations affect drives that are within the partition only. • Before you update drive firmware during this procedure, make sure that tapes are not mounted in any of the drives.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 1 On the Update Drive Firmware dialog box, select Firmware Image. Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Drives that are not connected to I/O Blades are listed, since drives not connected to I/O Blades can be updated using FMR Tapes. Refer to Updating Drive Firmware Using Update Tapes on page 406.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 2 In the left-most column of the table under the Update Method area, select one or more check boxes that correspond to drives that you want to update with the same drive firmware image. Use the following rules to select drives: • Do not select drives that are currently loaded. • If you select more than one drive, make sure that they are all of the same drive type. • Click Select All to select all drives. (All drives must be of the same drive type.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Updating Drive Firmware Using Update Tapes It is important to verify that the library firmware version is compatible with the new drive firmware version. To determine the appropriate drive firmware, see the library’s Release Notes or contact Quantum technical support. If you need to update drive firmware by using update tapes, perform the following procedure.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Select Firmware Tapes dialog box appears. 4 Select the tape cartridges you want to use for the firmware update by checking the check boxes in the media table, and click OK. Note You can perform a firmware update only for drives of the same product (such as HP or IBM), and type (such as LTO-4 or LTO-5). 5 Click Start. A message Updating do not power cycle the drive is displayed above the drive table in red.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions CAUTION Teaching the Library (Configuration and Calibration) 6 The drive firmware image must be compatible with the drives that you will update with it. For more information, see the Customer Service Web site. The Teach command enables you to update the library’s stored configuration and calibration information.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The library automatically performs an inventory after it completes the configuration teach process. Note 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Tools > Teach. Note If the physical library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. The Teach dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Running Calibration Teach Starting the calibration teach process causes the library to assess the position and alignment of various library components through the use of calibration targets. Use this process to avoid cartridge-handling problems caused by rack, drive, or I/E station misalignments. Rack alignment calibration targets are tabs that are located on two special magazines in each drive-side and door-side storage rack.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 4 Select Calibrate. 5 Click Start. During the calibration teach process, the picker moves to the home position, which is X-Y coordinate position 0,0. Then, for each rack of each module, the picker moves to a magazine at the top and one at the bottom and stores those positions in coordinates relative to the 0,0 position. Teach results appear in the Results area when the process completes.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Types of Configuration Image Files 6 There are three types of configuration images that correspond to the Restore, Rescue, and Revert commands: • The restore image is stored on a remote file system and is created any time you use the Save command. You might restore the library’s configuration, for example, if the library’s locally saved configuration is lost because the compact flash memory on the Management Control Blade (MCB) is replaced.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions CAUTION Changes to hardware, such as removing drives or I/O blades, do not prompt you to save, either by means of messages or warning tickets. Therefore, it is important to save the configuration image after a hardware configuration change. 6 Saving a Remote Restore Image Use the Save command to save a library configuration restore image on a remote file system.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 7 Click Yes. The rescue image timestamp that appears on the Save and Restore Library Configuration dialog box will be updated to indicate that the file has changed. If no rescue image exists, the library prompts you to decide if you want to generate one. If the save operation succeeds, a message appears that indicates the name of the image file that was saved to the remote file system.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Restoring Library Configuration 6 Use the Restore command to restore a library using a configuration image that is saved on a remote file system. If library configuration has occurred since the last time the image was saved, those changes will be lost when the older configuration is restored. The restore operation will succeed, but you will then need to reconfigure the library, including the partitions and mappings.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note If the library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. 5 Using the file chooser dialog box, locate the restore image file on the remote file system. 6 When you have located the file and are ready to proceed, click Open.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 8 If you have not done so already, make sure that the robotics are enabled and bring the library back online so that data input and output can continue. Rescuing Library Configuration 6 Use the Rescue command to restore a library using the configuration rescue image that is saved locally on the library’s file system. CAUTION Be cautious if you plan to use a saved library configuration image that is out of date.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 4 Click Rescue. Note If the library is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. 5 At the prompt, make sure that all data input and output has stopped. Click Yes to continue. When the system determines that it can reconfigure the library using the saved image, a message dialog box appears that informs you that the library will reboot itself. The reset could take minutes to complete.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Reverting Library Configuration In the event that either a restore or rescue operation fails before completion and the library becomes unstable, the Revert command provides a way to roll back any library configuration changes that might have occurred during the operation. The Revert command is unavailable if no revert image is saved. On a new library, no revert image exists until a restore or rescue operation is attempted for the first time.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions If the operation fails at any point, the library generates a RAS ticket that provides that contains details about the failure. Perform a revert or rescue to return the library to a stable configuration. 6 If you have not done so already, make sure that the robotics are enabled and bring the library back online so that data input and output can recommence.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Report Criteria dialog box appears. 4 In the Report Criteria dialog box, you can use the following criteria filters to view and export specific data: • • Scalar i6000 User’s Guide Range • Current Month • Last Month • Last 3 Months • Last 6 Months • Last 12 months Grouping • All Drives by Coordinate: Presents the sum total of all attributes for all drives in the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • • • • All Partitions: Presents a comparison of all drives grouped by partition in the physical library. • Selected Drive by Coordinate: Graph is based on an individual drive according to the library system coordinates. For example, 1,1,1,1,1,1. • Selected Drive by Physical SN: Graph is based on an individual physical drive SN. • Selected Partition: Graph is based on an individual partition in the physical library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 7 Click OK. 8 To view a report according to the criteria selected, click View. The report appears graphically according to the type of chart you selected. 9 To view the next page of the report, click the Next icon on the toolbar.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 10 In the report viewer, you can perform the following tasks: a To save the report as an Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) file, click the Adobe PDF icon on the toolbar. b In the Saving Report to PDF dialog box, enter the appropriate information, and then click Confirm to convert the report into a PDF file. c To print the report, click the Print icon on the toolbar.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note The Advanced reporting feature is available via remote access only. The LMC can automatically generate and e-mail the following reports: • Drive Utilization Report • Tickets Report • Media Integrity Analysis Report To automatically generate reports, set up one or more scheduled jobs using advanced reporting options.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions For more information about choosing report criteria, seGenerating Media Integrity Analysis Reports on page 65, Generating the Tickets Report on page 76, or Viewing the Drive Resource Utilization Reports on page 420. 3 Under Templates, click Save. 4 Type a name for the template, and then click OK. The template appears in the list under Templates. 5 To close the Report Criteria dialog box, click Cancel.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 3 Specify time and recurrence options: • Under Start Date, click the day, month, and year when you want the report to be generated for the first time. (The current date is selected by default.) • Under Specify the Hour to Run, click the value that corresponds to the time of day when you want the report to be generated. (The values in the list correspond to a 24-hour clock. For example, 0 is midnight, 10 is 10:00 a.m., and 20 is 8:00 p.m.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • If there are no templates available for the report you choose, you need to save a template for the report before you can schedule a job. For more information on saving a template, seeSaving Report Criteria Templates on page 425. 5 Click the Recipients tab, and then add one or more e-mail recipients to the job. Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • To add a recipient, type an e-mail address in the box, and then click Add.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Click OK. The new job appears in the list of scheduled jobs. The LMC will generate the report at the specified time and send it to the designated e-mail recipients. Note If a yellow caution icon appears next to a scheduled job on the Reporting Options dialog box, it means there is a problem with the job. For example, the date for the job might be in the past. To correct the problem, edit the job to change job options.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Deleting Scheduled Jobs If you no longer need a scheduled job, delete it. 1 On the menu bar, click Tools > Reports > Reporting Options. The Reporting Options dialog box appears. 2 Under Scheduled Jobs, click the job you want to delete, and then click Delete. A dialog box appears asking if you are sure you want to delete the selected job. 3 Click Yes. The job is deleted from the list of scheduled jobs.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • Full system tests or individual field replaceable unit (FRU) tests • Logs of installation and configuration tests • Graphical reports showing passed, marginal, and failed results • No affect to integrity of data To perform these tests, the accessor assembly must be ready and functional, and the library must be powered on. In addition, the library must be in an offline state, and at least one scratch tape must be inserted in the I/E station.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Partial System Tests 6 The partial system tests perform the selected subtests to test an area or range of the library configuration. The selectable tests include: • Frame test - This test includes the same individual tests as the installation verification test, but enables you to specify a range of modules rather than testing all modules. • Configuration test - This test includes the picker assembly and scanner fiducial tests.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Verification Test Functions Use the Verification Tests dialog box to run tests and view results. Figure 38 shows the parts of the Verification Tests dialog box. To display the dialog box, click Tools > Verification Tests.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Library Alignment Test The library alignment test performs the following tasks: • Performs accessor X-axis and Y-axis travel test (also calls the FRU accessor assembly test) • Calibrates library and checks calibration offsets by comparing them to the default values for the drives and I/E stations • Checks magazine offsets • Checks collected offset alignments for magazines, I/E stations, and drive sleds • Checks joint alignment quality 6 Get/Put Te
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Picker Assembly Test The picker assembly test performs the following tasks: • Performs pivot left and right check • Performs reach and retract five times • If the LMC gets its side done, performs a Get/Put of the selected cell • Scans the control module serial number to make sure the scanner is reading properly Drive Sled Assembly Test 6 The drive sled assembly test performs the following tasks: • Calibrates the drive sled • Checks the quality of
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions • Calibrates and checks repeatability, up to three times for marginal and failed calibration targets 6 Understanding the Verification Test Inventory The verification tests generate inventory lists that provide specific information about the library's configurations. Inventory lists for the library, drives, and blades are available. On the Verification Test dialog box, select the type of inventory list that you want to see (Library, Drive, or Blade).
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Blade Inventory This inventory list provides the following information about each Fibre Channel I/O blade: • Location of each blade • Serial number of the blades 6 Test Results The results of all subtests appear on the Verification Tests dialog box after each individual test is completed. See table 34 for an explanation of test results. Table 34 Test Results Test Results Explanation PASSED Completed the test without reported errors.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note A single problem in the library can cause failed results in multiple tests. After taking action to correct a failed result, run tests that yielded marginal or failed results again. Verification Test Graphical Reports 6 Some verification tests produce graphical reports that let you easily see if the test generated passed, marginal, or failed results.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 39 Report Window click to see results for the next frame click to save a copy of the results in PDF format click to see results for the next test click to view Online Help click to display results for a previously run test (results for the last five tests are retained) click to close the report window click to view the text log graphic showing P (passed), M (marginal), and F (failed) results Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 439
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Joint Alignments 6 The joint alignment graphical report shows the results for tests of alignment between frames. It also shows the results for tests of accessor travel to all corners of the library. • If the graphical report shows one or more failed results for joint alignment, realign the middle X-axis rail and check the alignment of the top and bottom X-axis rails at the location of the failure.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 40 Joint Alignments Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 441
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Vertical Alignments 6 The vertical alignments graphical report shows the results for test of vertical alignment of tape magazines on the drive-side and door-side of each frame, and for vertical alignment of each I/E station. • If the graphical report shows a failed result for the drive-side or doorside, make sure that all tape magazines are installed properly on that side and that the calibration targets are correctly snapped on to the magazines.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 41 Vertical Alignments Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 443
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Horizontal Alignments 6 The horizontal alignments graphical report shows the results for tests of horizontal alignment of tape magazines on the drive-side and door-side across frames, and for horizontal alignment of I/E stations across frames. Note This graphical report is not generated for libraries with only one frame.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 42 Horizontal Alignments Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 445
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Calibration Offsets 6 The calibration offsets graphical report shows the results for tests of tape magazine, drive sled, and I/E station offsets compared to predefined tolerances. Reports are generated for drive-side and door-side for all frames.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 43 Calibration Offsets Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 447
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Boundary/Accessibility 6 The boundary/accessibility graphical report shows the results for tests of the accessor while performing Get, Put, and Scan functions for all tape magazines and drive sleds. (This tests whether magazines and sleds are within the maximum allowable movement range of the accessor.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 44 Boundary/ Accessibility Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 449
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Get/Put 6 The Get/Put graphical report shows the results for tests of the picker assembly while performing one Get and one Put function for each tape magazine. The picker will use the selected scratch tape or the existing tape if it finds one at the target. • If the graphical report shows a failed result for one or more tape magazines, make sure the magazines at the location of the failure are installed properly.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 45 Get/Put Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 451
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Scan Fiducials The scan fiducials graphical report shows the results for tests of the fiducial barcode on each tape magazine and drive sled, including the width, expected Y position (shift), and the number of hits the scanner receives while traveling up and down. (Only known magazines are tested.) • If the graphical report shows a failed result for one or more tape magazines, replace the affected magazines.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 46 Scan Fiducials Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 453
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Picker Pivot/Reach 6 The picker pivot/reach graphical report shows the results for tests of the picker while performing rotation and reach/retract actions. • If the graphical report shows one or more marginal or failed results, inspect the picker. It should rotate easily by hand, and the fingers should spring into a clamped position. Make sure both rotation axis belts are free of debris.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 47 Picker Pivot/Reach Graphical Report Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 455
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Verification Test Logs Each verification test produces a test log that details all information and results from the individual tests and subtests. In addition, the log includes information to help you understand the test results and to help resolve any problems encountered. To view a test log, click Reports on the Verification Tests dialog box to display the report window, and then click the Text tab.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Figure 48 Example Test Log Output Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 457
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Running the Verification Tests 6 This section provides instructions for starting the installation verification test, partial tests, and FRU operational tests. To stop a test, disable the robotics by pressing the Robotics Enable button on the operator panel or by clicking Stop on the Verification Tests dialog box. Control will be returned to you as soon as the current command is completed. The test results appear after the tests complete.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Verification Tests dialog box appears. 4 From the Select Test drop-down list, click Install. 5 Click Start. 6 If prompted to take the library offline, click Yes.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The IVT Pre-Test Questionnaire appears. 7 Complete the pre-test questionnaire by clicking inside the box next to the questions. You cannot continue with the installation verification test until you have completed and verified the question requests on this questionnaire.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note Make sure you physically verify each of the questions on the questionnaire. Each of the items listed can cause the installation verification test to have unexpected behavior and unreliable results. The tests must be re-run if they fail. 8 After you complete the questionnaire, click Next. The following dialog box appears. 9 Insert a “scratch” cartridge into the I/E station, and then click Next.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note • Make sure that your scratch tapes are formatted and contain no data that cannot be overwritten. Scratch tapes must have barcode labels with valid volume serial (volser) numbers on them. Also, you might find it useful to write down the volser number so that you can identify your scratch tapes. • This procedure will not damage any cartridges that are already installed in the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note You can select one “scratch” cartridge per media type. Each test that requires a scratch cartridge will call the media types as needed. 11 After you select the cartridges, click Finish.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions As the tests run, the library will generate RAS tickets if problems are discovered. You must close the Verification Tests dialog box to view those tickets. Return to the Verification Tests dialog box to view test results. 12 After the test is complete, click Reports to view the test results.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The report window appears with the Graphical tab displayed. Scalar i6000 User’s Guide • Use the Graphical tab to view graphical reports and to quickly identify areas where marginal or failed results occurred. • Use the toolbar to navigate between graphical reports or to save the results in PDF format. For more information about how to work with graphical reports, see Verification Test Graphical Reports on page 438.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 13 For more detailed test results, click the Text tab to view the test log generated by the LMC. 14 Review the test log to find marginal or failed test results, and to see troubleshooting information. For information about how to interpret test logs, see Verification Test Logs on page 456. 15 To e-mail the test log, print it, or save it as a text file, click Send and then specify the output location.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 16 To see the results for a previous test, click Reports, and then click a test. The LMC saves the most recent five test results. 17 When you are done working with the test results, click Close to close the result window. 18 If you are done performing verification tests, click Close to close the Verification Tests dialog box.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The Email, Save or Print dialog box appears. 3 Perform one of the following tasks: • To indicate that you want to send the log as an e-mail message to a recipient, select Email, and then either type an e-mail address in the Email text box or select an existing address from the dropdown list. You can type a comment in the Comment text box to send with the log.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Partial Tests 6 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Tools→ Verification Tests. The Verification Tests dialog box appears. 4 From the Select Test drop-down list, click Partial.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 From the Select Subtest drop-down list, click either Frame or Configuration or both. A check mark indicates the test is selected. 6 Click Start. 7 If prompted to take the library offline, click Yes. The following dialog box appears. 8 Select either Continue With Scratch Tapes or Continue Without Scratch Tapes, and then click Next.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 9 If you selected Continue With Scratch Tapes, insert a “scratch” cartridge into the I/E station, and then click Next. Note • Make sure that your scratch tapes are formatted and contain no data that cannot be overwritten. Scratch tapes must have barcode labels with valid volume serial (volser) numbers on them. Also, you might find it useful to write down the volser number so that you can identify your scratch tapes.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Note Scalar i6000 User’s Guide You can select one “scratch” cartridge per media type. Each test that requires a scratch cartridge will call the media types as needed.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 11 Select the number of the frame and racks where the tests are to be performed. The following example shows both the frame and configuration tests because both were selected.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Test progress is shown in the Verification Tests dialog box. 12 After the test is complete, click Reports to view the test results. For more information about how to work with graphical reports, see Verification Test Graphical Reports on page 438. For information about how to interpret test logs, see Verification Test Logs on page 456.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions For information how to e-mail, print, or save text logs, see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Test Logs on page 467. FRU Operational Tests 6 There are two ways to run the FRU operational tests. You can select the FRU test from the Verification Tests dialog box. Alternatively, you can run the test from the Ticket Details dialog box if that FRU is supported by the verification tests.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions The screens displayed by the FRU operational tests vary, depending on which subtest was selected. For example, if you click Picker Assembly, IE Assembly, or Drive Sled Assembly, the following dialog box appears for selecting a scratch tape. To run FRU operational tests from the Verification Tests dialog box: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 3 Click Tools > Verification Tests. The Verification Tests dialog box appears. FRU tests are available for the Accessor Assembly, Picker Assembly, Drive Sled Assembly, IE Assembly, and Scan Barcode. You can only test one FRU at a time. The following steps provide instructions for running the Scan Barcode test. The other tests provide similar windows and functionality for the other FRUs. 4 From the Select Test drop-down list, click FRU.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 From the Select Subtest drop-down list, click Scan Barcode. 6 Click Start. 7 If prompted to take the library offline, click Yes. The following dialog box appears. This dialog box enables you to enter any coordinate address in the library (aisle, module, rack, section, column, and row). The address does not need to be occupied by a drive or cartridge.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 8 Click Finish. Test progress is shown in the Verification Tests dialog box. 9 After the test is complete, click Reports to view the test results. For more information about how to work with graphical reports, see Verification Test Graphical Reports on page 438. For information about how to interpret test logs, see Verification Test Logs on page 456.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions For information how to e-mail, print, or save text logs, see Mailing, Saving, and Printing Test Logs on page 467. To run FRU operational tests from the Ticket Details dialog box: 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View menu, click the name of the physical library. 3 Click Tools > Tickets. 4 From the Tickets dialog box, click the categories of the tickets you want to view.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 Click a ticket to highlight it, and then click Details.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 From the Ticket Details dialog box, click FRU Test. 7 After the FRU test successfully verifies that the FRU has PASSED or is MARGINAL, all tickets associated with the failure are transitioned to the Verify state. Using the Partitions Defragmentation Tool Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 6 Typically, partitions in a library are physically contiguous. That is, all tape slots that belong to a partition are adjacent to one another in the library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions Defragmenting partitions reassigns slots in the library so that all slots in each partition are physically contiguous with one another. In addition, media is moved as needed to make sure it resides in the correct partition. In the process, tapes are first moved from their old location to the I/E station, and then are moved to their new location in the library. Note CAUTION Only partitions that contain an I/E station can be defragmented.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions If the library has more than one frame, click the arrow buttons to display the next or previous frame. If one or more partitions are fragmented, you can defragment them. 4 To begin defragmenting partitions, click Start. A dialog box appears notifying you that partitions that do not have a free I/E station slot cannot be defragmented and will be skipped.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 5 Verify that the I/E station in each partition has at least one free slot, and then click Yes. A dialog box appears notifying you that all partitions must be taken offline before defragmenting can begin. 6 Click Yes to take all partitions offline. The partitions defragmentation operation starts. A progress bar at the top of the Partitions Defragmentation dialog box displays the percentage complete for the operation.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintenance Actions 6 Cycling Library Power If library firmware seems to be at fault, or the robot will not move, or a circuit board has gone down, try recycling power to the library. Cycling library power involves shutting down the library, powering it off, and then powering it on. For more information, see Shutting Down/Rebooting the Library on page 316, Powering On the Library on page 318, and Powering On the Library on page 318.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Running MeDIA Test Reports Running MeDIA Test Reports You may need evaluate your media as part of long term data retention, or you may want to evaluate media prior to rotating it back into usage. To perform this task, you can run a MeDIA test to assess tape media and the usability of data stored on it. MeDIA Tests can be run only on a library managed partition. Use the Media Test dialog box to scan media on the library managed partition of your library.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Running MeDIA Test Reports 4 From the Select Test drop down menu, select the test you want to run. • Quick Scan - does not require reading a tape, retrieves data from the cartridge memory (CM) • Normal Scan - assesses a nominal portion of data written to tape • Full Scan - assesses all data written to tape 5 If a Normal Scan or Full Scan is selected the Continue On Error can be selected.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Running MeDIA Test Reports The MeDIA Test Sessions List dialog box appears. The MeDIA Test Session List displays the set of media tests that have run based on the time range selected. Each entry in the table presents an overview of a single MeDIA Test session that was requested from the MeDIA Test dialog (Tools > MeDIA > Test Selection). The Select Session section displays.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Running MeDIA Test Reports • Finish Time – the date and time the test session completed. If the test session has not yet completed, “In Progress”, will be reported. • Results - reports a summary of results for the media that were in the test session, you can select one of the test sessions listed and then click the Details button to view the details for each media tested. The reported values include the status and the number of media associated with that status.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Running MeDIA Test Reports The Session Report dialog box appears. The MeDIA Session Report is divided into two sections: • Scalar i6000 User’s Guide The top section displays a table containing the media information that were tested for the MeDIA Test Session that was selected from the MeDIA Test Sessions List dialog.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Using Sift Sort • The lower section contains the test details for the media selected in the table. The details section contains the following information: • CM Scan Status – the cartridge memory status: Test completed, Test paused, Test pending, Test not run, or Test in progress.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Using Sift Sort Exporting Media via Sift / Sort 6 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 From the Tools menu, select Sift Sort > Export. The Sift Sort Export dialog box appears. You may choose to filter by partition or by barcode.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Using Sift Sort 3 To filter by partition, in the SSE Source Filter area, do the following: a Select a Partition from the drop down list. b To use an additional filter, in the Media Filter field, type the search string and click Filter. For example, to filter all media containing the character 8, type *8*.This field is case sensitive. The appropriate media appears in the Select SSE Media section below.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Using Sift Sort The Control Module screen appears. Based on the selections you made on the Sift Sort Export screen, the Control Module screen displays the available storage locations. 8 Click the desired storage location slot for the export function. The coordinates and details for that location appear in the Information area of the screen.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Using Sift Sort 9 Click Select. The Sift Sort Export screen appears. Capturing Sift Sort Screen Shot 6 Use the Capture Sift Sort screen to capture a picture of the last sift sort export you performed. The picture can be saved to a file on your local work station or emailed to a recipient. 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 From the Tools menu, select Sift Sort > Capture Report. The Capture Sift Sort Screen Shot screen appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Retrieving MIBs Retrieving MIBs The Tools menu’s Retrieve MIBs option allows you to retrieve the Scalar i6000 MIB files, which can be compiled into your SNMP Management tools. After retrieving the MIB files, you can extract the contents and then use a third-party SNMP tool such as Landesk or HP Operations Manager. Emailing or Saving an MIB File 6 1 Log on as an administrator. 2 From the Tools menu, select Retrieve MIBs. The Retrieve MIBs zip file dialog box appears.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintaining Air Filters 3 Send the MIB file via email, or save it on your computer. Email the MIB File a Click the circle next to Email. b Either type the email address or select one from the drop down list. The Comment section is enabled for entry. c In the Comment section, you can include a note to the recipient, or any comments about the MIB file.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintaining Air Filters Figure 49 Top and Bottom Air Filters top air filter bottom air filter Many factors exist that contribute to the need to regularly service the air filters. For example, the total number of tape drives and the operating environment greatly affect the rate at which debris accumulates in the air filters. With the maximum number of tape drives operating in a normal data center environment, you should check the filters every two years.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintaining Air Filters Removing an Air Filter 6 Use these instructions to remove either a top or bottom air filter. Required tools: #1 Phillips screwdriver FRU ID: 1001 (air filter) 1 Take the library offline. For information about taking the library offline, see Changing the Library’s State on page 303. 2 On the operator panel, press Robotics Enabled to turn off power to the picker and return it to the home position. The power is on to all other components.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintaining Air Filters 6 Use water and a mild soap to clean the air filter. 7 Allow them to dry. Replacing an Air Filter 6 Use these instructions to replace either a top or bottom air filter. Note Make sure that the air filter is completely dry before placing it back in the access door. Required tools: #1 Phillips screwdriver FRU ID: 1001 (air filter) 1 Take the library offline.
Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library Maintaining Air Filters 5 Place the retaining bar over the filter to hold it in place. Use the Phillips screwdriver to tighten the two retaining thumbscrews. thumbscrew retaining bar thumbscrew 6 Close the access door. 7 On the operator panel, press Robotics Enabled to enable the picker. 8 Bring the library online. See Changing the Library’s State on page 303.
Chapter 7 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes The Library Management Console (LMC) simplifies cartridge loading and unloading, importing and exporting, and moving and inventory operations.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Handling Cartridges Properly Every partition in the library must contain at least one cleaning cartridge.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Write-Protecting Cartridges • Do not place cartridges near sources of electromagnetic energy or strong magnetic fields, such as computer monitors, electric motors, speakers, or x-ray equipment. Exposure to electromagnetic energy or magnetic fields can destroy data and the embedded servo code written on the media by the cartridge manufacturer, rendering the cartridges unusable. • Place identification labels only in the designated slots on the cartridges.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Barcode Requirements Figure 50 Write-protect Switch on an LTO-1 Cartridge Barcode Requirements Cartridges must have an external barcode label that is machine-readable to identify the volume serial number. A barcode must use only uppercase letters A to Z and/or numeric values 0 to 9. The library supports Code 39 (3 of 9) type barcode labels.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Barcode Requirements For SDLT I media barcodes, the library dynamically supports 1 to 6 characters for volume serial number plus a one-character media type identifier. The image below is an example of a supported SDLT I barcode label. character media identifier must be an “S” For SDLT II media barcodes, the library dynamically supports 1 to 6 characters for volume serial number plus a one- character media type identifier.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Installing Barcode Labels • Length of the rest zones: 5.25 mm ± 0.25 mm • No black marks should be present in the intermediate spaces or rest zones • No white areas should be present on the bars Installing Barcode Labels Each cartridge in the library must have an external label that is operator and machine readable to identify the barcode number.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Using Cleaning Cartridges Figure 51 Applying Barcode Labels to Cartridges top of cartridge barcode label write protect lock Using Cleaning Cartridges Most tape drives require occasional cleaning. A cleaning cartridge cleans accumulated debris from the tape drive and the read/write head. CAUTION You must use a separate cleaning cartridge for each partition in the library.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media • Cleaning tapes must be labeled with a barcode. In some cases, specific labels have been established as industry standard. For instance, the prefix “CLN” might be used to identify a cleaning tape. The library does not require a specific content to the label and accepts conventional tape labels. • Insert a cleaning tape just as you do any other data tape.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media Note Importing Cartridges Into Partitions 7 Unless the situation requires it, uses the host application to move, load, unload, import, or export cartridges instead of doing so through the LMC. Using the host to move media makes sure that the host’s view of the library remains in sync with the library’s actual configuration.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The Import Media dialog box appears with a list of cartridges in the I/E station displayed.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The following table describes the elements on the Import Media dialog box. Element Description Media ID The volume serial number of the cartridge. Slot The number of the slot in the I/E station magazine. To understand the location designation, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288. IE Station The number of the module. To understand the location designation, see Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The Export Media dialog box appears with a list of cartridges in the partition displayed. 3 If you want to display one or more media IDs that match a particular pattern, type a media filter in the Media Filter text box, and then click Filter. Filter performs a search for media IDs that match a particular pattern. In the example, the media filter has been set to capture media IDs beginning with the string “J00”.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media Loading Drives 7 The Load Drives dialog box enables you to load drives with cartridges from the current partition. 1 Make sure that you are viewing the partition from which you want to load drives. From the View menu, click the name of the appropriate partition. 2 Click Operations > Drives > Load. The Load Drives dialog box appears.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The parameters used to define a cartridge are media ID (barcode) and location. Location is defined as a series of coordinates representing the aisle, module, rack, section, column, and row where a cartridge is located. See Understanding Location Coordinates on page 288. The Select Media area shows the full slots. 5 Click the destination drive to receive the media to highlight it. The Select Drive area is populated with empty drives.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The parameters used to define a cartridge are media ID (volume serial number) and location. Location is defined as a series of coordinates representing the aisle, module, rack, section, column, and row where a cartridge is located. SeeUnderstanding Location Coordinates on page 288. 5 Click OK. The library rewinds the data cartridge, unloads it from the drive, and returns it to storage.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media The Move Media dialog box appears. The table in the Select Source area lists slot locations with cartridges, and the table in the Select Target area lists slot locations without cartridges.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media • To list a particular cartridge by media ID, type the volume serial number of the cartridge in the Media ID text box, and then click Show. You also can type a partial volume serial number, such as “K00”, to list all cartridges within the specified location coordinates that have a volume serial number containing the specified string of characters.
Chapter 7 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes Managing Media Note • If you want to perform an inventory of the physical library, and it is not offline, you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it offline. Click Yes. • If you want to perform an inventory of a partition, and if the physical library is offline, you receive a message asks you whether you want to take the physical library online. Click Yes.
Appendix A Frequently Asked Questions A This appendix answers some questions that are most often asked about the library. Where do I find installation instructions? The library requires that a1 trained Quantum Support Engineer perform the installation. Where are error messages described? When the library detects 1 issues, it sends you e-mail notifications and creates tickets that provide you with detailed information about the issues and corrective actions you can perform.
What is a partition? A partition is an abstraction of a single underlying1 physical library that presents the appearance of multiple, separate libraries for purposes of file management, access by multiple users, or dedication to one or more host applications. It is a collection of real physical elements, combined to create a grouping that is different from the physical library, and is often dedicated to a single host application.
For SDLT II media barcodes, the library dynamically supports 1 to 6 characters for volume serial number plus a one- character media type identifier. The image below is an example of a supported SDLT II barcode label. character media identifier must be a “2” For DLT-S4 media barcodes, the library dynamically supports 1 to 6 characters for volume serial number plus a one-character media type identifier. The media identifier should be “4”.
Appendix C Glossary C This glossary consists of terms unique to the library along with some storage industry terminology. Access door Refers to the doors on either the control module or expansion module from which you can access the magazines and accessor assembly. Capacity on demand (COD) An Quantum library feature that enables users to have a large physical library, but users pay only for what capacity they are currently using.
Drive pooling Drives to be held in a pool (or pools) of drives. You can specify policy settings for the drive pools to configure how each pool will react to a drive failure and load balancing. Drive sled position A slot where a Fibre Channel or SCSI drives reside in the control module or expansion module in one of the two drive clusters. There are six drive sled positions in each of the two drive clusters.
Library Management Console (LMC) The management software client for the library. You can use the LMC either locally from the touch screen operator panel on the control module or remotely through a web browser running a Java applet. Library management module (LMM) The connectivity interface for the three blades that provide intelligence and connectivity to the library through the control module.
Service door The door on either the control module or expansion module that provides access to the I/O management unit, LMM, power supplies, drive sleds and other components. Storage area network (SAN) A dedicated, high-performance network whose primary purpose is the transfer of data along FC or high-speed Ethernet connections between servers, interconnect devices, and storage peripherals.
Index write-protecting 505 A B addressing barcode labels channel zoning 177 aisle 289 applying 508 bay 301 placement 508 cluster 301 blades column 289 Fibre Channel 22 module 289 location 299 rack 289 buttons and indicators 270 row 289 cartridges 288 air filters removing 500 replacing 501 Applet 265 applying barcode labels 508 audience intended 1 Automatic Drive Cleaning 136 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide component module I/E station 23 configuration date and time 162 devices 173 drives 365
Index contacting Quantum 6 exporting cartridges 513 control module 13 library interface 12 I/O management unit. See also connectivity customer service center website 6 I/O management unit extended I/E option 23 importing cartridges 511 F indicators 35, 270 FC host 184, 188, 189 D power 270 FC host port failover 154 robotics enabled 270 Fibre Channel status 270 LUN mapping.
Index library information panel 284 modifying 134 menus 271 system status buttons 286 return media identifier 117, 127, 132, 136 toolbar 283 selecting 301 licenses, enabling 173 policies 159 logging on 263 power LTO 31 AC power cord 36 LUN Mapping Wizard 202 power distribution unit 36 power off 317 power supply 36 product version numbers 274 M S safety intended use 1 statements 1 symbols and notes 4 System, Safety, and Regulatory Information Guide 1 saving library configuration rescue 414 r
Index explained 4 system status 286 T teach 408 about 408 calibration 410 configuration 408 terminology glossary 524 testing drives 365 teach 408 toolbar 283 training contact Quantum 6 troubleshooting 37 LEDs 82 U user accounts creating 306 deleting 314 modifying 310 Using 228 Using LDAP 228 W website customer service center 6 Scalar i6000 User’s Guide 531
