User's Guide

Chapter 12 Installing, Removing, and Replacing
Taking the Library Online/Offline
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• Adding, Removing, and Replacing Tape Drives
• Adding, Removing, and Replacing FC I/O Blades
• Adding, Removing, and Replacing the FC I/O Fan Blade
• Tape Drive Ethernet Connectivity and the Ethernet Expansion Blade
• Cabling a 5U Library for Ethernet Connectivity
• Installing the Ethernet Expansion Blade
• Permanently Removing or Relocating an Ethernet Expansion
Blade
• Replacing an Ethernet Expansion Blade in the Same Location
• Viewing Ethernet Connectivity
• Preparing the Library for Moving or Shipping
Taking the Library Online/Offline
An online library allows a host application to fully control library
operations. Taking a library offline switches library control to the user
interfaces and limits host application command requests.
Taking a Library Online12
To take an entire library online, take all of its partitions online.
1 Using the library’s operator panel, select
Operations > Change
Partition Mode
; or, using the Web client, select Operations > Partitions
> Change Mode
.
2 For each partition that you want to take online, click
Online.
3 Click
Apply.