User's Manual

Chapter 5 Getting Information
Using Advanced Reporting
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• Information about a tape drive, cartridge, or operation is not
recorded in the Drive Resource Utilization log file until after a tape
cartridge has been mounted (loaded) and unmounted (unloaded)
from the tape drive.
Configuring the Drive
Resource Utilization
Report 5
This report identifies how tape drive resources are utilized in your
library. You can use this report to help you determine the proper work
load distribution between the tape drives in your library.
The following information is collected for each tape drive installed in the
library:
• Drive location (module, row)
• Drive serial number
•Partition
• Megabytes read
• Megabytes written
• Time and date of mount (UTC)
• Time and date of dismount (UTC)
• Media motion time (in seconds)
• Tape cartridge barcode
To configure the report, specify the following:
• Range — Specifies the range of time covered in the report. Choose
one of the following:
• Last 7 days
• Last 4 weeks (default)
• Last 3 months
• All History (as far back as there is data in the log file)
Note: To view this report you must have Advanced Reporting
licensed on your library. For details, see Adding or Upgrading
Licensable Features on page 80.