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Configure Mount Path Allocation Policy

Modify the Mount and Unmount Timeouts for Magnetic Libraries

View or Modify the Device Properties for Magnetic Libraries with Static Mount Paths

Enable or Disable a Magnetic Library

Enable or Disable a Mount Path

View the Contents of a Mount Path

View the Magnetic Library Offline Reason

Delete the Contents of a Mount Path

Configure Mount Path Allocation Policy

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure space allocation for a Cloud Storage library:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the Cloud Storage mount path and then click Properties.
2. Click the Allocation Policy tab.
3. In the Space Allocation section, establish one of the following options:
   • If you prefer no space restrictions, select the No Restriction option.
   • To specify the maximum space that can be used by the mount path select the Do not consume more than n GB option and specify the space limit.
4. Click OK to save the changes.

Modify the Mount and Unmount Timeouts for Magnetic Libraries

Related Topic

• Configure Timeouts

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To modify the mount and unmount timeouts for magnetic libraries:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the magnetic library for which you wish to change mount and unmount timeout periods, and then click Properties.
2. In the Mount and Unmount box, type or select the timeout periods.
3. Click OK to save the changes.

View or Modify the Device Properties for Magnetic Libraries with Static Mount Paths

To modify the device properties for magnetic libraries with static mount paths:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a mount path for which you wish to view the modify the properties, and then click Properties.
2. If necessary you can:
   • Change the Device Alias Name
   • Enable or disable the device by selecting or clearing the Device Enabled option.
3. Click OK to save the changes.

Enable or Disable the Magnetic Library

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable or disable a magnetic library:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the magnetic library that you wish to enable or disable, and then click Properties.
2. From the General tab of Library Properties, click the Enable Library option.
3. Click OK to save the changes.

Enable or Disable a Mount Path

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable or disable a mount path:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the mount path that you wish to enable or disable, and then click Properties.
2. From the General tab of Library Properties, click the Enable MountPath option.
3. Click OK to save the changes.

View the Contents of a Mount Path

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the contents of a mount path

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the mount path for which you wish to view the content, and then click View Contents.

   or

   From the Media Used By Job ID dialog box right-click the media for which you wish to view the content, and then click View Contents.

2. The Contents of Media dialog box displays the details of jobs available in the media.

View the Magnetic Library Offline Reason

To view the offline reason for a magnetic library:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the magnetic library for which you wish to view the offline reason, and then click Properties.

   Information on the magnetic library offline reason is displayed in the Offline Reason box.

Delete the Contents of a Mount Path

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete the contents of a mount path:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the mount path for which you wish to delete the contents, and then click Delete Contents.
2. Click Yes in the Warning prompt to continue.

   Click No to abort the operation.

3. In the Enter Confirmation text dialog box, type erase and reuse media and then click OK.

   Click Cancel to abort the operation.

NOTES

This operation deletes the data from the CommServe database. Note that this operation does not free-up the disk space in the mount path. A Data Aging operation must be run subsequently to free-up the disk space.