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Display the Library and Drive Configuration window
Detect Devices Using Exhaustive Detection
Validate the Drives in a Library
Change the Door Check Seconds for a Library
Enable Automatic Media Discovery During Library Configuration
The following procedure describes the steps involved in displaying the Library and Drive Configuration window.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To display the Library and Drive Configuration window |
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1. | From the Tools menu in the CommCell Console, click Control Panel. | |
2. | Double click Library & Drive Configuration. | |
3. | Select the MediaAgent(s) whose devices you want to detect
or display, and then click OK. To configure any shared library, make sure you select all the MediaAgents that share the library. NOTES
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Click OK to continue. NOTES
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You can now detect the devices controlled by the selected MediaAgent(s) as described in Detect Devices. |
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The following procedure describes the steps involved in detecting the devices attached to a MediaAgent.
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To detect devices controlled by MediaAgent(s) |
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1. | Display the Library and Drive Configuration window. | |||
2. | From the Library and Drive Configuration window, click the Start menu and choose Detect/Config Devices. | |||
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In the Detect Library dialog box, choose the appropriate options:
Click OK. |
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Optionally, from the Processing dialog box
you can perform the following operations:
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5. | An Information prompt appears, informing you to right-click the device to continue the configuration. Click OK to proceed. | |||
6. | When the detection process is completed, the log file is displayed. Note the log file contents and click Close to proceed. | |||
7. | If the library supports SCSI 3 drive identification, the system detects the devices and displays them with detection status detect success, in the Library and Drive Configuration window. Configure the library as described in Configure Devices. | |||
If the library does not support
SCSI 3 drive identification, the system
detects the Library with Empty Drive Slots and the drives as StndAln Library. Perform an Exhaustive Detection before configuring the library. (See Detect Devices Using Exhaustive Detection for step-by-step instructions.) |
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The following procedure describes the steps involved in detecting the devices attached to a MediaAgent using exhaustive detection.
This process, attempts to mount a media in each of the selected drives to determine the drive numbers to its correct SCSI address. Due to the nature of this operation and depending on the number of drives, this operation may take several minutes to complete.
This procedure cannot be used for detecting stand-alone drives. |
When you start the exhaustive detection operation, the system will detect all the libraries (and drives) attached to selected MediaAgent(s). In addition, the exhaustive detection can also be performed from the following levels:
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
Before You Begin |
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To detect devices controlled by MediaAgent(s) |
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1. | Display the Library and Drive Configuration window. | |||
2. | From the Library and Drive Configuration window, click the Start menu and choose Detect/Config Devices. | |||
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In the Detect Library dialog box, choose the appropriate options:
Click OK. |
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4. | Click Yes to continue. | |||
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From the Device Selection dialog box,
select the libraries and drives you wish to detect and then click OK. The detection process will attempt to detect the devices by mounting the media in each of the selected drives to determine the correct drive to library mapping. You can track the progress of the operation in the Processing dialog box. |
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Optionally, from the Processing dialog box
you can perform the following operations:
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7. | When the exhaustive detection process is completed, the log file is displayed. Note the log file contents and click Close to proceed. | |||
8. | An Information prompt appears, informing you to right-click the device to continue the configuration. Click OK to proceed | |||
Exhaustive detection may not be able to unload a drive, if it is not detected. If this occurs manually remove the media from the drive. | ||||
In the expanded tree in the sample image , the unconfigured devices
controlled by MediaAgent are
displayed. Note that if the devices are not configured at this point, the detection information will not be saved if you exit from the Library and Drive Configuration window now. |
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9. | Configure the library as described in Configure Devices. |
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The following procedure describes the steps involved in configuring devices attached to a MediaAgent or NAS NDMP File Server.
To configure a library |
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1. | Display the Library and Drive Configuration window. | |
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Detect the devices as described in one of the following:
Note that the Library and Drive Configuration window displays a master drive pool (with a drive pool and the associated drives) for the library. |
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3. | Optionally, perform the following steps if you do not want the system to automatically create a storage policy during configuration: | |
Right-click the library and then click Properties. | ||
From the Library Properties window, if
necessary, clear the
Automatically create storage policy for new
Datapaths option. Click OK. |
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4. | From the Library and Drive Configuration window, right-click the library that you want to configure, and then click Configure. | |
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Choose one of the following options from the Configuration
dialog box:
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If you have not already performed an exhaustive detection, or if your
exhaustive detection did not detect one or more of the existing devices,
the Device Configuration dialog box is
displayed. Choose one of the following options:
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A Confirm prompt appears, asking you if
your library has a barcode reader.
On Windows MediaAgents, this prompt is displayed only in the following situations:
If Windows detects the correct media changer, this prompt will not be displayed. |
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If the library has a barcode reader, the Discover
Media Options dialog box is displayed. Perform one of the following:
For more information on discovering media in a library, see Discover Media. Ensure that media is discovered, before using the library for a data protection operations. |
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If the library does not have a barcode reader, the Discover
Media Options dialog box is displayed. Select the correct media type available in the library and then click OK. |
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If the library does not have a barcode reader the Confirm
prompt is displayed.
For libraries without a barcode reader, read the information provided in Blind Library Configuration. |
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The status of the library changes to configured.
If you chose to configure all associated drives, the status of the drives
(and of the drive pool that contains them) changes to configured
as well. If the library is an optical library, the system automatically identifies the optical library and uses the optical library icon to display the library information. The Library tab provides the physical view of the devices (library and drives).
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The Data Paths tab provides a logical view of the data path used to access the devices - library, master drive pool, drive pool, drive. |
The following procedure describes the steps for validating drives in a library.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To validate the SCSI mapping of drives within a library:
The system attempts to mount a media in each drive within the library, master drive pool, drive pool or drive. A progress bar reports the progress of the validation job.
Click on the View Log button to display the Log dialog box which reports the status of each task that is performed during the drive validation operation.
A status message reporting the success or failure of the operation appears in the Status Bar at the bottom of the Library and Drive Configuration window.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To change the library name:
Click OK to save the changes.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To change the door check seconds for a library:
Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover media within a library:
During the configuration process, if the library has a barcode reader, the Discover Media Options dialog box is displayed.
Perform one of the following:
Ensure that media is discovered, before using the library for a data protection operations.
Select the correct media type available in the library and then click OK.