Discover Media - How To
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Discover Media from the CommCell Console
Discover a Specific Media Within a
Library
Discover Media from the Library and Drive Configuration Window
Enable Automatic Media Discovery During Library Configuration
Enable
(or disable) Automatic Media Discovery After Library Configuration
Discover Cleaning Media
Discover Media in a Blind Library
Discover Media from the CommCell Console
You can use the following procedure to:
- Discover all media within a library
- Discover a partial set of media within a library
Required Capability:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover media within a
library:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the library whose media you want to discover, and
then click Discover Media.
- If one or more new media are discovered, the system displays the Discover New Media
dialog box and prompts you for media information.
- Select the hardware type of the new media from the New Media Type
list and the scratch pool to which you want the media assigned from the Destination
Scratch Pool list.
- The total number of undiscovered media available in the library is
displayed in the No. of media in Free Media Pool field. Specify the
number of media you would like to discover in the No. of media to be
discovered field.
- Click OK.
You can also discover the media from the Library and Drive
Configuration window. See
Discover Media from the Library and Drive Configuration Window
for more information.
Discover a Specific Media Within a Library
Required Capability:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover
a specific media within a
library:
- From the CommCell Browser, locate the library whose media you want to
discover in the Libraries level.
- Navigate to the Media in Library pool.
All the media available in
the library is displayed in the right-pane of the CommCell Console.
Right-click the (undiscovered) media and then click Discover.
- From the
Discover New Media dialog box, select the Media Type and Scratch Pool to
which the media must be moved.
- Click OK.
The media is discovered and assigned to the specified scratch pool.
Discover Media from the Library and Drive Configuration Window
Required Capability:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover media within a
library:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- Right-click the library whose media you want to discover, and then click
Discover Media.
- From the Discover New Media
dialog box, enter the necessary information.
- Click OK.
- The system displays a warning message advising you to move the cleaning media
to the Cleaning Media Pool. Click OK.
If new media are discovered, they are assigned to the designated scratch pool. Otherwise,
a message appears informing you that no new media were found.
You can also discover the media from the CommCell Console. See Discovering Media from the CommCell Console
for more information.
Enable Automatic Media Discovery During Library Configuration
Required Capability:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover media within a
library:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
-
Detect the devices as described in one of the following:
-
Configure the library as described in
Configure Devices.
During the configuration process, if the library has a barcode reader, the
Discover
Media Options dialog box is displayed.
Perform one of the following:
If the library does not have a barcode reader, another
Discover
Media Options dialog box is displayed.
Select the correct media type available in the library and then click
OK.
Enable or Disable Automatic Media Discovery
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
enable automatic media discovery:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the library for which you wish to
enable automatic media discovery, and
then click Properties.
- Click the
Media
Usage tab.
- From the Auto-Discovery of Media region, click Enable Auto-Discovery
of
Media into default scratch pool option. (Clear this check box to
disable this option.)
- Select the default media type available in the library from the Default
Media Type list.
Note
that the media available in a library must be compatible with the drives
attached to the library.
- Click OK to save the changes.
When you subsequently import media,
the
imported media is automatically moved to the default scratch pool.
Discovering Cleaning Media
To
discover cleaning media within a library
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the library in which you want to
discover cleaning media, and then click Discover Cleaning
Media from the short-cut menu.
- In the Discover Cleaning Media
dialog box that appears, select the hardware type of the new media from the
Cleaning Media
Type list and the scratch pool to which you want the media assigned from
the Destination Cleaning Media Pool list. Enter the number of
media you want to import in No. of media to be discovered box.
- Click OK.
The newly imported cleaning media is displayed in the Cleaning
Media
pool.
Discover Media in a Blind Library
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To discover media
in a blind library:
- From the CommCell Console, right-click the media you wish to discover and
then click Discover Media.
The system attempts to discover the media and reports the success or failure
of the operation in the Event Viewer.
Note that the discover operation is displayed as an inventory job in the Job
Controller window.