Select the necessary options in the Enable Auto-Cleaning area.
Click OK to save the changes.
Clean a Drive
Before you Begin
Do not clean the drive when a job is in progress.
Ensure that you have imported or moved cleaning media into the Cleaning Media
Pool. For more information
on importing cleaning media, see
Import
Cleaning Media.
If a job is in progress in the drive you wish to clean, the drive cleaning
operation would fail. Ensure that the drive is free, before you start the
operation.
For the MediaAgent to perform the Clean Drive function, the library's
auto-cleaning feature must be disabled from the library's front panel
menu.
Refer to the library manufacturer's documentation for information on
disabling the library’s auto-clean option from the library’s front
panel.
To
clean a drive
To clean multiple drives in the library:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the library in which you wish to
clean the drives, and then click
Clean Drive.
From the
Clean Drive window, click the drives that you wish to clean. (Use CTRL + click to select multiple drives.)
Click OK.
You can track the progress of the operation in the Event Viewer.
To clean a specific drive in the library:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the drive you wish to
clean, and then click
Clean Drive.
You can track the progress of the operation in the Event Viewer.
NOTES
After the successful completion of the cleaning operation, the
counters linked to drive cleaning are reset. You can view these counters from the
Drive
Properties (Odometers) tab.
Schedule Drive Cleaning
Before you Begin
Ensure that you have a cleaning media available in the Cleaning Media
Pool.
If a job is in progress in the drive you wish to clean, the drive cleaning
operation would fail. Hence, ensure that the drive cleaning operation is
scheduled when no other jobs are scheduled or initiated.
For the MediaAgent to perform the Clean Drive function, the library's
auto-cleaning feature must be disabled from the library's front panel
menu.
Refer to the library manufacturer's documentation for information on
disabling the library’s auto-clean option from the library’s front
panel.
To
schedule the drive cleaning operation:
To create schedules for multiple
drives in the library:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the library to which the drives are
attached, and then click
Clean Drive.
From the
Clean Drives dialog box, click the drives for which you wish to create
the schedules. (Use CTRL + click to select multiple drives.)
The drive cleaning operation will
be executed according to the specified schedule.
NOTES
After the successful completion of the cleaning operation, the MediaAgent resets the
counters that are linked to drive cleaning. You can view these counters from the
Drive
Properties (Odometers) tab.
To associate
(or disassociate) barcode patterns to a Media Group:
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate media group (Default
or <user-defined> scratch pools, Cleaning Media, or
Foreign Media group) and then click Properties.
To disassociate a barcode, click the barcode you wish to disassociate from
the Selected Patterns list and then click Remove.
Click OK to save the changes.
The selected barcodes will be used to identify media and automatically move them
to the appropriate Media pool, if the Enable Auto-Discover Media into default
scratch pool option is enabled in the
Library
Properties (Media) tab.