The Cleaning Media report displays detailed status information for the
cleaning media libraries in a CommCell as well as their associated cleaning
mediums.
Use this report to check the average usage of cleaning media libraries as
well as the cleaning media details per library for a CommCell.
This report helps to detect issues with the drives and/or cleaning media. For
example, if the average usage for a cleaning media is high for a specific
library it may indicate that there is an issue with the associated drives.
This report presents the data in the following sections:
Section
Description
Cleaning Media Library/Media Repository Usage
Aggregate
The table
displays the following information for all the cleaning media libraries in the selected
CommCell:
Total number of cleaning media associated with the library.
Total number of cleaning media used within the library.
Average usage of the library's cleaning media.
Total number of times the cleaning media has been used.
The average usage is calculated by dividing
the Total Usage by the Total Number of Media. This
calculation includes expired media, but not deleted media.
Cleaning Media Detail
The table displays the following information for all the cleaning mediums in the
selected CommCell:
Name of the associated library.
Barcode information.
Creation time (time of discovery and expiration status).
Number of times the cleaning medium has been used.
Threshold for number of uses.
Average usage (14 day basis).
The average usage is calculated by dividing
the total usage by the number of 14 day intervals that have
passed within the time range. This calculation includes expired
media, but not deleted media.
After a report is generated, you can schedule a new report and save it
to an specific location as a PDF, excel spreadsheet or MHTML file.
Scheduling and saving reports will help you analyze and compare data
from your CommCells.
Follow the steps below to create a schedule:
Click Schedule from the top of the report window.
Type the name of the schedule and enter a description.
Click Next.
Select the appropriate schedule options. For example:
Select the time zone.
Select the start date and the frequency to generate the report.
Change the Start Time to 9:00 PM
Click Repeat Task and configure at which interval the
schedule should be repeated.
Click Next.
Select the file format.
Click Save To File to save the report to a local drive or
network share.
Specify the Destination Path for the output
file.
You can also click Send E-Mail to User(s) and/or User Groups(s) to
send the report as an email attachment to a user or user group.
Click Finish.
The report will be generated as
specified in the schedule task.
You can further customize the report by using
the filters available in the report. To access the filter options, click Filters
at the top of the report window as shown in the image. After making your
selections, click Generate to update the report.
The following table describes the available filter options.
Filter
Description
CommCell Selection
You can refine your selection by adding or removing CommCells
from the
Selected pane.