Library and Drive Report

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About this Report

When to use this Report

What this Report Contains

How to Generate the Report

Scheduling the Report

Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

Additional Options

About this Report

The Library and Drive Report provides information about the storage libraries and drives within the CommCell, including the number of libraries, their capacity, and the amount of space left.

When to use this Report

You can use the Library and Drive Report to review information related to the libraries and drives in a CommCell. This report is useful if you need to know:

• The libraries and drives you have configured
Hardware information, such as the model, barcode reader, and capacity
• The controlling MediaAgent, SCSI ID, status, and error counts
• The mount path information for disk libraries
• The library attribute settings for the drive and media
• The job completion rate for the last 24 hours in each library
• Scale and performance information for the last 1 hour and 24 hours
• Details for cloud storage libraries including name, amount of data uploaded, and amount of data downloaded

  What this Report Contains

  This report presents the data in the following sections:

  Sections	Description
  Disk Libraries	This table provides information about the selected disk libraries. Information displayed in the table includes: Library name and associated MediaAgent Storage capacity Mount path information, including  job completion rate and file fragmentation analysis Amount of space that is left in the library and the amount of space that is currently occupied
  Tape and Optical Libraries	This table provides information about the selected tape and optical libraries. Information displayed in the table includes: Library name and hardware model and version number The number of drives and their status The user groups that have access to the drives
  Drive	This table provides information about each individual drive. Information displayed in the table includes: Drive name, model, and version number Media type used in the drive Last time the drive was cleaned Status of the drive
  Library	This table provides a summary of information about the library. Information displayed in the table includes: Associated drives, percentage of usage, and drive throughput rate per hour and per 24 hours Number of jobs and errors
  MediaAgent	This table provides a summary of information about the MediaAgent. Information displayed in the table includes: Name of MediaAgent Number of mounts, maximum number of streams, number of reservations, and average number of jobs per hour and per 24 hours Backup size

   

  How to Generate the Report

  1.	On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button. The Report Selection dialog box appears.
  2.	From the Reports pane, select Library and Drive, and then click Run. The report appears in your default Web browser.

  Scheduling the Report

  1.	From the CommCell Browser, click the Tools menu and click Reports. In the Report Selection pane, click a report and click Schedule.
  2.	Type a name in the Schedule Name box. Select Daily. Type the Start Time to start the schedule. Click Ok.

  Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

  You can further customize the report by using the tabs that are available in the Report Selection dialog box. The following table describes the available report options for this report.

  Options	Description
  General	You can set the report to display information for all libraries in the CommCell, or select individual libraries.
  Output	You can set the report output to appear in one of several  formats and save it to a variety of locations. Set any of the following options: Generate the report in HTML, Text separated by commas or tabs, or PDF. For the Text output, reports that consist of multiple tables contain each table in a separate text file. Therefore, the text output for one report might consist of multiple text files. Enter a location to save the report in one of these locations: On your local computer On a shared network drive An FTP location to which you can upload. When the text output consists of multiple files, they are compressed into a CAB file and sent as an attachment. Text output that consists of a single file is sent according to your settings. Choose a language from the Choose Locale list to set the report to appear in that language.

  Additional Options

  The following table describes additional operations that you can perform with the reports feature:

  Option	Description	Related topics
  Saving the Report Output	You can save the report output to a specified location. On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button. The Report Selection dialog box appears. From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to generate. From the Output Format section, select a file format. HTML Text PDF Select Output To, and then enter the location to which you want to save the report. To save the report to your local computer, select Use Local Drive On, and then in the Report Copy Location box, enter a location. To save the report to a shared network drive, select Use Network Share, and then in the Report Copy Location box, enter a location. To upload the report to an FTP site, select FTP Upload, and then click Settings to enter the FTP location and your credentials. From the Choose Locale list, select the language in which you want the report to appear. At the bottom of the Report Selection dialog box, click Run. The report opens in the file format that you specified and a copy of the report is saved to the location that you entered.
  Saving a Report as a Template	You can save the report settings as a template in the CommCell Console, and then run the report at any time. On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button. The Report Selection dialog box appears. From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to save. At the bottom of the Report Selection dialog box, click Save As. The Save As dialog box appears. Select Save a Report, and then enter a name for the report template in the box. Click OK. The report template appears under Reports > My Reports on the General tab.
  Generating a Report from a Template	You can generate a report from a template at any time. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General. The General tab appears in the CommCell Console. In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to generate, and then select Run Immediately. The report opens in the format that is specified in the template.
  Modifying a Report Template	From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General. The General tab appears in the CommCell Console. In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to change, and then select Edit. The Saved Reports dialog box appears. Select the Report Details tab, and then make changes on any of the available tabs. Click OK to save your settings.
  Cloning a Report Template	From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General. The General tab appears in the CommCell Console. In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to clone, and then select Edit. The Saved Reports dialog box appears. Select the Job Initiation tab, and then select Saved Report. Select Clone this report as, and then enter a name in the box. Click OK. The cloned report appears in the General tab.
  Deleting a Report Template	From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General. The General tab appears in the CommCell Console. In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to delete, and then select Delete. A message appears that asks if you are sure that you want to delete the selected Report Template. Click Yes. The report is removed from the General tab.
  Setting a Report Alert	This option allows users or user groups to get an automatic notification when a report is created. If the report output consists of multiple text files, they are compressed into a CAB file and sent as an attachment. Text output that consists of a single file is sent according to your settings. Follow the steps given below to set up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts: From the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button. The Report Selection dialog box appears. From the Reports pane, select a report, and then click Schedule. The Schedule Details dialog box appears. Select the Notification tab, and then click Add Alert. From the Add Alert Wizard dialog box, select the types of notifications that you want to send, and then click Next. Add recipients to the selected list. To add a recipient that is a user in the CommCell, from the Available list, select a user, and then click Add. To add a recipient that is not a user in the CommCell, in the Email to Recipients box, enter an e-mail address. Click Next, and then click Finish. Click OK to save your settings.	Refer to Alerts.
  Saving a Report as a Script	The Command Line Interface allows you to generate reports from the command line. The commands can be executed from the command line or can be integrated into scripts. You can generate command line scripts for specific operations in the CommCell Console by using the Save As Script option. To create an XML script that generates a report: From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General. The General tab appears in the CommCell Console. In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to save as a script, and then select Edit. The Saved Reports dialog box appears. Select the Job Initiation tab, and then click Save As Script The Save As Script dialog box appears. Enter the appropriate settings to generate a script file. From the Client list, select the name of the client where you want to save the script. In the Path box, enter the file path where you want to save the script, and then enter a name for the script file at the end of the path. Ensure that the name of the file contains the .xml extension Click OK to create the script. A message appears that says that the script saved successfully Click OK. The Save As Script and the Saved Reports dialog boxes close.	Refer to Command Line Interface.