Procedure
From the Work Items navigation pane, select
Manage Drives —> Drive Assignment
. The
Drive Assignment screen displays. Yellow column headings indicate which logical libraries
contain element address gaps.
Parent topic:
Using the drive assignment Web page
Working with a cartridge assignment policy
This section defines a cartridge assignment policy. It gives procedures for creating,
changing, or removing the policy.
About this task
Note:
The cartridge assignment policy does not reassign an assigned tape cartridge. To
reassign a cartridge, use the procedure for assigning cartridges to a logical library.
When you insert a cartridge into the library and its VOLSER is within a range, the cartridge
assignment policy assigns the cartridge to its logical library. The cartridge must be of the
same media type as that logical library. For example, if you create a cartridge assignment
policy of VOLSERs that range from ABC000 to ABC999 for Logical Library 1 (a library of
Ultrium drives), and then you insert a cartridge with VOLSER ABC123, the library recognizes
that VOLSER as belonging to the range and assigns it to Logical Library 1. The library does
this provided that the cartridge is an Ultrium tape cartridge (and not a different media type,
such as a 3592 tape cartridge).
A cartridge assignment policy can also be created for All Other Volsers. This represents all
VOLSERs not covered by specific ranges in the cartridge assignment policy. If you do not
want these cartridges to be assigned to an active logical library, then you can create a new
drive-less logical library and have the All Other Volsers automatically assigned to that logical
library. In this way, the drive-less logical library becomes a safe media vault. Note that a
drive-less logical library consumes no additional resources in a TS3500 Tape Library with
ALMS. Subsequently, these All Other Volsers can be manually assigned to a different logical
library using the Tape Library Specialist Web interface or the TS3500 Tape Library
Command Line Interface (CLI).
Within a physical library, the maximum quantity of ranges that can be created by the
cartridge policy assignment is 300; for logical libraries, the sum of all cartridge assignment
policies must not exceed 300.
To establish a cartridge assignment policy, perform the following steps:
