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Section 3 Menu Functions
time that volumes have been mounted in that drive. If the drive is in a robotic library that supports drive
cleaning and a cleaning cartridge is defined in that robotic library, cleaning occurs when the
accumulated mount time exceeds the time you specify for cleaning frequency. The mount time is reset
when the drive is cleaned. If you do not specify a cleaning frequency (the default frequency is zero),
you can still use automated drive cleaning with the TapeAlert feature, provided the following conditions
have been met:
The drive supports TapeAlert.
A cleaning volume has been defined in Media Manager.
The host platform, robot type, and drive support drive cleaning.
If drive is robotic library specify option Drive is in robotic library and specify library parameters.
Robotic Library
This dialog box allows you to select any currently configured robotic library that can control the drive.
Robot Drive Number
Robot drive number specifies the physical location in the robot of the drive that you are adding. When
adding more than one drive to a robot, you can add the physical drives in any order. For example, in a
TL8 robot you can add drive 2 before drive 1. If you assign the wrong number Media Manager does not
detect it initially, but an error will occur when the robotic control attempts to mount media on the wrong
drive. Configuration of drives using the correct Robot Drive Number is important to the proper mounting
and utilization of media. The Robot Drive Number, commonly set based on correlation of the drive serial
number with drive serial number information from the robotic library, should be determined and
validated before the device configuration is considered complete.
Configuration of media used.
Media Manager volumes are logical units of data storage or cleaning capability on media that have
been assigned media IDs and other attributes, which are recorded in the EMM database. The attributes
in the database include information to show the robotic location. This residence information for a
volume includes the robot host, robot type, robot number, and slot location.
In the NetBackup Administration Console, select Media and Device Management
Media. A media
management window similar to the following appears.
