Chapter 4 Running Your Library
About Cleaning Tape Drives
Scalar i500 User’s Guide
138
Manual Cleaning
— When a tape drive needs cleaning, it notifies the
library. If the library’s AutoClean feature is not enabled (no cleaning slots
have been configured), the library generates a RAS ticket informing the
user that the tape drive needs cleaning. Administrative users can clean
tape drives manually at any time, using commands on the operator panel
or web client. For more information, see
Manually Cleaning Tape Drives
on page 141.
Enabling AutoClean
4
To enable AutoClean, an administrative user must configure at least one
cleaning slot in the library. For information on configuring cleaning slots,
see
Configuring Cleaning Slots
on page 71. For a description of
AutoClean, see
About Cleaning Tape Drives
on page 137.
Importing Cleaning Media
4
When AutoClean is enabled (at least one cleaning slot has been
configured), you can use the Import Cleaning Media operation to import
cleaning cartridges from the I/E station to designated cleaning slots. For
information on configuring cleaning slots, see
Configuring Cleaning Slots
on page 71. For a description of AutoClean, see
About Cleaning Tape
Drives
on page 137.
When manual cartridge assignment is enabled (the default setting), you
cannot import cartridges until you have assigned them to a specific
partition or to the system partition. Cleaning cartridges should always be
assigned to the system partition. Assigning cleaning cartridges to the
system partition makes them available to all partitions in the library. For
more information about manual cartridge assignment, see
Importing
Media
on page 127 and
Disabling/Enabling Manual Cartridge
Assignment
on page 70.
You must have access to the library’s I/E station and the operator panel
to import cleaning cartridges.
Note:
Cleaning slots are not visible to the host application. To choose
host-based cleaning, do not configure any cleaning slots, and
configure your host application to manage cleaning tape
drives. Configuring cleaning slots on the library may affect the
host application. See your host application documentation for
information.