IBM Magstar 3494 manual Offline Request Pop-Up Window

Offline

Select Offline for the cartridge accessor to complete all queued requests. No additional requests are accepted. During the processing of queued requests, the 3494 is in the Offline Pending state. If Offline is selected and the library manager is already Offline, the selection is ignored and no messages are sent to the attached hosts. The pop-up window indicates Offline Pending while the library manager is in the process of going Offline.

You are prompted to con®rm the selection. The select button in front ofOffline indicates that the Offline state was selected.

The Offline Request pop-up window (see Figure 47) instructs the operator to vary the library Offline and to resolve any intervention-required conditions.

Figure 47. Offline Request Pop-Up Window

The library manager cannot go to the Offline state if an Export or an Import

operation is in progress. If the operator attempts to do this, the pop-up message

shown in Figure 48 on page 104 will be displayed alerting the operator to do one of

the following:

v Wait for the operation to complete.

v Cancel the operation from the host.

v Cancel the operation by selecting ªCancel VTS Export/Importº from the

Commands/System Management pulldown.

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