Drive Administratio n Buttons
This group of buttons affects selected drives. All the buttons are disabled unless one or more drives are
selected (see figure above).
Lock. Lock the selected drives, making them unavailable to HPSS. When a drive is locked, the
PVL will no longer schedule the PVL drive. When locking a tape drive due to a cartridge problem
(e.g. stuck tape), it is beneficial to also cancel the PVL Job associated with the cartridge.
Additionally, locking the drive is not transferred to the Core Server (CS), therefore t he CS will
continue to read/write/create/mount the Volume (see VV Condition in the Core Server Volume
Disk/Tape window) unless you change the VV Condition to DOWN (or EOM). After pressing
the Drive Administration Lock button, you are prompted to confirm your request before it is
actually executed. The window's message line reports when locking begins. When the request is
complete, another message tells how many requests were successful.
Unlock. Unlock the selected drives, making them available to HPSS. You are prompted to
confirm your request before it is actually executed. The window's message line reports when
unlocking begins. When the request is complete, another message tells how many requests were
successful.
Mark Repaired. Notify the PVL and Mover to clear the error states for the select ed drives.
Sometimes the drive states (such as operational state) will continue to indic ate an error condition
after the cause of the error has been fixed. If so, you can mark a drive repaired to instruct the
Mover or PVL to clear its error states. Note that this does nothing, either in hardware or software,
to actually repair an error condition. Also, if you mark a drive repaired when it still has a problem,
the error states will be cleared but may quickly return to their previous values.
You are prompted to confirm your request before it is actually executed. The window's status bar
displays a message when marking begins, and when the request is complete, another message tells
how many requests were successful.
Dismount. Dismount the selected drives. You are prompted to confirm your request before it is
actually executed. The window's status bar displays a message when dismounting begins. When
the request is complete, another status message tells how many requests were successful.
Information Button s
This group of buttons retrieves the Device or Drive managed object for one or more selected l ist items.
All the buttons are disabled unless one or more devices/drives are selected.
Device Info. Open the Mover Device Information window for the selected it em. If the selected
item’s Mover cannot be contacted, this button will be desensitized. While t his window is open, it
will continue to update reflecting the latest device data from the Mover.
Drive Info. Open the PVL Drive Information window for the selected item. If the PVL cannot be
contacted, this button will be desensitized. While this window is open, i t will continue to update
reflecting the latest drive data from the PVL.
Configuration But tons
This group of buttons allows you to do device/drive configuration.
Create Disk. This button is always active. Clicking on it opens the Disk Device Configurat ion
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