Users Guide

Chapter 9 Running Your Library
About Cleaning Tape Drives
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If the Assign I/E screen appears, do the following:
a On the Assign I/E screen, select System.
The System button turns blue after it is selected. Selecting System
assigns the cartridge to the physical library and not to a specific
partition.
b Select Apply.
3 Use the Import Cleaning Media screen on either the operator panel or
the Web client to import the cleaning cartridges into the library.
Follow the on-screen prompts, or see the library’s online Help for
step-by-step procedures. To access the online Help system, click the
Help icon at the top right of the Web client or operator panel user
interface.
You need to provide the following information in the Import Cleaning
Media
screens to import media:
• Media — the cleaning cartridges that you want to import.
The screen includes information about the number of empty cleaning
slots in the library. The number of cleaning cartridges you can import is
limited to the number of empty cleaning slots.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the Web client, select Operations > Cleaning Media > Import.
• From the operator panel, select Operations > Import Cleaning Media.
Exporting Cleaning Media9
When AutoClean is enabled, you can use the Export Cleaning Media
operation to export one or more cleaning cartridges from dedicated
cleaning slots to the I/E station for removal from the library. You may
need to export expired cleaning cartridges or free up cleaning slots for
data storage.
After exporting cleaning cartridges, you can reduce the number of
configured cleaning slots. The extra slots become available for use as
Note: You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a
barcode in the Search text box. Use an asterisk (*) to search
with wildcards. You can also sort the list by clicking on
columns with bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location column heading sorts the list by location coordinates.