User`s guide

Partitioning Process
154 SL500 User’s Guide • July 2008 Revision: KA • 96116
Information in the SL Console partition workspace is committed to the library
controller database only through the Commit (Step 4) screen. The information is lost if
any one of the following occurs before you have committed your updates:
■ You actively log off the SL Console session.
■ The SL Console session times out or the connection to the library is lost.
■ You actively refresh the SL Console workspace from the current library controller
database. This is done through the Refresh button on the Summary (Step 2) and
Design (Step 3) screens.
Caution – For the following reasons, it is recommended that you make the library
unavailable to other users before committing your partition workspace changes.
There is no real-time validation of partition boundaries against the library controller
database; therefore if you do not make the library unavailable and other users are
performing cartridge movements or library configuration changes, configuration
conflicts may arise. See “Synchronizing the Display With the Controller Database” on
page 31 for details.
The library temporarily drops all connections to HSC or ACSLS hosts when partition
configurations changes are committed. The hosts will automatically reconnect, but
multiple error messages will be displayed, and cartridge management tasks in progress
may fail.