NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.03+)

Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
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Monitoring Tape Drives
For further information, refer to the document on Integrity NonStop NS-Series
Supported Hardware and the Integrity NonStop NS-Series Hardware Installation
Manual.
Monitoring Tape Drives
This section describes the various methods of tape drives, which include:
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OSM Service Connection
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SCF
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Use MEDIACOM to monitor the use of tape drives and to write tape labels.
Monitoring Tape Drive Status With OSM
To check the status of all tape drives on your system:
1. Log on to the OSM Service Connection.
2. In the tree pane, expand the system object and check the Tape Collection object.
A yellow arrow displayed over the Tape Collection object (see Figure 11-1)
indicates that a problem exists with one or more of the tape drives connected to
the system.
3. Expand the Tape Collection object and select the tape drive displaying a red or
yellow triangular symbol over the tape drive object or bell-shaped symbol next to
the object. For an example of an FCSA-connected tape drive, see Figure 11-1; for
an IOMF2-connected tape drive, see Figure 11-2.
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If a red or yellow triangular symbol is displayed over the tape drive object,
check the Attributes tab for the specific attribute reporting a degraded value.
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If a bell-shaped symbol is displayed next to the object, select the Alarms tab,
click to select the alarm, then right-click and select Details to get more
information about the alarm.