HP Storage Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Linux and Mac User Guide

5 HP TapeAssure drive monitoring
A drive-monitoring service for HP LTFS on Linux and on Mac OS X is available as a separate
download, offering access to:
• Drive Health—write/read quality levels, key drive life indicators, and any service actions
• Drive Performance—host and media transfer rates and compression ratios
• Drive Utilization—the time the drive is in use, as a percentage
• Tape Health—effective capacity, key tape life indicators and any service actions
• Tape Utilization—write and read data volumes and capacity used
The download has two parts:
• The TapeAssure service that runs on the LTFS server
• CommandView TL, which is used to store and view the TapeAssure data
Note that CommandView TL is a web-based management application for HP’s enterprise tape
libraries that runs on Windows systems and needs to have network connectivity with the TapeAssure
service. It is used with the HP LTFS TapeAssure service in this configuration for access to the
TapeAssure data only and references to library functionality should be ignored.
See http://www.hp.com/go/tapeassure for further details, downloads and user guides.
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