Creating Parameters Files for Network-Attached Automated Libraries

Chapter 4

If you have network-attached automated libraries in your Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM-QFS) environment, you must have a parameters file for each library. You must configure your storage devices first, as described in Chapter 2, Configuring Storage Devices for Archiving.

You can include automated libraries in a SAM-QFS environment either by directly attaching them to the server or by attaching them to the environment's network. Libraries that are attached through a SCSI or Fibre Channel (FC) attachment are direct-attached libraries. Libraries that are attached through a network attachment are network-attached libraries. This chapter describes how to create a parameters file for each network-attached library to be included in your environment.

Note - The examples and the discussions in the following sections mention both the parameters files for network-attached automated libraries and the mcf file. The mcf file is the main configuration file for the SAM-QFS software. For more information about creating an mcf file, see Chapter 7, Configuring the File System Environment, in Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Installation Guide. The parameters file and the mcf file are both mentioned in this section because the two files reference each other.

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