Drive Cleaning Warning

Note – This section is applicable only to SL3000 and SL8500 libraries.

The drive cleaning warning flag indicates whether a drive warning should be issued whenever a drive needs cleaning. This flag is set at the library level, so the same setting applies to all drives in a library.

When the flag is set to “on”, each drive will show a warning health status whenever it needs cleaning. This will also cause the top-level health status of the library to be degraded in the STA monitor.

When the flag is set to “off”, each drive’s status will not be affected by the need for cleaning. Therefore, the library top-level status in STA will not be degraded.

If you have a large number of drives in the library, you may want to set this flag to “off” so that the library top-level condition is not degraded whenever one of them needs cleaning.

See “Set the Drive Cleaning Warning” for detailed instructions.