Preface

This guide provides information about using and interpreting some advanced features of Oracle's StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA). It provides concepts and procedures for using these features.

Audience

This document is intended for new and experienced users of STA.

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Related Documents

The STA documentation set consists of the following documents.

For users of the STA application

• STA Quick Start Guide—Use this guide to introduce yourself to the STA application and some features of the user interface.

• STA User’s Guide—Use this guide for instructions on using STA application features, such as the Dashboard, templates, filters, alerts, Executive Reports, logical groups, and STA media validation.

• STA Screen Basics Guide—Use this guide for details about the STA user interface. It describes the screen navigation and layout, and the use of graphs and tables.

• STA Data Reference Guide—Use this guide to look up definitions for all STA tape library system screens and data attributes.

For installers and administrators of the STA server and application

• STA Release Notes—Read this document before installing and using STA. It contains important release information, including known issues. This document is provided with the STA media pack download.

• STA Requirements Guide—Use this guide to learn about minimum and recommended requirements for using STA. This guide includes the following requirements: library, drive, server, user interface, STA media validation, and IBM RACF access control.

• STA Installation and Configuration Guide—Use this guide to plan for installation of STA, install the Linux operating system, install the STA application, and then configure library connections, users, and email addresses.

• STA Administration Guide—Use this guide to learn about STA administrative tasks, such as error logging, server administration, database backup and restore, STA services configuration, password administration, and SNMP connection configuration.

• STA Security Guide—Read this document for important STA security information, including requirements, recommendations, and general security principles.

• Third Party Licenses and Notices—Read this document for information about use of third-party technology distributed with the STA product.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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