Alert Entities

Alert entities correspond to a particular type of tape library resources and events.

The supported entities are:

• Library complex

• Library

• Drive

• Media

• Robot

• CAP

• PTP – Relevant only to SL8500 libraries.

• Elevator – Relevant only to SL8500 libraries.

• Exchange – See Alert Severities for information about how Exchange alert policies are processed differently from other policy types.

• Media validation – Applies only if media validation is enabled in STA. Alerts are triggered by final validation results only, not intermediate results. See Media Validation for details.

• STA application itself – Notifies whenever the STA application restarts.