About StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA)

Oracle's StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA) is an intelligent monitoring application that collects and analyzes data about your tape library environment.

STA is available exclusively for Oracle's StorageTek Modular Tape Libraries. It simplifies tape storage management and helps you make informed decisions about future tape storage investments based on the current health of your environment. STA allows you to monitor globally dispersed libraries from a single, browser-based user interface. You can manage open systems and mainframe mixed-media, and mixed-drive environments across multiple library platforms.

STA's detailed analysis allows you to increase the utilization and performance of your tape investments. A continually updated database of library operations provides the basis for the analytics. STA captures and retains data from your tape library environment and uses this data to calculate the health status of your library resources (drives and media). STA aggregates data according to a variety of criteria and displays it in tabular and graphical formats, allowing you to quickly assess tape environment activity, health, and capacity.

See the STA Installation and Configuration Guide for complete details about the device support, minimum firmware levels, and other requirements

Display STA Software Version Information

Display version information about the STA application and supporting software. This information is useful whenever you contact your Oracle support representative.

  1. Within the GUI, click About in the bottom right of the screen.

  2. The About dialog box displays:

    • STA software version and build information

    • Weblogic server version and patch level

    • Database server version and driver level

    • Database schema version and size information

    • Oracle ADF and SDP information

    • Linux operating system and Java release