8 Cartridge Management
ACSLS provides sophisticated cartridge management features. These features are provided in several ways:
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Automatically, such as the recovery of lost cartridges.
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Enabled by default, such as retaining information about absent and ejected cartridges.
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Customer defined, such as assigning volume attributes when cartridges are added to the database by audit or when they are entered through a CAP.
Using appropriate cartridge management features enhance the value that ACSLS provides.
Cartridge management consists of the following:
- Populating the LSM
- Using the CAP
- Entering Cartridges
- Ejecting Cartridges
- Recovering CAPs
- Automatically Applying Policies to New and Reactivated Cartridges
- Cleaning Cartridges
- Managing Scratch Cartridges
- Using Absent and Ejected Cartridge Support
- Absent, Ejected and Missing Cartridges
- Cartridge Recovery
- Missing Cartridges
- Absent and Ejected Cartridge
- Using the Manual Volume Delete Utility
- Identifying Expired Cartridges
- Moving Least-Recently Accessed Cartridges from Active LSMs
- Manually Loading Cartridges Into Drives in a Disabled LSM