8 Cartridge Management

ACSLS provides sophisticated cartridge management features. These features are provided in several ways:

• Automatically, such as the recovery of lost cartridges.

• Enabled by default, such as retaining information about absent and ejected cartridges.

• 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