1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Cartridge Management
  3. Using Absent and Ejected Cartridge Support

Using Absent and Ejected Cartridge Support

Absent cartridge support in ACSLS marks cartridges that cannot be found in the library as absent, instead of deleting them. If these cartridges are later found in the library, ACSLS changes them to active status instead of re-adding them to the database. Reactivation preserves the access count and settings, such as pool, volume access control ownership, and locks.

Similarly, ejected cartridge support retains cartridge information when cartridges are ejected. The cartridges are reactivated when they are re-entered.

Absent and ejected volume support is enabled when the ABSENT_VOLUME_RETENTION_PERIOD is set to a nonzero number of days. The default value is 5 days.

Additional aspects of absent and ejected cartridge support include:

  • The Manual Volume Delete (del_vol) utility will retain volumes as absent unless the -d option is specified. If this option is specified, the volume is deleted without waiting for the expiration of an absent or ejected status.

  • ACSLS queries SL3000 and SL8500 libraries for the location of lost cartridges.

  • ACSLS improves volume recovery by searching for volumes that are not found in their expected locations in the library. ACSLS searches all recorded locations instead of automatically deleting the volume.

  • Clients can specify, through the ENABLE_STATUS_VOLUME_ABSENT and ENABLE_STATUS_VOLUME_MISSING configuration settings, whether they want absent, ejected, and missing statuses to be reported through the ACSAPI.

  • The volrpt utility with the -i option will report volume records with a status of absent or ejected. By default, volrpt does not report absent or ejected volumes.