Set the Drive Cleaning Warning (optional, SL3000 and SL8500 only)

Check the current setting of the drive cleaning warning flag and change it if necessary.

If you have numerous drives in the library, you may want to set this flag to "off" so that the library top-level condition is not degraded whenever a drive needs cleaning.

See also How the Drive Clean Warning Affects STA Data (SL3000 and SL8500 only).

  1. Using the CLI, display the current setting of the drive cleaning warning flag.
    SL3000> cleaning driveWarning get
     ...
     Object Drive Cleaning Warning true
     ...
  2. If you want to set the flag to false (off), use the following command:
    cleaning driveWarning set off

How the Drive Clean Warning Affects STA Data (SL3000 and SL8500 only)

The drive cleaning warning flag indicates whether a drive warning should be issued whenever a drive needs cleaning. This flag is set at the library level, so the same setting applies to all drives in a library.

  • When the flag is set to "on", each drive shows a warning health status whenever it needs cleaning. This also causes the top-level health status of the library to be degraded in the STA monitor and in SLC.

  • When the flag is set to "off", each drive's status is not affected by the need for cleaning; therefore, the library top-level status in STA is not degraded.