Alert Entities

Alert entities correspond to a particular type of tape library resources and events.

The supported entities are:

  • Library complex
  • Library
  • Drive
  • Media
  • Robot
  • CAP
  • PTP – Relevant only to SL8500 libraries.
  • Elevator – Relevant only to SL8500 libraries.
  • Exchange – See Alert Severities for information about how Exchange alert policies are processed differently from other policy types.
  • Media validation – Applies only if media validation is enabled in STA. Alerts are triggered by final validation results only, not intermediate results.
  • STA application itself – Notifies whenever the STA application restarts.