StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA)

StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA) is an intelligent monitoring application for tape libraries.

STA simplifies tape storage management and allows you to make informed decisions about future tape storage investments based on the current health of the tape storage environment. STA tracks mounts, dismounts, and media usage within your tape library system. STA requires a dedicated server. Oracle recommends that you place the STA server on the same subnet as the library to improve SNMP UDP reliability. To set up communications between the STA server and the libraries, you must perform some configuration procedures on the libraries and some on the STA server.

For more information, refer to the STA documentation at: https://docs.oracle.com/en/storage/storage-software/storagetek-tape-analytics/

Oracle recommends minimum STA version 2.2.1 to support the SL150 Library.

Why aren't the SL150 media validation drives appearing in STA?

For media validation drives to appear in STA, you must set the Drive Element Addressing mode to Address All Drive Slots. Note that this setting conflicts with what is required for ACSLS.