Auto Eject stand alone tape device

Question

I have an Powervault 110t LTO3 device which is connected to a storage node and is a shared device. We are using Auto Media Management. How do we get the tape to eject automatically after it has finished all the sessions?

HabibG2 · Answer

Using NW GUI select View/ Diagnostic Mode.
Go to the ddevice and select your device, Right click and select properties.
Select the "Timers" tab. and change the settings for "Idle device Timeout" from zero to 1 say.

Click on the field help at the bottom of the screen for more help.

Hari5 · Answer

The value refers to the number of minutes the drive is idle before an eject is done. For example, a value of 1 would mean that the drive would eject after the drive is idle for 1 minute. 0 means it would never eject. This is the default value.

HabibG2 · Answer

Did you read the field help at the bottom of the screen as I mentioned earlier?

adrian.saunders · Answer

sorry ignore that someebody else ejected the tape manually.

adrian.saunders · Answer

okay I just set the idle time out to 5 and its ejected the tape 5 mins later.Will this eject a tape 5 mins after I load it ?

adrian.saunders · Answer

Ah I set it to 300 (I thought it was in seconds) Doh.Anyway the backup job finished 7:30pm last night so it should have ejected the tape at 12:30am which it hasn't.Any other ideas?

adrian.saunders · Answer

Yes I did

ble1 · Answer

Whenever your idle device timeout setting will work or not depends also on NW version. Prior to 7.3.x idle device timeout worked only for certain jukebox/device configurations.

adrian.saunders · Answer

We are using 7.4 sp1 build 335

ble1 · Answer

In that case idle device timeout should apply to you (be aware that this setting is available at device and jukebox level - what we discuss here is at jukebox level).

Hari5 · Answer

If you set the idle device time out value at x for a particular device, the device will eject the media after being idle for x minutes. If you just load the tape and no backup or restore activity happens from this tape, the tape will eject x minutes after it is mounted. Trust that explains.

Hari5 · Answer

I actually have my doubts as to if it works on the device level. I know it works on the jukebox level but I have never tried it on the device level and so I can't comment on that. On the device level, I did notice that this parameter comes under the 'jukebox device' heading in the configuration.

ble1 · Answer

As I said, this parameter exists on device and jukebox level. The discussion in this thread is related to the one on jukebox level only.

Hari5 · Answer

I thought we were talking about devices and not jukeboxes ....

ble1 · Answer

And you were right I completely failed to read what is title of this thread and went on wrong track. For standalone device I never really tried this, especially with new versions...

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