Using Manual Ekm Path Diagnostics - Quantum scalar i500 User Manual

Using Manual EKM Path
Diagnostics
Scalar i500 User's Guide
• The Automatic diagnostics does not take partitions offline, but it may
delay moves to tape drives while they are being tested.
• The Manual diagnostics requires that you select one tape drive to use
for the test. Since the test only validates the selected drive, if you
want to test the path for each tape drive, you must run the test
multiple times (once for each drive). In addition, if the tape drive is
not available (it must be unloaded, ready, and online), the Drive,
Path, and Config tests are not performed.
• The Automatic diagnostics tests every connected EKM server in turn,
and the library selects the tape drive to use for each test. If the
selected tape drive is not available (it must be unloaded, ready, and
online), then the library tries another tape drive that is connected to
the key server until it finds one that is available. If no tape drives
connected to a particular key server are available, then that server is
skipped and the tests are not performed. If a server is skipped for "X"
number of consecutive test intervals (where "X" is configurable on
the Web client), the library generates a RAS ticket. If a tape drive
remains loaded for a long time, it is possible that it will never be
tested. If you want to test a specific tape drive, then you should use
the Manual EKM Path Diagnostics. In particular, if you replace a tape
drive, run the Manual EKM Path Diagnostics.
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1 Access the EKM Path Diagnostics screen in one of two ways:
• Enter library Diagnostics. From the Web client select Tools >
Diagnostics, and click OK to the message that appears. From the
Diagnostics menu, select EKM > EKM Path Diagnostics.
Note:
• Select Setup > Encryption > System Configuration or Setup >
Encryption > Partition Configuration and click the link that says
"Click here to run EKM Path Diagnostics."
Chapter 7 Encryption Key Management
Configuring Encryption Key Management on the Library
Performing Diagnostics will log off all other users of
the same or lower privileges and take your partitions
offline. When you exit Diagnostics, the partitions
automatically come back online.
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