Taking A Partition Online Or Offline - Quantum scalar i500 User Manual

Taking a Partition Online
or Offline
Scalar i500 User's Guide
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the Web client, select
.
Accounts
• From the operator panel, select
There are two partition modes: online and offline.
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• — SCSI hosts control the partition. In this mode, all host
Online
application SCSI commands are processed.
• — SCSI hosts cannot control the partition. In this mode,
Offline
library operations can be performed via the operator panel or Web
client.
This topic focuses on using the library user interface to manually change
a partition mode to online or offline. Changing a partition mode using the
library user interface may affect your host application. See your host
application documentation for more information.
Details about changing the partition mode include:
• When you access the
partitions to which you have been given access.
• The
Online/Offline
• If a partition is in use, the
• Restarting the library will bring all offline partitions back online (see
Restarting the Library
Note: Some maintenance activities require that the entire library be
taken offline. To take the library offline, change the mode of all
partitions from online to offline.
Note: When changing the partition mode from online to offline, all
host application commands in progress at the start of the
mode change are completed.
Chapter 3 Configuring Your Library
Setup > User Management > User
Setup > User Mgmt > Modify User
Change Partition Mode
buttons toggle between modes.
Online/Offline
on page 243).
Working With Partitions
screens, you will see only
button is grayed out.
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