Understanding The Cartridge Inventory; Viewing And Downloading The Cartridge Inventory - Spectra Logic Spectra T950V User Manual

Chapter 8 — Using the Cartridge Inventory
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NDERSTANDING THE
The inventory is a record of all the cartridges stored in each library
partition and their current locations (for example, in a specific slot in a
TeraPack magazine, or in a drive). As cartridges are imported into a
partition, the barcode reader on the transporter reads the barcode labels on
the individual cartridges and the magazines. The library uses this barcode
information to maintain its physical inventory, which is stored in the RCM.
The Inventory screen, available from the General toolbar, lets you interact
with the cartridge inventory in the following ways:
If you want to...
View information
about the
cartridges in a
partition,
Locate a specific
cartridge in the
partition,
Move a cartridge
from one location
to another,
V
IEWING AND
Overview The Inventory screen provides information about the cartridge
inventory for each of the partitions configured in the library. It also
provides options for interacting with that inventory to move cartridges
from one location to another.
Requirements When using the Inventory screen, keep the following
requirements in mind:
 Any user with operator privileges who is assigned to the partition and
 Downloading an XML file containing the current cartridge inventory
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The inventory screen lets you...
 View the cartridges located in a storage partition's storage pool, its entry/exit
pool, or a drive.
 View the cartridges located in a cleaning partition and identify expired
cartridges. An "x" appears next to the slot number if the cleaning cartridge is
expired.
 Download an XML file that lists the inventory of every location in the
selected storage partition (see Download the Cartridge Inventory on
page 229).
Search for a cartridge using either its barcode label information or its slot
location (see Locating a Specific Cartridge on page 233).
 Find and select a specific cartridge within a partition and move it to another
location (see Moving Cartridges Within a Partition on page 233).
 Automate a series of moves in a storage partition by uploading a specially
formatted ASCII text file that contains a sequence of moves to the partition
(see Create a Move Queue File on page 239).
D
OWNLOADING THE
all users with superuser or administrator privileges can view and
download the cartridge inventory.
for a partition requires either a remote connection to the library using
the BlueScale web interface (RLC) or a USB device connected to the
library.

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