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Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management
The following table provides information about different possible
scenarios for adding cartridges to the MLM database.
If you...
Recently purchased your
library and are importing
cartridges into the library for
the first time,
Have an existing library with
the most current BlueScale
version installed. Cartridges
are already imported into the
library, but you just recently
enabled MLM,
August 2019
Do this to add the cartridges to the MLM database...
1. Make sure that MLM is enabled (see Enabling MLM and
Configuring Global Settings on page 255).
2. If desired, enable PreScan (see Using PreScan on page 266).
3. Import media into the partitions to trigger the automatic discovery
process.
Important: Discovery cannot begin while the hosts are actively
loading cartridges into and unloading cartridges from drives. If you
import cartridges during this time, the library posts a failure
message stating that no drives are available. Either wait until the
library is idle before importing cartridges or manually start the
discovery process when the library is idle.
1. If you want to detect any non‐MLM‐enabled cartridges being
imported, temporarily enable the alert on the Media Lifecycle
Management Settings screen (see Enable Alerts for Non‐Certified
Media on page 257). The alert is disabled by default.
2. If desired, enable PreScan (see Using PreScan on page 266).
3. Discover the cartridges in the library using one of the following
methods:
 Import new cartridges into the partition to trigger the automatic
discovery process. If you do not have PreScan enabled, the
discovery process only checks cartridges that are not already in
the MLM database. If PreScan is enabled, all of the cartridges in
the partition are processed, regardless of whether or not they are
already in the MLM database.
Important: Discovery cannot begin while the hosts are actively
loading cartridges into and unloading cartridges from drives. If you
import cartridges during this time, the library posts a failure
message stating that no drives are available. Either wait until the
library is idle before importing cartridges or manually start the
discovery process when the library is idle.
 If you do not want to wait until you import new cartridges to
have the cartridges already in the library added to the MLM
database, manually start the discovery process (see Discover
Cartridges Manually).
 Use your storage management software to load each cartridge
into an drive and then unload it.
 Let the library update the MLM database as part of normal
operation. The information for each cartridge is added to the
MLM database the first time the cartridge is loaded into and then
unloaded from a drive.
4. When the initial discovery process is complete, disable the alert
about non‐MLM‐enabled media, if desired.
5. To routinely verify the readability of the cartridges, configure
PostScan for each partition in the library (see Using PostScan on
page 267).
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