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Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management
Icon Health score
49 – 0
6. If you want to view detailed information about a specific cartridge, use
To find a cartridge
using the...
Cartridge list
Barcode label
information
August 2019
Meaning
The media health is Poor.
 Data cartridge: When the Health graph on the Details screen for the cartridge
falls below a health score of 50, the media health icon changes to red. The
combination of media errors, tape age, and usage indicates that the media
reached the end of its useful life for reliable data backups and restores and
should be retired.
If you are experiencing an unexpected number of cartridges with poor media
health, you may want to investigate further:
 Review the media health data for each cartridge to see if it has a high error
rate. A high error rate can indicate either that the media health is poor and
the cartridge should be retired or that the cartridge was written to by a
drive that is having trouble.
 If multiple cartridges with high error rates were written to by the same
drive, the drive may be the source of the errors. Clean the drive or, if
necessary, replace it.
Notes:
 If the source of the high error rate is a drive, the media health icon for the
affected cartridges should return to either green or yellow after
approximately three load/read or write/unload cycles in a known good
drive.
 If your cartridge has a high error rate that cannot be attributed to a faulty
drive, environmental factors, or the end of the cartridge's normal working
life, contact Spectra Logic Technical Support for troubleshooting assistance
(see Contacting Spectra Logic on page 7
 Cleaning cartridge: The cleaning cartridge is expired. No more cleaning
cycles remain. Replace the cleaning cartridge.
The media health is Unknown. The status of the media cannot be determined.
one of the following methods to locate the cartridge.
Follow these steps...
Scroll through the list of cartridges on the Media Lifecycle Management Report
screen to locate the desired cartridge.
1. Enter the barcode label information for the cartridge you want to locate in the
Find by Barcode field.
2. Click Find. The list of cartridges refreshes to show the requested cartridge
highlighted at the top of the list.
Important: Only the slots below the top one displayed in the list are searched.
Scroll to the top of the source list before clicking Find. The search starts at the
second visible slot.
Using MLM Reporting
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