Moving Cartridges Within A Partition; Move Cartridges Using The Bluescale Inventory Screen - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 8 — Using the Cartridge Inventory
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Overview During normal operations, you typically use your storage
management software to move cartridges from one location to another
within the library. However, you may occasionally need to create and
process a move queue to direct the library to move cartridges manually.
This can be done using the library's BlueScale interface to locate and move
individual cartridges (for example, to move a cleaning cartridge stored in
the storage partition to a drive if you are not using the Auto Drive Clean
option) or by uploading a series of moves to a storage partition using a
specially formatted ASCII text file. Use the instructions in one of the
following sections to manually direct cartridge moves.
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User Privilege Requirements The user privilege requirements when
moving cartridges in a storage partition depend on how the library is being
accessed. See Specify the Partition Users on page 208 for information about
assigning users to a partition.
 Any user with operator privileges who is assigned to the partition and
 Only a user with superuser or administrator privileges can move
Usage Requirements Uploading a move queue file requires either a
remote connection to the library using the BlueScale web interface (RLC) or
a USB device connected to the LCM or operator panel.

Move Cartridges Using the BlueScale Inventory Screen

The library uses a move queue to direct tape cartridge moves. The move
queue lists one or more source/destination pairs, with each pair
representing a single move operation.
Manually Create the Move Queue Use the following steps to create the
move queue using the BlueScale Inventory screen.
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2. Display the cartridge inventory for the desired partition location (see
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all users with superuser or administrator privileges can move
cartridges within the partition using the BlueScale interface on the
operator panel.
cartridges within the partition using the BlueScale web interface (RLC)
or upload a move queue file.
Log into the library as a user with the required privileges (see User
Privilege Requirements above).
View the Cartridge Inventory for a Location on page 267 for more
details).
a. From the toolbar menu, select General > Inventory.
b. Select the partition for which you want to view the inventory from
the Partition drop‐down list, then click Go.
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