Enabling Mlm And Configuring Global Settings; Enable Mlm And Configure Settings - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management
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Overview This section describes enabling MLM on the library and
configuring the global MLM features. The global features are optional and
operate for every partition that is configured to use PreScan and PostScan
(see Enable and Configure MLM PreScan and PostScan on page 201).
Before disabling (or re-enabling) Media Lifecycle Management, make sure that
Important
none of the drives in the library contain a cartridge. Use your application software
to unload cartridges from the drives and return them to the slots in the library.
User Privilege Requirements Only a user with superuser or administrator
privileges can enable MLM and configure the global MLM features.

Enable MLM and Configure Settings

Use the following steps to enable MLM and Media Auto Discovery and
configure the global settings for MLM. These settings affect all partitions in
the library.
1. Log into the library as a user with superuser or administrator
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AND ONFIGURING
 MLM is enabled by default. If you do not want to use MLM,
Notes:
you must disable it.
 Disabling MLM also disables DLM.
Note: Enabling MLM automatically enables Drive Lifecycle
Management (DLM) as well. See Chapter 10 – Using Drive
Lifecycle Management, beginning on page 330 for information
about DLM.
privileges.
Enable MLM and Configure Settings
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