Spectra TFinity User Manual page 298

Chapter 9 — Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management
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Enable Media Auto
Discovery
Minimum Idle
Minutes Before
Auto Discovery
Convert to
Broadcast Hours
PostScan Blackout
Periods
4. Click Save to enable the selected MLM features.
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Enable the Media Auto Discovery feature.
Media Auto Discovery must be enabled before the library
proactively discovers newly imported cartridges and adds
them to the MLM database.
If you enable PreScan for the partition, the Media Auto
Discovery process is replaced by the more in depth PreScan
process for that partition (see Enable and Configure MLM
PreScan and PostScan on page 201).
Requirements
 Media Lifecycle Management must be enabled.
 All cartridges must have barcode labels.
Notes:
 The Media Auto Discovery process identifies MLM‐enabled
cartridges as well as those that are not MLM‐enabled.
 The Media Auto Discovery process may be affected by your
storage management software. In addition, software that
polls the drives on a regular basis is affected by the
discovery process. If you encounter interactions with your
storage management software, you can choose to either stop
the storage management software from accessing the
library before starting the discovery process or you can
choose not to use Media Auto Discovery.
 If you do not enable Media Auto Discovery, you can start
the discovery process for a specific partition manually. See
Discover Cartridges Manually on page 304 for instructions.
—OR—
You can let the library discover cartridges and add them to
the MLM database the first time they are loaded and
unloaded from an MLM‐enabled drive during normal
operations.
Set the number of minutes that the library needs to be idle
before the Media Auto Discovery process begins.
Display the MLM capacity using a broadcast‐centric method
based on hours of content used and total hours of content
available instead of raw capacity for all MLM‐enabled
cartridges. See Configure How Storage Capacity Displays on
page 299 for detailed information.
Configure time periods during which the automatic PostScan
process does not operate. See Configure PostScan Blackout
Periods on page 300 for detailed information.
Enable MLM and Configure Settings
User Guide—Spectra TFinity Library
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Setting
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5 minutes
None
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Zero (0)
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