Spectra Logic T-Series Spectra T50e User Manual page 22

Chapter 1 — Library Overview
Observatory
The Observatory option provides remote monitoring and management
functions for the library.
Partitioning with Shared Library Services
The T50e offers partitioning with SLS.
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Centralized Remote Management—Observatory, which uses EXtensible
Markup Language (XML), allows users to see information remotely
that is normally only available on the library's General Status and
System Messages screens. However, this is a step above the RLC feature
that is included with the library, because users can view the Spectra
T50e library's functions in combination with those of multiple other
Spectra Logic libraries.
You can run no more than two simultaneous Observatory sessions.
Automatic E-mail Alerts—Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
allows users to receive library status information via e-mail. When
library messages are generated through the LC, the library
automatically sends e-mail notifications to selected users. Information
included in the notification consists of the number of the message, its
severity, its details, its remedy, and the time it was generated. Message
types include Informational, Error, Warning, and Fatal; users can
configure the library to select which types of messages are sent.
One Partition Required—The Spectra T50e library requires the
configuration of one partition. It creates one by default when you install
and configure the library, if you accept the default when prompted.
Each partition contains all necessary elements for a robotic tape library:
media slots, tape drives, and a robot.
An advantage of running the library as a single partition is drive
availability; all tape drives are available to all backup processes.
Multiple Partitions are Optional—To partition the library into two
partitions, you must purchase an option key for the additional partition
that you would like to configure.
Partitions divide the library logically, so that the partitioned Spectra
T50e library looks to the rest of the backup environment like separate
physical libraries—one library per configured partition. Shared Library
Services (SLS) technology simplifies storage consolidation with no
external software or hardware.
Each partition allows access to the tape drives and slots assigned to it.
In some environments, partitioning is crucial to efficiency and growth.
For example, multiple partitions are useful if the environment uses
multiple backup software packages and each software package requires
its own dedicated library. See Partition Management on page 119.
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