Adding The Data Protector Express Drive Expansion License; How Does Data Protector Express Allocate Licenses; Viewing A Tape Library; Devices - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

If Data Protector Express is installed in evaluation mode, you will be able to use all drives in the tape
library for the 60 day length of the evaluation license. At the end of the 60 day evaluation period only the
first drive in each tape library will remain usable. All additional drives are marked as offline and cannot
be used until a Data Protector Express Drive Expansion license is added.
This is the same process as for all Data Protector Express option licenses. When you purchase options,
they are enabled by entering an additional license key, which is added to the existing base license key.
1. Run Data Protector Express and select Licenses from the Help drop-down menu.
3. In the information window, right-click to open a context menu and select the New command. A New
Object window is opened.
4. Enter the license key as the new object and click OK.
5. The new option license key will be added to the list of licenses and the functionality enabled.
Any licenses in Data Protector Express are assigned on a 'first come, first served' basis; whichever library
drives are registered first in the catalog will receive a license (reducing the license count by one) to the
maximum allowable in the base license definition. If there are more drives than licenses, unlicensed
drives are marked off-line (and are unusable).
To avoid this automatic assignment, it would be necessary to mark a drive as offline after it has been
registered. This should return its license to the license 'pool', allowing another online drive to take that
license.

Viewing a Tape Library

Once you have installed Data Protector Express, expand the Devices view to locate the tape library. Note
how the components of the tape library are displayed so that you can see how many Devices (tape drives),
Import-Export Slots (mail slots) and Storage Slots are associated with the library.
Click on Devices in the Favorites desk bar and navigate down from the Network folder to locate
Devices. For a hierarchical view, open Folders in the Detail Area (by clicking on the Folders icon in the
Toolbar).