Viewing drive health and life, Write health tab – HP Command View for Tape Libraries Software User Manual
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Load/Unload Life—The percentage of remaining drive load/unload life based on the number
of load/unload cycles over the life of the drive compared with worst case life expectancy
testing in a clean environment.
If a life warning is shown, the drive should be replaced at the next maintenance period.
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Service Action—A recommendation for service based on the health criteria. More than one
service action may apply; hover over the entry with the mouse to see a tool tip containing all
recommended service actions for the drive.
Viewing Drive Health and Life
The Drive Health and Life shows the recent health history of a particular drive. Library administrator
can view health related information including a graph showing what the drive health has been
across the last several backups. In addition, you can drill down into the recent health history of
any tapes used by that drive. This helps determine if there is a problem with the drive or with a
particular tape being used by that drive.
To view the Drive Health and Life:
1.
In the Launcher window, click the TapeAssure tab.
2.
In the Navigation panel under Drives, select Health. A list of all of the drives appears.
Alternatively, in the Navigation panel under Dashboard, select Drives and Tapes Needing
Attention. A list of all drives that need attention (in a critical or warning state) appears.
3.
Click on the drive, then select Actions
→Properties, or double click the row, to launch the drive
properties.
NOTE:
Details links are only enabled for drives that belong to licensed libraries.
4.
Click the Overall Health link to open the drive health graphs.
The Drive Health/Life window displays the following:
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Drive Serial Number
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Library Serial Number
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Overall Health – calculated based on the recent worst status of the drive health parameters
HeadLifeQual, LoadLifeQual, RepoLifeQual and WriteHealth
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Write Health/Read Health – based on the latest support ticket
Write Health tab
The Write Health tab shows the write health history of the drives for different tapes as both a graph
and a table.
Using TapeAssure
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