SL500 - How To Prevent Automatic Tape Cleaning From Getting Automatically Enabled

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Update Date:	2017-05-19
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Solution 1959982.1 : SL500 - How To Prevent Automatic Tape Cleaning From Getting Automatically Enabled

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
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Goal

Customer would like to disable automatic tape cleaning, as the backup software does not support this option. Disabled the option on the Configure tab of Auto Clean, but for some reason or other, this option is automatically switched to Enabled from time to time. This causes the backups to fail. What is the reason this setting switches automatically and how can it be prevented from happening?

Solution

Check if there is a cleaning cartridge in a reserved slot when the library is powered on. If it is, remove it from that slot.

Auto Clean defaults to 'off', unless a cleaning cartridge is in a reserved slot when the library is powered-on, in which case Auto Clean is set to on. The Auto Clean option cannot be turned 'on', if no cleaning cartridges are in the library. Once the Auto Clean option is set to 'on', it will remain on unless it is disabled by the CLI command.

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