Tools > Storage Manager Overview
The Tools > Storage Manager menu contains options that enable you to perform the following Storage Manager-related tasks:
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View your system's libraries, storage disks, and tape drives, and place those devices online or offline. |
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View, add, edit, or delete drive pools (groups of tape drives allocated for various administrator-defined storage tasks). |
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Perform various actions on the storage media in your library. |
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Specify file names to exclude from StorNext Storage Manager. |
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Specify file paths to exclude from the truncation process. |
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Enter parameters for automatically consolidating space on tape media. |
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The StorNext Library Operator Interface allows you to perform media-related actions remotely from the library. |
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View current software requests in progress or cancel a request. |
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Schedule tasks to run automatically based on a specified schedule. |
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Tools > Storage Manager > Alternate Store and Retrieval Location |
Alternate Retrieval Location allows you to specify a remote retrieval location to use in situations where files stored on tape or a storage disk cannot be accessed. Alternate Store Location provides an automatic system for copying files from a main instance of StorNext to a remote instance of StorNext at the same time as copies are made to tertiary storage at the main site. |
Allows you to update the drive serial number mappings. |
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Reports and manages the master keys used for client side encryption. |
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Allows you to set and modify StorNext system parameters. |