Cleaning Bar Code (CLNxxx) Not Available, still cleaning media be used ?
Hello Folks,
Environment is as below:-
Master Server: NBU clutsered 7.6.0.1 (Windows 2008 R2 64-bit)
Media Servers (LDOMs) - Solaris 11
Tape Library :- Oracle Storage tek SL150 with 8 LTO-6 tape drives. SSO License.
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We have been using a standard barcode TNMxxxx for all our LTO-6 tapes in our environment. But the problem is that we have a cleaning media but we can't use it as we do not have a cleaning bar code of standard CLNxxx to attach on that cleaning media.
Is there a way that we can use existing standard TNMxxx barcode and use the cleaning media for cleaning tape drives ?
Or is there a way we can use cleaning media without barcode to clean the tape drives?
Please suggest all possible options.
Are you saying you don't have a physical barcode lable for your cleaning tape that starts with the letters "CLN"? If you are using barcodes, I believe all tapes need a barcode label; that's how the robot identifies the tapes as you put them in the Input/Output door and it reads them.
If you are sure that it is a cleaning tape, and that it still has available cleans left to be used, you *can* use a TNMxxxxx label, I think. You will need to set up a new barcode rule that will look at that ONE full barcode and define it as HCLN type. I think this will work. Once the tape has been accepted by the robot and you are able to clean the drives, you can delete that barcode rule, as you should never have another tape using that barcode ever again.