Setting up cleaning jobs

You can submit once-only cleaning jobs, or set up scheduled cleaning jobs.

Before submitting a cleaning job, you must define a cleaning slot that contains the cleaning tape.

To define a cleaning slot

  1. On the navigation bar, click Devices.

  2. Click Robotic Libraries, and then click the drive or robotic library for which you are setting up the cleaning.

  3. Click Slots to display the library's slots in the results pane.

  4. Select the slot that contains the cleaning tape.

  5. Under General Tasks in the task bar, select Properties.

  6. Check Cleaning slot and click OK.

    Make sure that the cleaning tape is located in the slot that you defined as the cleaning slot. After defining the cleaning slot, you can set up a cleaning job for the robotic library drive.

To run a cleaning job

  1. On the navigation bar, click Devices.

  2. Click Robotic Libraries, and then click the drive or robotic library containing the drive, and then select the drive.

  3. Under Drive Tasks in the task pane, select Clean.

  4. Select the appropriate options as follows:

    Job name

    Type a name for the job or accept the default name.

    Job priority

    Select the priority for the job.

    Available options are as follows:

    • Lowest

    • Low

    • Medium

    • High

    • Highest

  5. If you want a person or group to be notified when the job completes, on the Properties pane, under Settings, click Notification and select the options you want.

    See Assigning notification recipients for completed jobs.

  6. If you want to run the job now, click Run Now. Otherwise, on the Properties pane, under Frequency, click Schedule to set the scheduling options you want to use.

    See Scheduling jobs.

    You can monitor the cleaning job through the Job Monitor. You can view cleaning statistics for the drive by right-clicking the drive and selecting Properties.

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