About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration

Compare contents with volume configuration compares the contents of a robotic library with the contents of the EMM database. Regardless of the result, the database is not changed.

Table: Compare contents description

Robot and media

Report contents

The robot can read bar codes

The report shows the differences between the robot and the EMM database

The robot cannot read bar codes

The report shows only whether a slot contains a volume

If the media cave bar codes, this operation is useful for determining if volumes have been physically moved within a robot.

For API robots

The media ID and media type in the EMM database are compared to the information that is received from the vendor's robotic library software.

If the results show that the EMM database does not match the contents of the robotic library, perform the following actions:

See About updating the volume configuration.

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Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration