# Monitoring tape groups

This topic describes the workspaces that monitor the status of tape groups. You access these workspaces through the Tape Group node in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal.

See Workspaces for general information on predefined workspaces and a list of all nodes that are included in the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS product. Each node corresponds to a specific area of storage resource monitoring. And each node includes links to a unique set of storage resource workspaces. See Accessing workspaces to learn about navigating among workspaces. And see Integration with other products to learn about linking to the workspaces of other IBM Tivoli Monitoring products.

## Navigating the workspaces of the Tape Group node

This section summarizes the workspace links that are available through the Navigator node. Depending on your monitoring goal, you follow a specific series of links to get detailed information about storage resources.

You start in the Tape Group node to navigate to the workspaces that you see in Table 1. You can access the workspaces in this table using the standard path and method for navigating workspaces.

Table 1. Tape Group node: bulleted list showing the hierarchy of linked workspaces
Tape Group Tape Devices

## Tape Group workspace

This topic describes the main components of the principal workspace for this node.

The following sections describe various components of this workspace.

Views
  This workspace provides the following views. For a description of the attributes used as column headings in the workspace table view, review the attribute group definitions for this workspace in the online help. The help resource includes attribute descriptions that are displayed when you hover with the mouse pointer over a column heading.
  Tape group table view
    The table view displays one row of data for each tape group (device or tape library) configured in the reporting LPAR. The view contains the following information:
    - The library name or device type
    - The library ID number
    - The library type (or Non_Library for non-library devices)
    - The library device type
    - The console name
    - The library description
    - The number of configured drives, online drives and available drives
    - The number of pending mounts and the length of time the current mount has been pending
    - The total number of slots in the device and the number currently available
    - The number of scratch volumes for 3480 type magnetic tape cartridges (Media1), for 3490E type enhanced capacity magnetic tape cartridges (Media2), for 3590 type enhanced capacity magnetic tape cartridges (Media3), and for 3590 type extended tape cartridges (Media 4)
    - The I/O rate
    - The number temporary and permanent errors encountered on the device
  Mount pend time > 5 minutes bar graph
    This graph contains one bar for each tape group which has been waiting more than 5 minutes for a tape mount. The bar height indicates how long the mount has been pending.
Workspaces that are linked to this workspace
  See Navigating the workspaces of the Tape Group node.

  Learn how to navigate to workspaces here: Accessing workspaces. Also see Integration with other products.

  See Workspaces for a list of all nodes provided in Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS.

## Summary information for the workspaces in this node

This section lists the views and related attribute groups for the workspaces of the Tape Group node.

See Workspaces for general information on predefined workspaces and a list of all nodes that are included in the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS product. Each node corresponds to a specific area of storage resource monitoring. And each node includes links to a unique set of storage resource workspaces. See Accessing workspaces to learn about navigating among workspaces. And see Integration with other products to learn about linking to the workspaces of other IBM Tivoli Monitoring products.

See Tape Group workspace for more information on the primary workspace for this node.

Tape Group workspace
View | View type | Attribute group
Tape Group Report | TABLE | Tape Group
Mount Pend Time > 5 Minutes | BAR | Tape Group

Tape Devices workspace
View | View type | Attribute group
Tape Device Report | TABLE | Tape Device
Mount Pend Time > 5 Minutes | BAR | Tape Device