Enabling Tape Drives for Host Access

Enabling tape drives for host access is part of the Host Access feature. See About Host Access for details about this feature.

Tape drives must be enabled for host access before you can map hosts to them.

  1. Navigate to Setup > Host Access > Host Connections, or click the Access button from the Setup - Host Registration screen.

    The Setup - Host Connections screen displays, displaying a list of all tape drives that can be enabled for host access.
  2. Select the Access Control check box of all tape drives you want to enable for host access.
  3. Clear the Access Control check box of any tape drives you do not want to enable for host access.

    NOTE: If you disable a tape drive that was previously enabled and mapped to hosts, the tape drive can be accessed by all hosts. However, the library keeps track of the mapped connections, so that if you re-enable the tape drive later, the connections you had before are reinstated.

  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click Next to go to the next screen to map hosts to tape drives and partitions (see Mapping Hosts). If the Next button does not appear on the screen, it means no drives are enabled for host access.

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