You can perform the following operator tasks:
- Start OAM
- Restart OAM
- Vary:
- Tape library online and offline
- Tape drive online and offline
- Eject a specific tape volume
- Audit a tape volume
- Enter a volume into a manual tape library
- Import volumes into a virtual tape server library
- Export volumes from a virtual tape server library
- Request Information from the TS7700 Virtualization
Engine
- Disable Cartridge Entry Installation Exit processing
- Disable Volume Not in Library Installation Exit processing
- Re-enable installation exit processing
- Display the cartridge loader scratch media type for a tape drive
- Set the cartridge loader scratch media type for a tape drive or
a range of tape drives
- Assign library manager policy names outboard (for libraries that
support outboard policy management)
- Display the status of:
- OAM
- Tape library
- Tape drive
- Tape storage group
- Tape volume
- SETTLIB parameters
- Outstanding OAM messages
- Stop OAM
- Capture Data for Diagnostic Purposes (OAM DUMP)
- Query OAM active and pending tape library requests (OAM QUERY)
- Query device services library information (DEVSERV QLIB)
Note: You may have an environment with multiple systems at different
levels sharing a common TCDB. In this event, if a system attempts
to perform an operator command against a volume that has a media type
or recording technology that is not recognized, the request fails.