Clean drive

Edit online

Requests a manual cleaning of the tape drive. Typically, cleaning of a tape drive is done automatically by the library. This should be used only for diagnostic purpose.

Request syntax

POST /v1/drives/<location>/clean
Initiates a cleaning operation for the drive in the specified location.

POST /v1/drives/<sn>/clean
Initiates a cleaning operation for the drive with the specified serial number.

Path parameters

location (string): The unique location of the drive.

sn (string): The globally unique serial number of the drive.

Example

> POST /v1/drives/drive_F3C2R1/clean
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

Error handling

Returns 422 Unprocessable Entry if drive is not online.