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If any button shows a degraded or failed state, all information reported is for the physical library only. Select the button to

view additional details. For more information on the status buttons, refer to the

description that follows.

System Status at a Glance

There are three ways to obtain information about the system subcomponents:

Interpreting the System Status Buttons

The overall system status panel is located below the library information panel. Each button represents one of the major

subsystems of the physical library. Subsystem status is reported on the face of the button as Good, Degraded, or Failed.

Figure 12. Reported Statuses

To get more information about a reported status, select the appropriate button for a specific subsystem.

If the state is Good, select the button to view a full status report for all relevant subcomponents.

If the state is Degraded or Failed, select the button to view a Current Problems dialog box that lists components of

the subsystem that are currently in a degraded or failed state. Follow the discussion in

shows the information available for each subsystem of a physical library reporting a state of Good. The System,

Control, Cooling, and Robotics subsystems all return the System Status dialog box, which contains information about

them. The Drives and Connectivity subsystems return dialog boxes specific to those subsystems. Partitions return only a

subset of this information.

Table 7. Information About the Physical Library Obtained From the Status Buttons

Subsystem

General Component

Information

Detailed Information

System Control Cooling

Power

System Name

[System ID]

[System Status]

Media Moves

[Robot number]

[Number of media moves within the history of the

library]

Recovered Gets

[Robot number]

[Number of recovered gets within the history of the

library]

Recovered Puts

[Robot number]

[Number of recovered puts within the history of the

library]