There are commands for viewing information about tape drives and media changers in a cluster, bringing a tape drive online and taking it offline, modifying the tape drive cartridge position, setting and clearing tape drive alias name, and resetting a tape drive. You can also view and reset tape drive statistics.
| If you want to... | Use this command... |
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| Bring a tape drive online | storage tape online |
| Clear an alias name for tape drive or media changer | storage tape alias clear |
| Enable or disable a tape trace operation for a tape drive | storage tape trace |
| Modify the tape drive cartridge position | storage tape position |
| Reset a tape drive | storage tape reset Note: This command is available only at the advanced privilege level.
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| Set an alias name for tape drive or media changer | storage tape alias set |
| Take a tape drive offline | storage tape offline |
| View information about all tape drives and media changers | storage tape show |
| View information about tape drives attached to the cluster |
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| View information about media changers attached to the cluster | storage tape show-media-changer |
| View error information about tape drives attached to the cluster | storage tape show-errors |
| View all Data ONTAP qualified and supported tape drives attached to each node in the cluster | storage tape show-supported-status |
| View aliases of all tape drives and media changers attached to each node in the cluster | storage tape alias show |
| Reset the statistics reading of a tape drive to zero | storage stats tape zero tape_name You must use this command at the nodeshell. |
| View tape drives supported by Data ONTAP | storage show tape supported [-v] You must use this command at the nodeshell. You can use the -v option to view more details about each tape drive. |
| View tape device statistics to understand tape performance and check usage pattern | storage stats tape tape_name You must use this command at the nodeshell. |
For more information about these commands, see the man pages.
