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ca_mmo - Options

The ca_mmo command provides options to establish vaulting policy and manage your media resources. Using the Media Management Administrator (MM Admin), you can organize tape movement to off-site storage locations, define retention policies to ensure that your tapes are protected from being prematurely overwritten, secure access to tape-resident files, and maintain a comprehensive inventory of tape library resources.

The ca_mmo command includes the following options:

• -start [-alert] [-export]

  Starts a vault cycle on a member server or a primary server.

  If you use only the -start command and the output has vaulted tapes that need to be sent to an offsite vault, you must export these tapes out of the changer manually. If you do not want to export tapes manually, use the ‑export command.

  When you use the -export command, MM Admin automatically exports all of the local vaulted tapes to the mailslots of the changer so that you do not have to export them manually. If there are more vaulted tapes to export than mailslots, MM Admin waits for the Administrator to empty the mailslots so it can continue exporting the remaining tapes.

  If you want to receive a notification when mailslots need to be emptied, use the -alert option. After the notification occurs, MM Admin waits a maximum of 24 hours for the mailslots to be emptied.

• -startAll [-alert] [-exportAll]

  Starts a vault cycle in a SAN or on the primary or member servers.

  Use the -exportAll switch with -startAll if you want to start a vault cycle in a SAN and export all of the local tapes and tapes in the SAN.

• -export

  Exports all tapes locally.

  This option is usually used independently if it is not used with the -start or -startAll options. This is useful if you do not want to export every time you run a vault cycle.

• -exportAll

  Exports all of the local tapes and all of the tapes in the SAN or on the primary or member servers.

  This option is usually used independently if it is not used with the -start or -startAll options. This is useful if you do not want to export every time you run a vault cycle.

• -jid

  Specifies the Job ID.

• -reset

  Resets the vault status.

• -init

  Initializes the MM Admin database.

• -checkin -tapename <Tape name> -tapeid <Tape id #> -seqnum <Tape seq #> -type <Check in type>

  Checks media back into Tape Service using the tape name, ID, and sequence number.

  Check in type can be temporary <temp>, manually <manual>, or permanently (manual and retire) <manualretire>.

• -checkin -serialnum <Tape serial #> -type <Check in type>

  Checks media back into Tape Service using its serial number.

  Check in type can be temporary <temp>, manually <manual>, or permanently (manual and retire) <manualretire>.

• -assign -tapename <Tape name> -tapeid <Tape id #> -seqnum <Tape seq #> - vaultname <Vault Name>

  Assigns media into a vault using the tape name, ID, and sequence number.

  When selecting a Vault Criteria Descriptor (VCD), if you selected the Assign by User option as the controlling data set, you must use either this command or the - assign -serialnum command to assign a specific tape.

• -assign -serialnum <Tape serial #> - vaultname <Vault Name>

  Assigns media into a vault using its serial number.

  When selecting a Vault Criteria Descriptor (VCD), if you selected the Assign by User option as the controlling data set, you must use either this command or the -assign -tapename command to assign a specific tape.

• -printreport <Print type>

  Prints a report.

  Depending on which type of report you want to print, enter VaultSelection, Shipping, ShippingContent, Receiving, ReceivingContent, InventoryByMedia, InventoryByVault for <Print type>.

• -usage

  Displays a list of basic ca_mmo commands.