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Providing Automatic Magnetic Tape Management

If the use of magnetic tape volumes is desired for SMF history files, CA SMF Director automatically determines which tape is eligible for use by the dump/unload process. This product can be customized to request non-specific tape volumes (scratch tapes) or specific tape volumes. A specific "pool" of volume serials can be defined to CA SMF Director from which it chooses a tape volume for the mount request. After one of these volumes expires (if allowed), it is set to be reused.

Note: A specific pool of tapes is not allowed for substream or logstream archival.

Regardless of whether CA SMF Director requests specific or non-specific tape volumes, this product fills up the tape volume as much as possible with multiple files, ensuring full use of a tape volume.

CA SMF Director can be easily integrated to be used with CA 1, CA TLMS, CA Vtape Virtual Tape System, or any other tape management facility.