Assign tape aliases
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For easy device identification, you can assign tape aliases to a tape drive or medium changer. Aliases provide a correspondence between the logical names of backup devices and a name permanently assigned to the tape drive or medium changer.
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Assign an alias to a tape drive or medium changer by using the
storage tape alias set
command.For more information about this command, see the man pages.
You can view the serial number (SN) information about the tape drives by using the
system node hardware tape drive show
command and about tape libraries by using thesystem node hardware tape library show
commands.The following command sets an alias name to a tape drive with serial number SN[123456]L4 attached to the node, cluster1-01:
cluster-01::> storage tape alias set -node cluster-01 -name st3 -mapping SN[123456]L4
The following command sets an alias name to a media changer with serial number SN[65432] attached to the node, cluster1-01:
cluster-01::> storage tape alias set -node cluster-01 -name mc1 -mapping SN[65432]