Sun Microsystems SL500 User Manual

SL Console Screen Display

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Chapter 2 StorageTek Library Console 31

Synchronizing the Display With the Controller 

Database

When you first bring up an SL Console screen, the display reflects the most recently 

saved data from the library controller database. If you use the screen to modify the 

library contents or configuration, your changes do not update the controller database 

until you commit your changes by clicking the Apply button. Multiple users can access 

the library at the same time, using the SL Console, command line interface, and various 

host applications to make their own changes to the library contents and configuration. 

If other users make changes and apply them to the controller database, you will not see 

these changes until you click Apply or Refresh on your screen. Therefore, the display 

you see on the SL Console may not reflect the actual saved library configuration at a 

given point in time.

For these reasons, if you are making major modifications to the library 

configuration—adding modules, defining partitions, etc.—it is important that you 

coordinate these changes with other library users. Failure to do so could result in 

conflicts within the controller database. 

5

Work area

Location of the screen data. 

6

Library health indicator

Identifies the library to which the SL Console is connected, 

and displays a graphical representation of the library health. 

7

UserID indicator

Displays the user ID currently logged in to the SL Console.

8

Server  communication 

health indicator

Displays a graphical heartbeat monitor indicating the state of 

server communication health.

9

Device tree

Lists the devices included in the library.