Chapter 5: Advanced Reporting
Working with Control Path Failover (CPF)
116 Quantum Scalar i40 and Scalar i80 User’s Guide
Forcing CPF Web Client
You can manually force a control path failover. You might want to force
a failover to check that the control path on the non-active tape drive is
operational, or to switch back to the original control path tape drive
once the issue that originally caused the failover has been fixed.
1 Click T
ools > Drive Operations.
The T
ools - Drive Operations screen displays.
Figure 17 Tools - Drive
Operations Screen for CPF
2 Select Force Control Path Failover and click Next.
The Force Control Path Failover screen displays (see Figure
18
below). All of the partitions that have control path failover enabled
are
listed. The location and status of the tape drive that is currently
serving as the control path are listed in the Active columns. The
location and status of the tape drive that is currently serving as the
standby control path are listed in the Standby columns. For each
partition, the following information is listed:
Column Indicates
Active Drive Location of the current control path tape
drive.
Active Status Ready status of the current control path
tape drive.