Automate Media Validation Using Policies
Media validation policies automate validation by defining how STA selects the media to test.
Based on the user-defined criteria for the policy, STA identifies media within the tape library system that should be validated. For each media selected, STA generates a validation request, which is submitted to the validation queue. As soon as a compatible drive becomes available, the validation starts. STA manages this activity automatically.
Depending on the number of media validation policies and how they are defined, validation could occur several times a day on a single piece of media. To prevent this, STA limits automated validations to one per day for each media. Once a validation request has been generated for a piece of media, STA will not generate any additional validation requests for it that day.