Dedicate Tape Drives to Storage Agents only - Possible?

[spiffy]

Just wondering if i am able to dedicate specific tape drives to specific storage agents so that only the storage agent will use the tape drive.

I do not want any other TSM processes using the same tape drives that i have my storage agents pointing to.

thanks

[moon-buddy]

One technique that I know of is to create unique DEVCLASS and Library (logical) names for each instance.

[smajl]

don't define / delete paths from TSM server to drives, leave only paths from storage agent to drives.

[Jeroen]

I doubt that last option is possible.
How would the TSM server be able to mount a tape in a drive if it does not have a path to the drive?

I think the TSM server will always be able to use the same drives as the storage agent. Which makes sense for things like space reclamation

[GregE]

Keep the TSM server path to drives defined, but set online=NO.