The problem here is that your cleaning cartridge really has expired -
the drive can tell this by querying a RFID chip in the tape cartridge
and is reporting this back to legato via the scsi CDI mechanism and also
your library is being told (the RAS ticket).

You need to put in a new tape first of all.

Secondly - if you use partitioning on the library then networker is only
going to see those partitions it is configured to see and on a library
like yours you can set up autocleaning in the library and have the
cleaning tape owned by SYSTEM instead of any one partition.

If this is the case then I would suggest turning off networker
autocleaning and allowing the tape library to manage cleaning alone. 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of psoni
Sent: Saturday, 8 November 2008 4:06 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Cleaning media expired : Dell ML6000

Hi,

I am using Networker 7.3.3 with Dell ML6000 tape library with 4 IBM
LTO-3 drives.

Slot # 122 has been configured as cleaning slot and auto cleaning is
enabled in the networker. 

Networker management Console (NMC) shows that 18 uses are still left
with the cleanig tape but properties of tape drives have " expired
cleaning media " as tape critical meassage under " volume " tab.

On ML6000 web client , i found the follwing 

[1]RAS ticket : Cleaning media has expired

[2] "Setup > Cleaning slots" have # for cleaning  slots : none  and
     auto cleaning : disabled 

I know that cleaning feature can be managed by either web client or the
backup application ( networker in this case)


Questions: 

[1] How to see partition info in the networker ?

[2] Will the same cleaning tape be share among all the partitions?

[3] What is the procedure to replace cleaning media in the networker ?

Thanks 
-Parth

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