The Operation Panel on the library directly is an option you need to purchase. 
However, the remote console (Streamline Console) comes with the library for 
free and allows you to monitor/configure the library from a remote server and 
basically do what you have required.
regards  -attila

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George Sinclair wrote:

Does anyone know if the Storagetek SL500 tape library allows you to be able to move tapes around directly from the GUI panel on the library? Also, does it allow you to be able to see an inventory of the tapes, and/or their associated bar codes?

The reason I ask is because we have an older L80, and it offers no such ability. The panel does allow some configuration, but no manipulation of the media, and you can't see what the library thinks it has or the bar codes is has saved in its little brain. They do sell an ancillary software package that does allow you to see this information and move tapes around, but you would do this remotely. And, of course, we can use the NetWorker software, but I like being able to have this control when I'm right there at the library; it's a nice feature for the operator(s). Our Quantum libraries have always had these features. I would think the SL500 would offer more advanced features over the L series, but I could not find any specific information

about this.

George

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