Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

The Devices pane provides the following information:

• Status of the operation.
• Name of the device.
• Name of the storage node that contains the device.
• For tape devices, the name of the library that contains the device.
• Name of the volume in the device.
• Name of the pool that is associated with the volume.
• Last message generated for the device.
• Whether the operation requires user input.

  For example, a labeling operation may want the user to acknowledge whether the system should overwrite the label on a tape.
  Entering user input provides instructions on how to deal with a user input notification.
  

If the current server configuration includes a shared device, a Shared Device Name column appears on the Devices pane. The name of the shared device appears in the Shared Device Name column. If other devices for that configuration are not shared devices, then the Shared Device Name column is blank for those devices. Only a single device per hardware ID can be active at any particular moment. The information for inactive shared devices is filtered out, and as a result, only one device per hardware ID is presented on the window at any time.

An icon represents the device status. The following table lists and describes each icon.

Table 1. Devices status icons This table describes device status icons.

Icon	Label	Description
	Library device active	The library device is active.
	Library device disabled	The library device is disabled.
	Library device idle	The library device is idle.
	Stand-alone device active	The stand-alone device is active.
	Stand-alone device disabled	The stand-alone device is disabled.
	Stand-alone device idle	The stand-alone device is idle.

When you sort items in the Devices pane by the Status column, NetWorker sorts the devices in alphabetical order based on the label name of the icon.