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Using the Resource Manager

As mentioned in the introduction, you need a browser to interact with the Resource Manager. Enter the URL (web-address) of the Resource Manager service into your browser. If you don’t know the URL, ask your system administrator in charge of the Resource Manager service. After entering the URL, the Resource Manager shows you the jukebox page, an overview of the jukebox network. The hierarchy of containment is reflected as a tree in the left pane — the top node represents the entire network, branching into the jukeboxes and the jukeboxes into magazines and drives. What’s also shown are the so-called interfaces. This is an advanced concept beyond the scope of this document because it involves mainly the peculiarities of particular jukeboxes. It is of interest to the administrator of the jukebox-network and support staff from the jukebox vendor.
You can think of an interface as the wire connecting one or several jukeboxes with the Resource Manager server. You can safely ignore the interfaces for the time being. Figure 7 names the elements of the jukebox page.

Figure 7: Important user elements on the Jukebox page
Figure 7: Important user elements on the Jukebox page
The four buttons on top of the page enable you to switch between pages. For now we will concentrate on the jukebox page, but here is a brief description of the purpose each page serves. Each page has its own section in this manual.

  1. Jukebox page — managing magazines and jukeboxes. It is also used for administrative and maintenance tasks.
  2. Volumes page — managing disks and ISO images; copying disks to virtual magazines.
  3. Jobs page — monitoring, or stopping tasks in progress, like copying or cataloguing disks.
  4. Admin — administrative tasks, i.e. software update.
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