Media Manager status code 8 (Invalid Media ID)

Media Manager status code 8
Message: invalid media ID
Explanation: When a process performed a media-related operation, it encountered an empty or an incorrectly formatted media identifier. Or a media ID that was passed
to it cannot be operated on as requested.Media Manager status codes 463 Media Manager status codes


Recommended Action:
■ Examine command output, debug logs, and system logs for a more detailed
message on the error.
See "Setting Media Manager debug logging to a higher level" in the NetBackup
Logging Reference Guide.
■ Ensure that the media ID, where requested, is not blank.
■ Ensure that the specified media IDs contain valid characters only: alphanumeric
characters, the period (.), the plus sign (+), and the underscore (_). A hyphen
(-) is also a valid character when not the first character in the media ID.
■ If media are specified to be ejected from a library, ensure the following: they
exist in the EMM database and are associated with the correct robot number.
■ Ensure that the media ID is from 1 to 6 characters in length.
■ Ensure that a valid media and seed were specified.
■ If the operation is an inventory request for an ACS robot, use the robtest utility
to verify the following: the ACS interface returns cleaning media IDs both in the
query volume list and in the query cleaning volume list.
Media Manager status code 9
Message: invalid media type
Explanation: A process that performed a media-related operation encountered
an unknown, missing, or incompatible media type specifier.
Recommended Action:
■ If you run a robot inventory on a robot of type ACS, TLH, or TLM, ensure the
following: the installed version of NetBackup supports and recognizes the vendor
media type that the robot control software returns.
■ If using a command line interface directly, verify that a valid media type has
been passed, according to vmadd(1m) command-line documentation.
■ Ensure that an operation valid only for cleaning media has not been requested
on a media ID that does not correspond to cleaning tape.
■ Ensure that the media type in all barcode rules is a valid media type or the
ordinal zero (0), to represent the default media type.


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