Restricted transport storage cartridges
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsChristopher Anthony Grant Hillier, Curtis C. Ballard
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Abstract
In some examples, a computer receives a command to transport a storage cartridge in a storage system from a physical storage slot to a storage drive, and determines whether the storage cartridge is associated with a restricted transport indication set by a configuration operation in the storage system. In response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, the computer checks for an indication of receipt of an access secret information, and denies processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge if the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a computer to:
- receive a command to transport a storage cartridge in a storage system from a physical storage slot to a storage drive;
- determine whether the storage cartridge is associated with a restricted transport indication set by a configuration operation in the storage system;
- and
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, check for an indication of receipt of an access secret information and deny processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge if the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
A storage library comprising:
- a physical storage slot;
- a storage drive;
- a transport device to transport storage cartridges between different locations in the storage library;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
- configure, in a configuration operation, a restricted transport indication with a storage cartridge in the storage library;
- receive a command to transport the storage cartridge from the physical storage slot to the storage drive;
- determine whether the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication set by the configuration operation;
- and
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, check for an indication of receipt of an access secret information and deny processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge if the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
A method of a storage system comprising a storage drive, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a requester, a command to transport a storage cartridge in the storage system from a physical storage slot to the storage drive;
- determining whether the storage cartridge is associated with a restricted transport indication set by a configuration operation in the storage system;
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, checking for an indication of receipt of an access secret information from the requester and denying processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge if the indication of receipt of the access secret information from the requester is not present;
- and
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is not associated with the restricted transport indication, allowing processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.