About This Guide

This guide documents how you administer the Tape Management Facility (TMF) running on the IRIX operating system. It introduces TMF, summarizes administration commands, covers configuration, documents administration information, and describes troubleshooting techniques.

1. Related Publications

This guide is one of a set of manuals that describes TMF. The following manuals are also in the set:

  • IRIX TMF Release and Installation Guide

  • IRIX TMF User's Guide

If you are using TMF with OpenVault, see the following manual for OpenVault operating and administration information:

  • OpenVault Operator's and Administrator's Guide

2. TMF Man Pages

In addition to printed and online prose documentation, several online man pages describe aspects of TMF. For a list of TMF man pages and usage information, see Appendix A, “Man Page List”.

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4. Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

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