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    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Introduction ....................................... 1 Notational Conventions ................. 1 Creating a Secure User ...................... 1 Creating a Secure Key ....... ................. 2 Protection Mode for Cartridges ..... 3 Enable/Disable Se cure Key f[...]

  • Page 2

    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide 2 disable Secur e Capable Drives for reading and writing data to and from tapes using the Secure Key . When a user is created with ad ministrator privileges (other than the default admin user), the Create Secure User section appears at the bottom of the Users page (see figure 1 ). Figure 1 C[...]

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    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide 3 Figure 3 Secure Key P age The Secure Key page is divided into the following sections: • Protection Mode for Cartridges • Enable/Disable Secure Key for Drives • Modify Secure Ke y for Library • Assign Secure K ey to Cartridge • Create Secure Key Name/Secure K ey Pair • Delete Se[...]

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    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide 4 Enable/Disab le Secure Key for Drives 0 Refer to figure 5 for information o n Enable/Disable Secure Key for Drives . Figure 5 Enable/Disable Secure Key for D rives The Secure Key can only be used with tape drives that are Secure Key capable. This section lists the tape drives in the librar[...]

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    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide 5 Figure 8 Create Secure Key Name/Secure Key P air T o create a secure key name/secure key pair: 1 Enter the Secure Key Name . 2 Enter a securekey in the protected Secure Key field. 3 Enter the same Secure Key in the V erify Secure Key field. 4 Click New to create the Secure Key name/key pai[...]

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    PX500 Series DL TSage™ T ape Security Quick Start Guide United States of America Quantum Corpora tion 141 Innovation Drive Irvine, CA 92612 U.S.A. phone 949.856.7800 fax 949.856.77 99 European Headquarter s Quantum Corporaton 3 Bracknell Beeches Old Bracknell Lane West Bracknell Berkshire RG12 7BW United Kingdom phone +44 1344 353500 fax +44 1344[...]