The software product ROBAR (ROBot ARchive) controls and automates the operation of MTC archive systems which are operated by robots.
ROBAR V7.6 controls the following MTC archive systems:
the virtual archive system FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS CS.
the real archive systems Scalar from QUANTUM Corp.
The term archive system is used for all MTC archive systems run with ROBAR, if no further distinction of the archive systems is required.
The archive systems are controlled and automated by linking the BS2000 system, the ROBAR server and the archive system.
ROBAR-SV manages communication and coordination between the BS2000 systems and the archive system on the ROBAR server.
ROBAR acts as the job submitter for the archive system.
As many as 110 BS2000 systems (including guest systems under VM2000) and as many as 1024 MTC devices for an archive system can be controlled with ROBAR.
ROBAR consists of the ROBAR-CL and ROBAR-SV software components which must both be run together:
ROBAR-CL (decentralized ROBAR part on the BS2000 system) is the local BS2000 connection component between BS2000 and ROBAR-SV on the ROBAR server. This is where messages concerning the MTCs are filtered from the UCON console message stream and passed on to ROBAR-SV. For ROBAR-SV, these messages are the basis on which the archive system is controlled.
ROBAR-SV (central ROBAR part on the ROBAR server) connects ROBAR-CL and the archive system. ROBAR-SV receives the requests issued by ROBAR-CL (in the form of messages), evaluates them and passes them on to the archive system. ROBAR-SV runs on a separate server which is called the ROBAR server. Other software products which are independent of ROBAR can also run on the ROBAR server.
In the sense of a client/server architecture ROBAR-CL is the client part and ROBAR-SV the server part of ROBAR.
Since it is closely linked with other BS2000 software products (such as MAREN, HSMS/ARCHIVE), tape processing can be optimally organized with ROBAR.
All version dependencies are described in the ROBAR Release Notice.
The hardware and software dependencies of ROBAR are also described there.