The software product ROBAR (ROBot ARchive) controls and automates the operation of MTC archive systems which are operated by robots.
ROBAR $(Version) controls the following MTC archive systems:
the virtual archive system Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS CS.
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 and is hosted on the SE Management Unit further on also referred as ROBAR server.
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 SE Management Unit) 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 the Management Unit (MU) of the SE servers. Support of ROBAR-SV on a separate server, is no longer supported.
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 dependencies including hardware and software are described in ROBAR Release Notice and in ETERNUS CS Release Notice, reference to BS2000 documentation https://bs2manuals.ts.fujitsu.com/index .