george@YorkU.CA (George Kahler) writes:

My NetBackup sysadmin is asking me if there is a way to rename the tape alias.

enterprise> storage show tape Tape Drive: 1a.0 Description: IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 Serial Number: F0016E7043 World Wide Name: WWN[5:003:08c001:ff7043] Alias Name(s): st4 Device State: available

enterprise> mt -f nrst4m status Tape drive: IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 Status: offline Format: LTO rd only 200GB cmp fileno = -1 blockno = -1 resid = 0

There was a maintenance done on our tape library where the SE powered it off and after powering it back on the tape alias on the filer has changed from '3' to '4'. This is a direct attached fiber LTO3 tape drive.

Use

storage alias - to see what aliases exist storage unalias st4 - to remove an alias storage alias st3 1a.0 - to add an alias

That's been available since about ONTAP 6.1, I think.