RSM API
[Removable Storage Manager is no longer available as of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.]
The RSM API is the interface that applications use to access the services and media in an RSM system. It is a dynamic-link library (DLL) that contains a group of functions you can use to build your data management application. These functions perform the following operations:
- Mount and dismount media
- Clean drives
- Insert and eject media
- Inventory libraries
- Enable and disable libraries, drives, and media
- Access information in the RSM database
When you develop your media management application using the RSM API, you gain the following benefits:
- Multiple applications can share the same library, drive, and media resources
- Code written to the RSM API for a specific library can execute on a wide range of libraries, both those that exist now and those that are introduced in the future
- A single computer can track multiple types of media
- A single computer can track media that are inside or outside a media library unit
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