Bill,

Thanks for the reference to AutoVault.  I checked with them and they do
not do slot management at this time.

Is anyone doing vault **slot** management on Aix?

David

>>> bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET 03/20/02 10:37AM >>>
David,
        As for the vaulting, take a look at AutoVault from
www.coderelief.com.

        For the checkin, we wrote a small PERL script that issues the
checkin
command (we actually have it defined as a server script and the PERL
just
does a RUN CHECKIN), then waits a couple seconds and issues a QUERY
REQUEST,
parses out the reply number  and issues the REPLY <xxx>. You could
probably
do the same thing with a shell script. Makes it automated. We even
schedule
it. The client schedule runs the PERL script (action=command) which
turns
around and does the checkin. We have this running in several sites
with
different SCSI type libraries. Plus PERL is free!

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.