David,


   I think you could easily work with SELECT * FROM SUMMARY WHERE
ACTIVITY='TAPE MOUNT'

   You can see in the results in which drive your tapes got mounted. If you
have a high number of mounts, maybe it should be better to limit the select
to a specific date/time, or specific volumes, to avoid a large number of
result being displayed.



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Tivoli Certified Consultant - Storage Manager
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-----Mensagem original-----
De: David Stabler [mailto:dstabler AT MORRISONHOMES DOT COM]
Enviada em: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:03
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Assunto: Tape History....


Is there a nice easy way to tell where a tape has been?

I'm experiencing about a 15-20% failure rate, over time, in tapes in my 3584
LTO (Ultrium, not DLT).  The tapes that are failing are from varied vendors,
but all are non-IBM tapes.  I'm afraid that one of the drives is potentially
causing physical harm (tapes sent off for analysis have shown, in some
cases, damage after 150ft) but I don't want to have IBM just replace
everthing without having an idea of what I'm after.

What could I do to gather that information?  I could run a nightly script
watching tape activity, of course, and keep that data, but I'm wondering if
Tivoli keeps that conveniently.



David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE
Senior Systems Analyst