My TSM shares a 3494 with a mainframe; TSM owns about 400 tapes.

Audit completes in 2-3 minutes, depending on how busy the 3494 is.

BUT, audit will NOT run as long as there are other processes using tapes.
Wait to start the audit until there are no tapes mounted by other processes
or sessions.

-----Original Message-----
From: French, Michael [mailto:Michael.French AT SAVVIS DOT NET]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 2:17 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494 audit library time estimate


Anyone out there with an IBM 3494 library that has ever performed an "audit
library" have any idea how long it should take?  I had about 60 tapes that
are in the library but TSM refuses to mount them stating that they are
unavailable (updated the to read/write and tried to audit them).  I
reinventoried on the library side, problem still exists so about 6 hours
ago, I kicked off a library audit on one of my servers that is attached to
the library.  How long should this take?

Relative info:

IBM 3494 library, 1 HA1, 1 L12, 2 D12 frames
8 3590 tape drives
965 tapes in the library
2 TSM servers attached to library
TSM server 2 (one running audit) owns about 500 tapes
TSM 5.1.8.1
Solaris 8

Command used for audit:

audit library ids02atl1 checkl=barcode

Nothing in the logs since this started.  Thanks!

Michael French