There isn't, but if you use the hourly monitor facility from TSM's
Operational Reporter, one of the statuses it looks for by default is
offline drives. Since hourly monitor reports can be emailed, the balance
of the task is easily left to the student.


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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
Office 262.521.5627

 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Debbie Bassler
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:32 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
>
>Our TSM server, 5.1, is on an AIX OS, 4.3.3. Does anyone know of a log
>containing information about the tape drives? One of our 
>drives has been
>inaccessible since 3:20 this morning. I'd like to write a 
>script to page
>me when this happens, but, I don't know if there is a log available to
>pull the information from.
>
>Thanks,
>Debbie
>