--- Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM> wrote:
> > We have a quantum P4000 that has autoloading feature: whenever a tape is 
> > inserted into the
> > loadport and the tape will be moved from the loadport to the storage bin as 
> > soon as the
> loadport
> > is closed. 
> 
> > This is all nice and dandy, Legato networker, however, has no ideas of this 
> > happending. As a
> > result, the tapes are loaded but I have no idea where they went, short of 
> > re-inventorying the
> > entire library. 
> 
> I think that's what's expected.  With barcodes in use, that should only
> take a few seconds, except for the new tapes.  
> 
> Does an inventory take a long time for you?

Inventorying all the slots does take a long time. That's not my complaint 
though. What I have been
doing is 
(1) put the tapes in the load ports, 
(2) use 'nsrjb -d' to load the tapes into availabe slots, 
(3) find what slots those tapes went into (with a nsrjb -C command and grep *), 
(4) run 'nsrjb -I' and 'nsrjb -L' to lable them.

Why do I have to go through this? Our windows side uses CommVault for backup 
with same type of
tape library, they never have to go through this. The only step they do is to 
load the tapes into
load port, and all new loads will show up on the software side.

> 
> > Is there a way for the library to notify/update the networker software
> > of import/export events?
> 
> No.  Not when networker's not in control (as it would be with a deposit
> or withdraw command).
> 
> -- 
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT 
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