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Re: [Networker] How to view CAP door contents?

2005-06-17 23:25:08
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to view CAP door contents?
From: Ken Gehring <kgehring AT MYREALBOX DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:19:56 -0600
If you're running Linux or UNIX you can try the mtx utilities

    mtx status
will show all the contents and
   mtx status | tail -5

will give you the CAP contents on an L80

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Sinclair" <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to view CAP door contents?


> The sjirdtag binary works just dandy. A bit effusive, but the
> information is all there. Found at least one shell script on google that
> apparently makes sense of all the output, but I found the output to be
> logical enough. Again, though, appears  that only root users can run
> these binaries. Non-root user attempts to run:
>
> ./sjirdtg scsidev@#.#.#
>
> and gets error:
>
> scsidev@#.#.#: No such device
>
> Guess this is another case for setting up sudo.
>
> George
>
> Davina Treiber wrote:
>
> >George Sinclair wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is there any way to view the contents of a (C)atridge (A)ccess (P)ort?
> >>We have a Storagetek L80tape library with a CAP door that has 5 slots.
> >>If I had some tapes in there, I could look on the library gui panel and
> >>see the names of the tapes if they had bar codes, but if I'm not at the
> >>library, is there a way I can do this remotely via NetWorker? Didn't see
> >>any options in nsrjb to do this. '-C' only shows contents of regular
> >>operation slots, not CAP.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Not from within NetWorker itself, but of course sjirdtag can do it,
> >assuming your tapes are barcoded.
> >
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