George Sinclair wrote:
You're point is valid, but I guess my concern was that it could
accidentally happen because someone forgets to exclude them
from the specified slot range. I just find it odd that NetWorker would
actually work with those slots via the GUI but not
the CLI. I wonder if this is some kind of bug.
My experience in the past was that once a slot was set for cleaning,
inventorying the slot effected no action.
I just realized that the cause of the problem is that 'Bar code reader'
was set to 'No' and not 'Yes'. I changed it to 'Yes' and
now NetWorker doesn't inventory those slots when performing an inventory
from the GUI. Also checked again from the
CLI via nsrjb and ditto, not that I would have expected nsrjb to do
anything since it wasn't before. Now, according to
the help page for the jukebox window under nwadmin, it shows the
following for Default Cleanings:
Default Cleanings - Displays the number of times a new cleaning
cartridge added to a jukebox can be used. A cleaning cartridge is
considered new if, during the inventory of a jukebox, a slot set
aside for cleaning cartridges is now occupied, whereas before the
slot was empty. Volumes from slots set aside for cleaning
cartridges are not loaded during an inventory of a jukebox.
Therefore, a jukebox must support element status or a bar code
reader to determine the state of a slot set aside for cleaning
cartridges during inventory. This field can only be set for
jukeboxes that contain tape devices.
Perhaps, when doing things from the GUI, NetWorker could not determine
the state of the slot set aside for cleaning
without the bar code reader on, but it could do this from the CLI? Who
knows. Anyway, I really have to have
'Bar code reader' turned off, though, because we don't have any custom
bar codes yet, only generic ones which I keep
reusing to make operations on the library faster. It's slow without
them. I'll switch once we have them. I guess I just
need to be careful not to inventory those slots from the GUI if 'Bar
code reader' is set to 'No'.
George
Stan Horwitz wrote:
George;
What's the point of inventorying cleaning slots? That makes no sense
to do either via the GUI or CLI. My solution to your inventory
problem is simple; don't bother. Or am I missing something?
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