> Whenever the door for the load ports is opened and closed, the library 
> inventories the load ports (as is should) but then NetWorker decides that 
> that isn't good enough and scans all the slots in the library (adds about 20 
> minutes to depositing tapes). 


This is expected default behavior with NetWorker controlling the jukebox.

>From the NetWorker point of view, nsrlcpd detects the library offline and 
>changes the status as not ready.  It then Keeps on polling until the jukebox 
>does respond.  At this time, NetWorker has no way of knowing what has changed 
>in the library, and therefore must verify that the contents has not changed by 
>doing an element status check, comparing this against the volume list that is 
>in the jukebox resource, and then updating the list if there is a change.  
>Without this, NetWorker volume list can be outdated and not in sync with the 
>current jukebox contents, and then can potentially cause a mess of load and 
>unload failures.

Now this can be changed.  In the jukebox option, there is an option that can 
allow you to choose so that NetWorker does not perform this check.  There are 
two that controls this:

no_elem_status_check
no_init_elem_status_check

Selecting these will tell NetWorker that you don't want it to perform this 
scan.  It will then be the user's responsibility to reset and inventory the 
library as required if the jukebox contents have changed in any way.

But, in the case where someone is just opening and closing the j/b door, then 
this is not an issue.

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