I am using vmoprcmd to watch the status of the drives. Unfortunatly, that
didn't help with the situation today where the robot malfunctioned, but the
drives themselves were fine. The robot sat in an 'intervention required'
state but it never set off alarms as the drives were still in an UP and OK
state. I could have started feeding them tapes manually probably. When I was
trying to do some diagnostics I saw 'robtest' spit back soem information
about the robot (presumably gathered through tldtest) stating that manual
intervention was required. I'd like to access this sense key data that
robtest/tldtest returned. The difference is, I can't seem to duplicate it
when the robot is working fine.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: October 29, 2001 15:56
> To: Jason Ahrens
> Cc: Veritas BU
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status of a robot from command line
> 
> 
> $ vmoprcmd -d ds
> 
> will show you the drive(s) status from the CLI.  If it's AVR, there's
> probably something up with the robot.  Of course, it could just be
> that someone has the door open or something, so you'd want to wait a
> few minutes before paging someone (at least if that someone is you).
> 
> HTH,
> L