Harry - use the ACSLS to take care of this. Here is more than you ever wanted 
to know!


I share an SL8500 between NB and an AS/400, it works fine.

I use Access Control, and watch_vols to assign tapes, I never see the AS/400 
tapes in my inventory.
(go to SUN web site and find pdf ACSLS73ADM.pdf - the Admin Guide)

All files have fairly good test help inside.

1. Define your controlling systems (mine are edla and edlb for NB, SYS400 for 
AS/400)
        Modify file {ACSS HOME}/data/external/access_control/internet.addresses
############################################################################
99.99.99.9      SYS400  # AS/400 IP address
99.99.99.7      edla    # CBC-DL-1528-A IP address
99.99.99.8      edlb    # CBC-DL-1528-B IP address


2. Set up groups - defines groups of users based on addresses in step 1. I add 
user acsss for operator access.
        Modify file {ACSS HOME}/data/external/access_control/users.ALL.allow
############################################################################
edl     edla    edlb    acsss
SYS400  CBC400  acsss   

3. Define Tape groups on acsls server:
        Modify file {ACSS HOME}/data/external/vol_attr.dat

It has good comments in it, here is my last few lines:
# Volser | Owner | Pool | Force | Move to LSM
000000-999999|edl||force|
I00000-I99999|SYS400||force|

Tapes 000000-99999 are owned by edl (which is a group, for NB) 
Tapes I00000-I99999 are AS/400 tapes and do not show up in NB

4. Start watch_vols (watch_vols start)

5. Audit your robot.

6. I actually set up a script my operators can run :
# cat chown.tapes.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# uses cmd_proc_shell to issue commands to cmd_proc
#
#############################################################

echo "changing owner of 000000-999999"
/export/home/ACSSS/utils/cmd_proc_shell set owner edl vol 000000-999999
echo
echo "changing owner of CLNU00-CLNU99"
/export/home/ACSSS/utils/cmd_proc_shell set owner SYS vol CLNU00-CLNU99
echo
echo "changing owner of I00000-I99999"
/export/home/ACSSS/utils/cmd_proc_shell set owner SYS400 vol I00000-I99999
echo

/export/home/ACSSS/bin/volrpt -f ~acsss/data/external/volrpt/owner_id.volrpt


Hope that helps!



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Subject[Veritas-bu] Sharing a library
We have an SL8500 that will be sharing applications (NetBackup and Quantum 
Storage Manager).

The Quantum will be using 9840D tape drives and NetBackup will use LTO4, and we 
are not hard partitioning the library. The tapes for the
different apps have different barcode schemes. The NBU tapes all start with 
BKP***.

Is there a way to tell NBU to only add tapes that start with BKP to its volume 
database?

I have scanned through the manuals and done some volume previews with different 
options and nothing has worked so far. ACSLS reports both
9840D and LTO tapes as HCART so I cant specify that way...

Harry S.
Atlanta
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