Dave,

This isn't what you were asking for but I ran into a similar problem once and
implemented some simple scripts on my AIX servers to send a daily health report
of the server via sendmail to a group of people. I run this out of cron early in
the morning and late afternoon.

Here is an output of one:

The number of scratch tapes in ADSMSERVER1 is:

      13


The Tape Drive Status on ADSMSERVER1 is:

DRIVE01   Online:Yes
DRIVE02   Online:Yes
DRIVE03   Online:Yes
DRIVE04   Online:Yes


The % used of the DB on ADSMSERVER1 is:

16.6

The % used of the LOG on ADSMSERVER1 is:

0.0







"Frost, Dave" <dave.frost AT GUARDIANIT DOT COM> on 04/05/2000 10:47:00 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>








 To:      ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

 cc:      (bcc: Bill Maloney/SSC/US/PepBoys)



 Subject: running dsmserv as a ksh co-routine









Hi, *Smers

We have been bitten (HARD) by a tape drive going bad - it gave a write
error, but adsm carried on using it for many, many tapes.  A significant
percentage of these were then rendered unreadable.  We have recovered them
all, but it was a major job.

I have been considering running dsmserv as a ksh co-routine so that I can
trap a message such as ANR8302E containing the string OP=WRITE, and issue a
command to vary the affected drive offline until we can investigate.

Is anybody running dsmserv in this way?  Any problems or disadvantages?  It
<seems> ok on our test rig so far.

Tia

dave


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