Paul said that Servergraph has this functionality - According to our
hardware guys, the 3494 library has some rudimentary mount statistics
available.

I'm going to be looking into both of those options.

Surely someone has already invented this wheel when trying to justify more
tape drives - other than pointing to the smoke coming from the drives and
suggesting that they are slightly overused....





-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:DWIGHT.E.COOK AT SAIC DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:45 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization


Good question, never actually thought about it...
I would think that the sum of the difference between mount & dismount times
for each drive...
OH THANKS..... now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select
statement to do this :-(
if I figure it out, I'll pass it along

Dwight



-----Original Message-----
From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:xjolliff AT TI DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494 Utilization


I saw this topic out on ADSM, and I could not locate any type of functional
resolution ...

What is everyone using to calculate the "wall time" of your tape drive
utilization?