One of our Servergraph monitors does, essentially, this:
        dsmadmc ... q libvol | grep Scratch | wc -l
to spit out how many scratch tapes are in use.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com <http://www.servergraph.com>
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Chetan H. Ravnikar
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:23 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: check on allowed scratch tapes!
>
>
> Hello
> I am often caught with my customers complaing, that the client are
> sometimes failing with error server out of storage space!
>
> What I am looking for is, the value which is set in a storage pool
>       *Max allowed scratch tapes*.
> We have 250 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed on OS_TAPEPOOL_SERVER (onsite
> pool), when the numbers starts getting close to 245, a mail gets sent out!
>
> Any select statement statement which gives that value!? I can script
> something.. quickly
>
> thanks for the help
> Chetan
>