Re: TSM an STK L80 LTO

Serge,

> Hi there,
> I have a L80 and I'm looking for  a solution in order to manage this
> robot without a backup software.
> I have TSM 4.2 for AIX 4.3.3 but this soft doesn't manage the CAP for
> example.
>
> I would like to know if there are some UNIX commands in order to :
> 1) put on and remove from a cartdrigne into and from the CAP.
> 2) put on and remove from a cartdrige into and from a drive.
> 3) know the CAP status (empty or full).
> 4) know the status of a cartdrige inside the library.

We are running an STK L80 without any problems on TSM Version 4, Release 2,
Level 1.9.
Also on AIX 4.3.3ML10

It manages the input/output station just as like any other Tape library.
Checkin/checkout works fine.
The only thing I encountered is that I had to define the library on AIX
manually
using mkdev.

# lsdev -Cc library
lb0 Available 30-60-00-6,0 Tivoli Storage Manager Library

Furthermore we used the TSM tape device drivers instead of Atape.
Have to fix that in time...

If you connect your STK to the network, you get a basic (view only)
interface of the STK-L80. And yes, an I/O cap sized 5 is a bit small,
especially for DR. Luckily, the customer running on it has little
storage and just 3 storage-pools, so my DR set is daily 4 LTO tapes.
So I have space for one occasional incremental DBB without calling
the tape-guys....

> Some others general questions.
> Is there any product delivered with the L80 in order to do that ?
> If I want eject 6 cartdriges, how can I do without type any reply in TSM
> and above all without any human intervention (except of course when the
> CAP is full :-))  ?
> How can I manage a queue of process (checkin or checkout), ADSM did it
> correctly with a 3494.

Create a script that does the reply for you. We issue a move DRMEDIA
scheduled
by TSM and kick off a reply script using cron that does the reply for us.


Marcel Anthonijsz
Central Data Storage Manager (a.k.a. storman)
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