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Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info

2005-08-29 16:04:11
Subject: Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
From: Debbie Bassler <Deborah_Bassler AT PAPAJOHNS DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:02:44 -0400
Thanks, Bill....I'll try these statements,,,





William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
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08/29/2005 01:12 PM
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We've added several checks to the TSM Operation hourly monitor report to
check for various tape/drive conditions. Some of them are:

- Search for TAPEALERT messages in the previous hour. Alert if N8950>0.
Must have SET TAPEALERTMSG ON.

select count(*) as N8950 from actlog where msgno in (8948,8949,8950,8951)
and date_time between '%s' and '%s'

- Search for the I/O error messages in the previous hour. Alert if
NIOERRORS>0

select count(*) as NIOERRORS from actlog where msgno in (1401, 8943, 8381)
and date_time between '%s' and '%s'


- Search for paths offline. I think the can'd report only does drives.
Alert if NPO>0

select count(*) as NPO from paths where online='NO'


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Debbie Bassler
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:27 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info

The Operational Reporter shows all drives online. That's because the drive
did not go offline. I had to manually take the drive, and
path, offline.

The error message is that the "volume  ****** could not be mounted into
drive ***". After the SE arrived, we found that the actual
problem was that the pump, for the vacuum that sucks the tape in, had gone
out.

This is not the first time we've had a problem, and didn't know the tape
drive was inaccessible. Last time it was over a weekend.
I'll keep looking.

Thanks for all the input,
Debbie







"Stapleton, Mark" <mark.stapleton AT BERBEE DOT COM> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor
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08/29/2005 10:35 AM
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There isn't, but if you use the hourly monitor facility from TSM's
Operational Reporter, one of the statuses it looks for by default
is offline drives. Since hourly monitor reports can be emailed, the
balance of the task is easily left to the student.


--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management
Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert
(CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627



>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
>Of Debbie Bassler
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:32 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
>
>Our TSM server, 5.1, is on an AIX OS, 4.3.3. Does anyone know of a log
>containing information about the tape drives? One of our drives has
>been inaccessible since 3:20 this morning. I'd like to write a script
>to page me when this happens, but, I don't know if there is a log
>available to pull the information from.
>
>Thanks,
>Debbie
>

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