We have servergraph,,,I'll look at doing that and having it notify us.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions,,,,,,
Debbie




David E Ehresman <deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE DOT EDU>
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Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com, can send alert emails based on any 
message that appears in the TSM log.
That's how we get notified that a drive is having a problem.

David Ehresman
University of Louisville

>>> Deborah_Bassler AT PAPAJOHNS DOT COM 08/29/05 12:26 PM >>>
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>
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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.


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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
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Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
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>-----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
>