Thank you Mark, and the other people who respond to this.  Your answers
to the questions of those less experienced, (like myself), is greatly
appreciated!

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Mark Stapleton
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Unavailable volume

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Kerry Campbell
I received an unusual message in my TSM report today, that told me there
is one volume unavailable.   

How could this condition occur, how can I locate the unavailable volume,
and in general what is the remedy.



There could be many causes for an unavailable volume, each of which
would require a different approach to fix and prevent.

The first thing to do is discovery which volume is unavailable; this is
easy: 

  Q VOLUME ACCESS=UNAVAILABLE. 

The next thing you need to do is to discovery why it happened. Check
your TSM server's activity log; do a search for the name of the volume
(search='A00001', for example). Do a similar search for the string
UNAVAILABLE.

Examine the volume itself. Run Q VOLUME A00001 F=D. Are there any
read_errors? write_errors?

--
Mark Stapleton (mark.s AT evolvingsol DOT com)
Senior consultant

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