Or use the (just released) TS3500 CLI:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159&uid=ssg1S4000854
Quote:
Abstract
The IBM TS3500 Command Line Interface (CLI) program can be used to access
the TS3500 library from a CLI. This is in addition to the TS3500’s Web
Specialist.
One of the commands you can issue is:
-viewCleaningCartridges : Views all cleaning cartridges.
I haven't tried it yet and am not sure if it lists the usecount.
Another command is:
-removeExpiredCleaningCartridges
2010/3/19 Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl>
> On 18 mrt 2010, at 17:05, John D. Schneider wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> > This is a followup to Wanda's question about cleaning tapes on an
> > IBM3584 library. I wondered if there was any way to do it using
> > tapeutil. When I call tapeutil with:
> >
> > tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory
> > or
> > tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 cartridgelocation
> >
> > either one will give me a report of all the slots in the library and
> > what is in them. But wait a minute, it is not a report of ALL the
> > slots. When I tried to use it to find out what slots had cleaning
> > tapes, I found out that neither of these reports will show the cleaning
> > tapes! They show empty slots, and ones with tapes in them, but they
> > don't show slots that have cleaners. I suppose this is by design, but I
> > can't imagine why.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or
> > similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are
> > left?
> >
>
> as said before, with ALMS, the cleaners are owned and managed by the
> library, they are completely invisible to the systems ,hey don't even take
> up slots in the systems' library partitions. The only way to find out is
> through the great web panels....
>
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > John D. Schneider
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> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,
>
> Remco Post
>
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