Where did you find TS3500WebInterfaceCLI which is apparently needed by
this interface?

>>> Marcel Anthonijsz <marcel.anthonijsz AT GMAIL DOT COM> 3/19/2010 4:08 AM
>>>
Curious as I was, I just tried it and it shows the clean remaining:

*java -jar TS3500CLI.jar -a lib1 --viewCleaningCartridges*
View all cleaning cartridges at 2010/03/19 09:05:13
Volume Serial, Logical Library, Element Address,    Media Type,
Location, Cleans Remaining, Most Recent Usage
     CLNU69L1,   Cln Cartridge,               0, LTO Ultrium-1, Slot
(F1 C1
R2),               42,    Not Applicable

2010/3/19 Marcel Anthonijsz <marcel.anthonijsz AT gmail DOT com>

> 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
>> > The Computer Coaching Community, LLC
>> > Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226
>> > Cell: (314) 750-8721
>>
>> --
>>
>> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,
>>
>> Remco Post
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Kind Regards, Groetje,
>
> Marcel Anthonijsz
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> M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
>



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