George:

Try MTX for controlling the jukebox without nsrjb:

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx

Best regards,

        --PLB

At 12:45 PM 3/10/2003 -0500, George Sinclair wrote:

Yes, Davina is correct. It's the /etc/stinint.def file, not
/etc/st.conf. I must have been thinking in the Solaris world. The one
problem I have with the nsrjb command to load a blank tape using -'n'
parameter is that you're still using NetWorker to do it. I guess the
whole idea of being able to Not use NetWorker is in the event that
NetWorker is completely hosed up in some manner, and you want to
completely remove NetWorker from the test equation. Like maybe there's
been some kind of error on a drive and NetWorker refuses to work with it
even though the drive is fine. On our P1000 tape libraries I would have
no problem using the library GUI to load a tape in there, assuming, of
course, the drive was working properly, but I have seen cases where
NetWorker was too confused or discombobulated to do it under nwadmin.

Davina, will 'nsrjb -l -n' still work for loading a tape in a particular
slot and drive if NetWorker has lost the ability to communicate with the
drive via nwadmin? In other words, if Nwadmin refuses to work with the
drive, but the drive will accept tapes manually by phsically loading
them, will the nsrjb command still work for the affected drive?

Any ball park figure on the cost of Horizon?

Thanks.

George

Davina Treiber wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:04:16 -0500, George Sinclair
> <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:
>
> >1. Make certain you have a proper /etc/st.conf file.
>
> Isn't it something like stinit.def on Linux?
>
> >One thing I don't like about the L80 is the fact that they offer no way
> >to move tapes around in the library without opening the door or using
> >your backup software. The problem, of course, is that you can't use
> >NetWorker to move a tape into a drive without mounting it.
>
> You can - use nsrjb -l -n
>
> >Now you can buy a package that apparently runs over
> >the WEB and uses the ip address of the library, and it's sold by
> >Storagetek,
>
> You can - and it's superb. At least the version for the L180/L700 anyway.
> It's called Horizon Monitor. I don't know if it's quite the same for the
> smaller libraries in the range.
>
> >You have to look through this narrow window
> >into the box and physically eyeball the slots. Of course, it's dark in
> >there. The least they could have done is put a light in there.
>
> Right! Even the L700 doesn't have a light inside - now what would that have
> cost? Couldn't agree more.
>
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