>From 7.3 onwards they have the jobsd and it talks to libraries via
nsrlcpd acting as an agent on storage nodes which have libraries defined
on them and on sol10 which now uses sgen to access the sji device
instead of legato-uscsi  it 'owns' the device as you have seen
exclusively.

So far the only solution I know is mega ugly - if you disable the
jukebox resource the daemon dies... Your script could do that - query
the sji directly, then re-enable.

It would be much nicer if there was a cli client that could talk to
nsrlcpd and ask it to give you the cap contents - you know, like perhaps
some arg to nsrjb which would list the CAP contents, maybe even a flag
that just passes through the sjirdtag output. But they didn't think of
that.

One other thing to note is the -v flag to nsrjb now at least shows you
barcodes even for blank tapes. Also the new -II flag for doing a fast
inventory can tell you a lot when combined with -v.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Rachel Polanskis
Sent: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 11:38 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] 7.4 on Solaris 10 - sjirdtag

Hi,
on Solaris 10, with networker 7.4.2, the sjirdtag command doesn't work
anymore.    We get "device busy" on the Control Port as it appears
there is a new daemon already bound on the Control Port.

We use this sjirdtag command via the venerable jbscan shell script 
to interrogate the CAP and to check for free tape drives when doing bulk

media management.

What is the equivalent in 7.4.2 and Solaris 10?
Note we have been a 7.2.1 site until last Friday so we're not 100%
up on all the twiddly bits.

NMC won't cut it as it's not scriptable and we want to be able to
continue to use our scripts, with minimal change if possible.

It's a very annoying thing when functionality is taken away, 
for no apparent reason (although someone must think not) with no 
apparent replacement.


rachel

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