Andrey,

All I am going to say is this ...
I have (2 x STK-9710's) + (2 x STK-9740's) + (2 x STK-L700's)
In all cases I let the robot clean the drives as needed.
I am runing NB 3.2 Patch 443 and starting to use SSO.
I have yet to run into a problem with tape mounts colliding with 
drive cleanings that I am aware of.



Andrey Shinkarev wrote:
> 
> I've got some responses from different people which allow me to say
> Auto Clean feature on STK L700 doesn't work with NetBackup 3.2
> with SSO.
> According to Veritas Tech Support:
> 
> > The robot has to be smart enough to not load a real tape into a drive that
> > already has a cleaning tape, if it is going to support this option.
> > NetBackup only makes requests of the robot, the robot has to keep track of
> > what it's doing... but, you already know this.
> 
> Does anyone know how Tape Alert feature works on STK L700 libraries?
> Does it work or not?
> 
> Another question:
> Cleaning on time basis is not recomended for multihosted tape drives.
> is it becouse of inability of NetBackup to count of time usage on
> different systems?
> 
> Thanks again for everyone who responded for me.
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:55:44AM -0600, Andrey Shinkarev wrote:
> 
> > We are using Auto Clean Feature in our STK L700 with DLT7000 tape drives.
> > It works fine but sometimes we are getting tape drives downed for
> > the following reason
> >
> > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) key = 0x5, asc = 0x3a, 
> > ascq = 0
> > x0, MEDIUM NOT PRESENT
> > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) Move_medium error: CHECK 
> > CONDIT
> > ION
> > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldcd[16650]: TLD(6) could not move barcoded 
> > tape CL
> > N499   from drive 6 to outport
> > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldd[17882]: TLD(6) drive 6 (device 5) is being 
> > DOWN
> > ED, status: Robotic dismount failure
> > Nov 19 17:02:28 uback-ap9-1 tldd[17882]: Check integrity of the drive, 
> > drive pat
> > h, and media
> >
> > We are running 3.2 with the patch 443.
> >
> > If anyone had this problem before?
> >
> >
> > The problem is NetBackup doesn't know about the cleaing tape and has 0
> > cleaning interval for the tape drive. If I try to clean the tape drive
> > I am getting "No cleaning tape defined in the device's robot"
> > And the cleaning tape itself doesn't  exist in NetBackup database.
> > I couldn't find any cleaning request in log files, for an old libraries
> > without the Auto Clean feature I saw them a lot.
> > We have 3 libraries and having the problem on all of them.
> > Fast Load feature doesn't solve the problem. We have had it
> > enabled and disabled but still had this problem.
> >
> > The Auto Clean Feature works but it looks like NetBackup and
> > the library fight for the tape drive and NetBackup doens't win.
> > I think the cleaning operation should be blocked and NetBackup
> > must wait until it's done.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > ----
> > Andrew Shinkarev
> > Network Systems Specialist
> > Abbott Laboratories
> > (847) 9387559
> > shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> --
> ----
> Andrew Shinkarev
> Network Systems Specialist
> Abbott Laboratories
> (847) 9387559
> shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com
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