Never mind. The full value's in the "long" format.  (What you get if you 
don't specify -b or -w.)

At 02:44 PM 2/2/01 -0600, Michael Wei wrote:

>The only place on the master that might have this information is acutally
>in the VM database.  vmquery -w -a will give out all the media that VM
>knows and if they're in a library, shows the robot # and the robot control
>host.  A Perl script can parse it pretty easily:
>
>#!/opt/third-party/bin/perl
>
>open(VMQUERY, "vmquery -w -a |");
>
># skip first three lines of garbage
>$line = <VMQUERY>; $line = <VMQUERY>; $line = <VMQUERY>;
>
>while ($line = <VMQUERY>) {
>     @tmp = split /\s+/, $line;
>     next if ($tmp[7] eq "-");
>     $robot_control_host{$tmp[7]} = $tmp[5];
>}
>
>foreach $robot_num (keys %robot_control_host) {
>     print "$robot_num\t$robot_control_host{$robot_num}\n";
>}
>
>--Mike
>
> > From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu  Fri Feb  2 13:41:04 
> > 2001
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> >
> > I have the robot NUMBER. What I want is the name of the server that
> > actually has robotic control over the robot.
> >
> > I know that I can rsh/ssh to each of the servers and run tpconfig -d, and
> > that the server that has robotic control will say "robotic path=," and the
> > servers that are just using some of its drives will say "robotic host=."
> >
> > HOWEVER, I need a way to do this from the master WITHOUT SSHing to the
> > media servers.  (This method doesn't work too well with NT media servers,
> > for one thing.)
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >
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>
>
>--
>Mike Wei       Collective Technologies, a Pencom Company
>Email: wei AT colltech DOT com