$ vmoprcmd -d ds

will show you the drive(s) status from the CLI.  If it's AVR, there's
probably something up with the robot.  Of course, it could just be
that someone has the door open or something, so you'd want to wait a
few minutes before paging someone (at least if that someone is you).

HTH,
L

Jason Ahrens writes:
> I am wondering if there is a way to determine the status of a robot from the
> command line. After the issue we had today (which turned out to be the robot
> had dropped a tape) I would like to 'teach' our monitoring system how to
> monitor the robot.
> 
> I have tried a few situations with 'tldtest' without great results (nothing
> seemed immediatly to report on the status of the robot).
> 
> Ieally I'd like something that would generate output similar to 'mt status'
> for tape drives. I saw robtest/tldtest give me the 'error' flage when the
> robot was malfunctioning, but did not see any way to have it report on an
> 'OK' or 'Not OK' status.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jason
> 
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> PSINet Canada Inc., a TELUS company
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