On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:22:25PM -0500, Arterburn, Michael wrote:

The follwoing messages indicate you've got TapeAlert feature working 
NetBackup received request for cleaning but couldn't proceed without 
cleaning tape in the library. 
I gues you can't get rid of the messages, as soon as you can't 
disable TapeAlert feature. So don't put a cleaning tape into your library and 
you should be 
fine, 

Just wondering.... How you are cleaning your tape drives??

Thanks,
Andrew
> The following messages appeared in my message log and I am curious as to why
> it is attempting to clean the drives.  I have an STKL700 with 20 drives and
> it is set to auto-clean on the hardware side.  If Veritas is set to clean
> somehow, where is this setting and how can I turn it off?  
> 
> Any help in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Mike 
>   
> 
> > +++---/var/adm/messages---++++
> > Jan 22 03:12:29  avrd[2330]: [ID 185362 daemon.notice] Tape drive
> > Rob2drv12 (device 11, /dev/rmt/22cbn) needs cleaning.  Attempting to
> > auto-clean...
> > Jan 22 03:12:30  avrd[2330]: [ID 148647 daemon.error] Automatic cleaning
> > failed.
> > Jan 22 03:34:55  ltid[2191]: [ID 322626 daemon.error] Automatic cleaning
> > of TLD(2) drive index 11 failed because there is no cleaning tape or the
> > cleaning tape is used up
> > 
> > 
> > 

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