Ready=no means that either there's no tape loaded, or the tape hasn't
become ready for use yet.


> 
> I'm looking at the Device Management screen under the Drive Status
> panel, and under the column titled "Ready" it's showing "No", which
> seems to indicate a problem. I'm pretty new to Netbackup and was hoping
> someone can give me some pointers on where I should start looking to get
> that fixed (assuming that it is a problem). I'm reading through the
> manuals and haven't come up with anything.
> 
> So far I've tried downing the drive and the bringing it backup up with
> via the drive control commands. I've also tried the reset drive option.
> As a last resort, I tried rebooting the box (which came from my
> experience as an nt admin).
> 
> I looked through the logs to see if I might find something unusual and
> came across the following entries in admin/log.012302:
> 
> 09:24:37 [3928] <2> get_report:
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -A -d 01/22/02 09:24:15 -e
> 01/23/02 23:59:59
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> bpimagelist: INITIATING: NetBackup 3.1.1GA Solaris
> created: 98041620
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> logparams: -A -d 01/22/02 09:24:15 -e 01/23/02
> 23:59:59
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> getsockconnected: host=lejeune service=bpdbm
> address=10.1.3.40 protocol=tcp non-reserved port=13721
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> getsockconnected: host=lejeune service=bpdbm
> address=10.1.3.40 protocol=tcp non-reserved port=13721
> 09:24:37 [4030] <16> imagelist: unexpected return value from
> db_IMAGEreceive: no entity was found 227
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> bpimagelist: no entity was found
> 09:24:37 [4030] <2> bpimagelist: EXIT status = 227
> 
> This is all running on a Solaris 2.6 machine with an attached L280 robot
> with version 3.1.1 of Netbackup. At this point I'm trying to determine
> if the drive needs help or if somehow my Netbackup configuration is the
> problem. If anybody could give me some hints on how to rule out one or
> the other I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Chad
> 
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