A follow up to the question posed below is when you do the vmquery -a -w,
what does each column mean, does someone have a breakdown of each column?
Can you tell which tapes are available to be used and which ones are full by
running either the vmquery -a -w or by running bpmedialist -L/-l -mlist?  I
think the status field has something to do with it but I don't know what
these mean:
status = 0x0
status = 0x1
status = 0x11
status = 0x200
status = 0x8
status = 0x28
status = 0x108
status = 0x128
status = 0x208
status = 0x228

Thank You
David




From: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>
To: "'Ram Ramachandran'" <ram AT techmate DOT com>,
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Command Line Help
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:09:44 -0600

Tapes in the library can be gotten either querying the library directly and
parsing or by asking NB's Volume Manager.

vmquery -a -w | awk 'NR>3 && $9!="-" {print $9 "\t" $1}' | sort 

(first number is slot, second is tape num)

Note, this will report tapes in the drives, too.  If they're in the library,
whether it's in the drive or not, this will let you know.

Tapes in the drives can be gotten with "vmoprcmd -d ds"

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Ram Ramachandran [mailto:ram AT techmate DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:24 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Command Line Help


Hi All,

Is there a NetBackup command line command/utility in Unix that I can use to
get a list of tapes in a library and drives? This is if I don't want to use
the GUI and want to write some scripts to automate certain tasks.

Thanks for your help.

Ram