Tammy,

I'm not answering the question of which slots are available, but
rather how many slots are available with this script.  I use it as
part of our monitoring environment where the script is run every 5
minutes and the data is logged and graphed by mrtg.  Hope this helps a
bit.

--Larry

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#!/bin/sh

# Report on NetBackup data for mrtg
# Topic: Library scratch tapes / open library slots

# NB: This assumes a single robot...

PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin

RT=TLD
RN=0
SIZE=384

scratch=`vmquery -l -pn Scratch | awk '{print $7, $8}' | \
         grep "$RT $RN" | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`

media=`vmquery -l -rn $RN | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
free=`expr $SIZE - $media`

echo $scratch
echo $free
date
hostname
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:46:05PM -0400, Yosifovski, Tammy commenced mumbling:
> 
> I am looking for a Netbackup 4.5.3 (Unix and Windows) command that would
> produce a list of which tapes slots are available/do not contain tapes.
> 
> Thank you for your help!!
> 
> 
> Tammy Yosifovski
> 
> 
> 
> 
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