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[Veritas-bu] Vault eject wont complete until tapes are removed from the CAP.

2004-06-25 13:37:45
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault eject wont complete until tapes are removed from the CAP.
From: shmick AT gmail DOT com (Steve Mickeler)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:37:45 -0400
Rob,

Thanks for the tip. I'll give the vlt_starteject_notify script a try
and go from there.

Thanks.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:19:13 -0500, Rob Worman <rob AT worman DOT org> wrote:
> 
> Steve-
> 
> What you are encountering ("the eject isn't complete until the
> tapes are removed") is true for normal NBU ejects as well as
> Vault ejects.
> 
> This is always true for ACSLS robots due to the nature of
> ACSLS ejects, and in the name of consistency the same requirement
> exists for non-ACSLS robots as well.
> 
> Because vault doesn't produce the reports until AFTER the
> ejects have completed, I bet your your operators are in need
> of a "trigger" to remove ejected tapes from the robot.
> Assuming that you are running NBU 4.5 FP5/6 or NBU 5.x, there
> is a "vlt_starteject_notify" script that can be used for this
> exact purpose.  There is an example script in
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/
> 
> HTH
> rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0400 or thereabouts, Steve Mickeler wrote:
> > We have 2  vault profiles. A duplication profile and an eject profile.
> >
> > When the eject profile runs, it ejects the tapes into the CAP of the
> > L700 but the vault eject profile wont send the emails that this is
> > finished until the tapes are removed from the CAP.
> >
> > The follow messages appear in the system logs until this is done:
> >
> > Jun 24 18:01:07 harbor acsd[14514]: [ID 957372 daemon.notice]
> > DecodeExternal() Actual status: STATUS_SUCCESS
> >
> > Jun 24 18:01:37 harbor acsd[152]: [ID 491975 daemon.warning] ACS(0)
> > Response has not been returned by Eject command sequence 1702, ACS
> > status = 72, STATUS_PENDING
> >
> > The "DecodeExternal() Actual status: STATUS_SUCCESS" will repeat every
> > 30 seconds and then every 5 minutes the " Eject command sequence 1702,
> > ACS status = 72, STATUS_PENDING" will appear.
> >
> > This is starting to cause other problems such as other tapes being
> > ejected into the CAP to fail as it wont allow that to happen until the
> > vaulted tapes are removed from the CAP first.
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