We've used this little perl script for years and run it from NRPE plugin for 
our Nagios monitoring system.   It doesn't require NPRE/Nagios though.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
######################################################################################################
# 122002jda
# This script checks the current state of the L700 tape drives
######################################################################################################

# ----------------------------------------Variable 
initialization----------------------------------- #
$STATE_OK = 0;
$STATE_WARNING = 1;
$STATE_CRITICAL = 2;
$STATE_UNKNOWN = 3;

$ENV{'PATH'}="";
$ENV{'ENV'}="";
$ENV{'BASH_ENV'}="";
# ----------------------------------------Execute the system 
cmds----------------------------------- #
$OUT = "/tmp/$$vmoprcmd$$.out";
$list = qx(/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -dl > $OUT);

open(LST,$OUT) || die "Couldn't open $OUT.\n";
  while(<LST>) {
       @format = split(/\s+/,$_);
        if ($format[2] eq "Name") {
                $DriveName = $format[3];
        }
        if ($format[1] eq "Index") {
                $DriveIndex = $format[2];
        }
        if ($format[2] eq "DOWN") {
                print "Drivename: $DriveName DriveIndex: $DriveIndex Is DOWN\n";
                $clean = qx(/usr/bin/rm $OUT);
                exit $STATE_CRITICAL;
        }
   }
close LST;
$clean = qx(/usr/bin/rm $OUT);
print "Drive Status OK\n";
exit $STATE_OK;

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Carlos 
Alberto Lima dos Santos
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:24 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive monitoring?


     look the command vmoprcmd on NetBackup command guide.


====================================
Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA)
Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil
carlos_listas AT yahoo.com DOT br
------------------------------------------------


--- Em seg, 14/9/09, Gravizi, Thomas <Thomas_Gravizi AT steris DOT com> 
escreveu:

> De: Gravizi, Thomas <Thomas_Gravizi AT steris DOT com>
> Assunto: [Veritas-bu] Tape drive monitoring?
> Para: "VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU" <VERITAS-BU AT 
> MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU>
> Data: Segunda-feira, 14 de Setembro de 2009, 17:22
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> 
> Greetings all, 
> 
>    
> 
> We are currently running NBU 6.5.3 on Solaris
> 10, and experienced
> an issue where all of our tape drives on our StorageTek
> L700 went into AVR mode
> this past weekend.  Can someone give me some insight on
> how I can monitor the
> tape drives to notify me when this happens again?  Are
> there scripts out there
> which I can use, or something in NBU which I can
> enable? 
> 
>    
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
>    
> 
> Thomas Gravizi 
> 
> UNIX Systems Administrator 
> 
> Enterprise Operations 
> 
> STERIS Corporation - Mentor, OH 
> 
> thomas_gravizi AT steris DOT com
> 
> 
> 440.392.7630 - phone 
> 
> 440.350.7078 - fax 
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