Tapes go unavailable when you halt, eh?

Thanks.

I sure would like to continue my lazy ways, though.  Think you could
mail me a couple of hours of your activity log around the time when the
tape goes unavailable?  I'd like to see why...

Either way, thanks for the input.  I haven't seen this - but maybe I
just wasn't looking hard.

Scott Fluegge wrote:
>
> Lindsay,
>
> I have had a problem when I stop the server and it still has tapes in the
> drives.  It updates the volume status, making it unavailable.  To insure this
> does not happen I want to unmunt any mounted volumes.  I need to stop the
> processes only to make sure they do not request new mounts after my script 
> runs
> to un-mount and before it issues the halt command.
>
> Scott
>
> Lindsay Morris <lmorris AT OPENMIC DOT COM> on 04/17/2000 08:42:59 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Scott Fluegge/COR/MLW/US/venatorgroup)
> Subject:  Re: Stoping the server through a script
>
> perhaps I'm naive, but...
>
> I have frequently done a "halt" on the ADSM (TSM) server when it's
> busy.  it
> always comes back up, no problem, and picks up where it left off.
>
> So what is the concern? i mean why do you need to carefully cancel
> every process and every sesssion and unmount every tape
> before you shut it down?
>
> Scott Fluegge wrote:
> >
> > Question...
> >
> > I am trying to write a script that can be put in rc.shutdown that will
> > gracefully bring down the adsm server.  That means I need to insure that 
> > there
> > are no tapes mounted.  I can write a script that will chack for mounts and
> even
> > un-mount tapes.  The problem I am having is checking for processes running 
> > and
> > then stoping them.  If I just unmount the tapes, and if something like
> > reclemation is running, another tape will just be mounted.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to get the process numbers into a script?  There 
> > is
> no
> > unique entry on the process line (when "q pr" is used) that I can grep for 
> > as
> I
> > can with requests or mounts!
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott
>
> --
> Mr. Lindsay Morris
> Certified: AIX,ADSM, TSM, HACMP,SP
> Gresham Enterprise Storage
> lmorris AT openmic DOT com
> 606-253-8000

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Certified: AIX,ADSM, TSM, HACMP,SP
Gresham Enterprise Storage
lmorris AT openmic DOT com
606-253-8000