The easiest way is to put it in a CGI executable directory (in Apache it's
a directory with ExecCGI option in the httpd.conf file) and make sure the file
has executable permissions set.
Cheers, Suad
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:00:44PM +0200, Stan Vernaillen wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:00:44PM +0200, Stan Vernaillen wrote:
> Robin,
>
> Thanks for you precise answer.
>
> now a bit offtopic maybe...regarding your perl script.
> I've put it in the root of the webserver, but when I point my browser at it,
> it
> just displays the contents of your script as a text file, it does not execute
> it.
> OS is AIX, perl is 5.6.0
> Is this me , or can I blame something else?
>
> Stan
>
>
>
>
> Robin Sharpe <Robin_Sharpe AT BERLEX DOT COM> on 26/07/2001 16:40:53
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc: (bcc: Stan Vernaillen/BE/CCE)
> Subject: Re: Tape volume list ?
>
>
>
> >The thing is that i'm not interested in the Storage pool volumes or
> volumes
> >in the library,...
> >I want to know ALL volumes.
> >Also the DB backups, the scratch tapes in the desk of the Media team, ...
> >Basicly every tape that has ever been labeled on that server.
>
> >How else do you know what label to give to a new tape ?
> >I know I've labeled tape ec0001 through eC0100, but if a colleague wants
> to
> >label ten more, how does he know they have to be ec0101 to ec0110 if q
> >vol,.. shows the highest volume in use, or the library to be ec0071 ?
>
> Stan,
>
> Unfortunately, you've uncovered one the, ummmm, "clumsy" parts of TSM. The
> way TSM manages scratch tapes, that is, tapes that are now empty and ready
> to be re-used, is to not manage them at all! What TSM does when a tape
> becoms empty and is brought back onsite, is delete it from the volumes
> table. It will not be known to TSM again until it is checked into a
> library as a scratch, and then it will be in the libvolumes table.
> However, the volhistory table (do a "q volhist", the output may be large)
> does keep a record of when the tape was used and deleted. If the tape has
> been re-used five times, there should be ten records in volhistory -- a
> "STGNEW" and a "STGDELETE" for each use. This table is also where TSM DB
> backups and backupsets are managed (they do not belong to any storage pool,
> and are not in the volumes table).
>
> You also said you need to track the tapes in the drawer of your media
> group... TSM cannot do that, you'll have to do it manually. Those tapes
> are the ones that were deleted when they came back from the vault, and will
> not be seen again until they get checked in. Ideally, in TSM, you should
> check ALL tapes back into the library as soon as possible (maybe keep a
> couple on hand in case you need to do a quick backup and have no
> scratches). This presumes of course that your library is large enough to
> hold all of your tapes (ours isn't, so we're in process of upgrading to a
> larger library).
>
> As for knowing what label to allocate next, you'll have to manually track
> that also. As Matt said, I think most of us use pre-printed barcode
> labels, and that is basically the "volser number tracking system".
>
> Sorry I can't give any better advice... we've been down the same road,
> trying to locate missing tapes. They are a fact of life, I guess. That's
> what originally prompted me to write the qtapet Perl script.
>
> Robin Sharpe
> Berlex Laboratories
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