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[Veritas-bu] Status of a robot from command line

2001-10-29 14:21:46
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Status of a robot from command line
From: sq01 AT yorku DOT ca (Steve Quan)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:21:46 -0500 (EST)
Don't know if this will be helpful but, you can try starting ltid with the
-v option (debug info via syslog).

/Steve
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jason Ahrens wrote:

> I am wondering if there is a way to determine the status of a robot from the
> command line. After the issue we had today (which turned out to be the robot
> had dropped a tape) I would like to 'teach' our monitoring system how to
> monitor the robot.
> 
> I have tried a few situations with 'tldtest' without great results (nothing
> seemed immediatly to report on the status of the robot).
> 
> Ieally I'd like something that would generate output similar to 'mt status'
> for tape drives. I saw robtest/tldtest give me the 'error' flage when the
> robot was malfunctioning, but did not see any way to have it report on an
> 'OK' or 'Not OK' status.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jason
> 
> --
> Jason Ahrens
> Systems Administrator/Backup Specialist
> PSINet Canada Inc., a TELUS company
> http://www.psi.ca
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