This is as in interesting tidbit which I had not known before.  Just browsing
the list as a matter of course has it's value!  I checked the command on our 3.4
Solaris system, and found the following:

tpconfig -data is undocumented, but works and returns a list like the GUI
"Device Monitor" including the robot numbers a line at a time.
tpconfig -d is documented, and includes devices and robotic path and volume
hosts separately.  Relatively compact with two lines per device.  Documented in
MM SysAdm P319
tpconfig -dl Same information as -d except each drive/attribute combination has
a line, so each drive has 7 lines of display.  (flag came from a tpconfig -help)

There are probably other undocumented flags.  Oh, and tpconfig -dl only works on
the current control host.

Thanks for the pointer, and I hope the additional detail helps someone....Gerrit

"David A. Chapa" wrote:

> Mark:
>
> use tpconfig -data
>
> should give you what you are looking for.
>
> David
>
> Quoting "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>:
>
> > I'm looking for a place to query the robotic control host for a particular
> > robot.
> >
> > What I've got is a set of scripts and I'm planning now that there'll be
> > another robot in the near future.
> >
> > A number of the commands, like vmchange, require a robotic control host.
> > Rather that hard code it, I'd like to look it up somewhere.  It looks like
> > I
> > can set it through tpconfig but I can't find a place to query it back out.
> > I see that I can use "strings" on /usr/openv/volmgr/database/robotic_def
> > but
> > that's a bit crude and probably subject to change.
> >
> > Anybody know where to find this?
> >
> > -M
> >
>
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