Oh, forgot to mention, with a lan card, if you have libraries scattered all over 10-buck-2 you have the ability to define all those libraries to a single environment and monitor their status (easily) from there. Remember, you don't need drives in an atl to be able to communicate with it. Example we have 7 atl's in 3 locations across 2 states, we have one utility server with all 7 atl's defined to it and you may do things like for LIBR in $(lsdev -Cctape | grep lmcp | cut -d' ' -f1) do mtlib -l/dev/$LIBR -qL | egrep -i '(paused|degraded)' if [ ?$ -eq 0 ] then echo $LIBR having problems | mail -s ATL_BROKE myid@myhostname fi done
Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Ganu Sachin, IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ethernet connection IBM 3494 Hi Is there great significance in getting LAN card for IBM 3494. I mean what are the things you can manage using LAN card and also with RS-232 cable ? Regards Sachin