FYI...
Further investigation show that if the I/O station is full (10 tapes) and no
more need to be ejected you see "all output stations full"...
Library Data:
operational state..........Automated Operational State
functional state...........00
input stations.............1
output stations............1
input/output status........ALL input stations empty
ALL output stations full
machine type...............3494
sequence number............13256
number of cells............1882
but as soon as you try to eject an 11th tape you get the additon of
"intervention required"
Library Data:
operational state..........Automated Operational State
Intervention Required
functional state...........00
input stations.............1
output stations............1
input/output status........ALL input stations empty
ALL output stations full
machine type...............3494
sequence number............13256
number of cells............1882
Dwight E. Cook
Software Application Engineer III
Science Applications International Corporation
509 S. Boston Ave. Suite 220
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
Office (918) 732-7109
-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Dwight E
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:20 AM
To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
Subject: RE: 3494 on MVS vs AIX
On a 3494 attached to AIX what you can do is...
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qL
Now, if the I/O station has any tapes in it, (used to this would be an
"intervention required" situation but not any more at atldd.5.0.7.0.bin )
Anyway, if you have something in the I/O station, you will notice that the
message "All output stations empty" is NOT PRESENT. So you can do something
like...
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qL | grep 'ALL output stations empty' 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
echo tapes in output mode in IO station...
fi
change the echo to anything that works for you...
You can also do this to watch for "degraded" & "intervention" situations...
I just run a job hourly from AIX that does all this and pages me (well, the
oncall person) when it finds a problem...
Library Data:
operational state..........Automated Operational State
functional state...........00
input stations.............1
output stations............1
input/output status........ALL input stations empty
machine type...............3494
sequence number............13256
number of cells............1882
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Library Data:
operational state..........Automated Operational State
functional state...........00
input stations.............1
output stations............1
input/output status........ALL input stations empty
ALL output stations empty
machine type...............3494
sequence number............12293
number of cells............2336
<...>
Dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 on MVS vs AIX
When the 3494 I/O station is full of ejected tapes (with more to come),
the MVS console automatically gets a mesage "All convenience output
stations in library TRROBOT are full." Is there a way for either AIX or
a TSM server running on AIX to detect the condition so a email or page
could be sent to the operator. When running a checkout libvol of more
tapes than the i/o station holds on the tsm server running on aix, the
checkout just waits until the station has been cleared. I assume it
would timeout eventually.
AIX is v5 and TSM is 5.1.1.
David Ehresman
