We've added several checks to the TSM Operation hourly monitor report to check
for various tape/drive conditions. Some of them are:
- Search for TAPEALERT messages in the previous hour. Alert if N8950>0. Must
have SET TAPEALERTMSG ON.
select count(*) as N8950 from actlog where msgno in
(8948,8949,8950,8951) and date_time between '%s' and '%s'
- Search for the I/O error messages in the previous hour. Alert if NIOERRORS>0
select count(*) as NIOERRORS from actlog where msgno in (1401, 8943,
8381) and date_time between '%s' and '%s'
- Search for paths offline. I think the can'd report only does drives. Alert if
NPO>0
select count(*) as NPO from paths where online='NO'
Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie
Bassler
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
The Operational Reporter shows all drives online. That's because the drive did
not go offline. I had to manually take the drive, and
path, offline.
The error message is that the "volume ****** could not be mounted into drive
***". After the SE arrived, we found that the actual
problem was that the pump, for the vacuum that sucks the tape in, had gone out.
This is not the first time we've had a problem, and didn't know the tape drive
was inaccessible. Last time it was over a weekend.
I'll keep looking.
Thanks for all the input,
Debbie
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There isn't, but if you use the hourly monitor facility from TSM's Operational
Reporter, one of the statuses it looks for by default
is offline drives. Since hourly monitor reports can be emailed, the balance of
the task is easily left to the student.
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management
Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert
(CATE) AIX Office 262.521.5627
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of Debbie Bassler
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:32 AM
>To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>Subject: Log Containing Tape Drive Info
>
>Our TSM server, 5.1, is on an AIX OS, 4.3.3. Does anyone know of a log
>containing information about the tape drives? One of our drives has
>been inaccessible since 3:20 this morning. I'd like to write a script
>to page me when this happens, but, I don't know if there is a log
>available to pull the information from.
>
>Thanks,
>Debbie
>
