scripts repository

2000-12-08 Thread Kai G Hintze
Is there a scripts repository anywhere where we can share our code and browse for what other people have done? Is anyone else interested in such a beast? If there isn't one, and people are interested I'll volunteer to start it. If there is one then I have some needs, and some hacks that help me th

checking media status

2000-12-08 Thread Kai G Hintze
Greetings all! Summary: Does anyone have a script to audit contents of all our tapes, or other suggestion on how to verify what they actually contain? Discussion: As I have mentioned before, we have had serious, ongoing problems with our DLT drives. We think we may have them resolved, finally. A

Which table shows mounts

2001-01-11 Thread Kai G Hintze
ADSM 3.1.2 on aix 4.1.5 Which table holds mount information? I have looked and looked but I just can't see it. I see drive information, but it doesn't say whether the drive has a tape mounted. I guess I could query procedures and sessions and extract the info from them, but that is ugly It wo

where is mtlib?

2001-01-11 Thread Kai G Hintze
aix 4.1.5 and ADSM 3.1.2 controlling a STK9710 Timberwolf and aix 4.3.0.0 and ADSM 3.1.2 controlling a pair of IBM 3446 StorSmart's. I see regular references to a utility called mtlib, but I don't see it on my systems. Does it come with later TSM, or is there a package I need to install? Thanks,

Cost of select media vs volumes

2001-01-19 Thread Kai G Hintze
Greetings, Oh Massed Experience and Intellect! Which costs more, select from media or select from volumes? Or are they similar enough to flip a coin? I am trying to write a script in which I need to know which storage pool a given tape belongs to. Looking at the list of columns, it looks like I c

FW: RMAN ADSM Errors

2001-01-26 Thread Kai G Hintze
I'm a programmer/unix admin that got drafted as interm ADSM administrator when our ADSM admin left. I'm in over my head and would really appreciate some help. One one the last things my predecessor did before she left was to set up ADSM to work with RMAN. (Environment is client on Sun, server on A

dsmadmc query in loop hangs

2001-01-26 Thread Kai G Hintze
I have a script that loops through a list and issues some queries. It runs fine for a while, then hangs. Anyone willing to help me figure out why? Environment is ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporati

Re: RMAN ADSM Errors

2001-01-30 Thread Kai G Hintze
adsmserv:/usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/dsmserv.opt already has the line COMMTimeout 7200 do you think I should boost it even higher? That should already be 2 hours! What would be the downside of having a huge COMMTIMEOUT? - Kai. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:53:20 -0800, Thiha Than <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied

Controlling format=detail layout

2000-08-23 Thread Kai G Hintze
How do I force a query output to a file to be one item per line? I'm sorry to repeat a question, because I thought I remembered seeing the answer to this question a week or two ago. But I can't find it in my notes. Often when I run a query f=d I get different layouts if I run it interactively or