Monitoring Tape Drive Status With Mediacom - HP NonStop NS-series Operation Manual

Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery

Monitoring Tape Drive Status With MEDIACOM

The MEDIACOM command STATUS TAPEDRIVE displays the current status of a tape
drive. Among other things, this command tells you whether a tape is mounted on the
drive, the name of the DEFINE associated with the tape, and which volume catalog
and pool owns it.
Note. Manual unloading of a tape is not detected by a tape drive, so information from STATUS
TAPEDRIVE can be out of date. For example, STATUS TAPEDRIVE could report that a drive
currently has a tape mounted when the tape was removed from the drive by the operator
before the command executed.
To check the status of all tape drives on your system with MEDIACOM:
> MEDIACOM STATUS TAPEDRIVE
A listing similar to this one is sent to your home terminal:
MEDIACOM - T6028D42 (18DEC98)
Creating default server.
Tape Drive
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$XTAPE
$TAPE0
2 tape drives returned.
The DSM/Tape Catalog Operator Interface (MEDIACOM) Manual explains the fields in
this output.
Example
To obtain status information about the tape drive $TAPE0 by using MEDIACOM:
> MEDIACOM STATUS TAPEDRIVE $TAPE0
A listing such as this one is sent to your home terminal:
MEDIACOM - T6028D42 (18DEC98)
Tape Drive Status
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$TAPE0
1 tape drive returned.
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Drive Tape Tape
Status Name Status
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DOWN
FREE
Drive Tape Tape
Name Status
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FREE
Monitoring Tape Drive Status With MEDIACOM
Label Open
Type Mode
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Label Open
Type Mode
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Process Name
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