-----Fred Johanson wrote: ----- >The control panel on our TS3500 reports library full with 1408 >volumes. 4 are cleaning cartridges, so there should be 1404 volumes >in TSM. But > >Select count(volume_name) from libvolumes > >Returns 1381, leaving 23 unaccounted for. The Web gui shows no >unassigned volumes, so where are the missing volumes? We asked our >CE if there was anything he knew that could account for this. He >said no. We asked if there was any way we could dump the inventory >to EXCEL or something so we could compare it with the libvolumes >output. He said no.
My site has a 3494, but we will have to work with a 3584 or TS3500 at our next disaster recovery test. One of the Web sites I found while researching 3584 behavior indicates that a Unix command like: IBMtapeutil -f /dev/IBMchanger0 inventory will return a human-readable list of volumes with groups of lines like: Slot Address 4096 Slot State ..................... Normal ASC/ASCQ ....................... 0000 Media Present .................. Yes Robot Access Allowed ........... Yes Source Element Address ......... 4096 Media Inverted ................. No Volume Tag ..................... ABA920L1 'IBMtapeutil' is the name of the mainframe Linux version of the utility. I think it is called 'tapeutil' on some of the other platforms for which 3584 device drivers are available.
