I might have written about that already some years(?) ago, but anyway:
I have a small shell-script to ask "amadmin config tape --days X" for the next tapes to put into the magazines. That script is run via cron and emails the local admin at the customer with the requested tapes. A bit ugly but it works. I want to improve this and do some comparison in the script: amtape config inventory vs. amadmin config tape because related to skipped runs or smaller runs (skipping some DLEs for example) one run uses N tapes and another one uses N-1 tapes. So the script might already tell me: slot 3: OK (=inserted tape usable) ... slot 4: tape007 out - tape013 in or so. maybe some of you already have such a script and we could share or learn from each other? like, you know, in an open source software project ;-)
