TapeAlert.org » TapeAlert Software Products http://www.tapealert.org Tape drive, library, and autochanger monitoring, specifications, and diagnostics Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What does a TapeAlert report look like? http://www.tapealert.org/archives/88 http://www.tapealert.org/archives/88#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:59:39 +0000 admin http://www.tapealert.org/?p=88 This is what the SANtools software returns as it polls tape drives & autochangers

If you invoke SMARTMON-UX with the -X option, it will poll tapes at  the specified polling periods and produce a message such as:

       \\.\TAPE0 polled at Sun Aug 18 23:19:21 2002 Status:Passed

 

If there was a problem, you might see:

       \\.\TAPE0 polled at Sun Aug 18 23:26:49 2002 Status:Not Data Grade – The cartridge is not data grade. Data written to it will be at risk.

 

Note that it is possible that in the event of a TapeAlert, you will get more than one message per polling cycle.

The information is used by permisson from SANtools.  The full page is at: http://www.santools.com/smart/unix/manual/tapealertviewer.htm

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