Paul said that Servergraph has this functionality - According to our hardware guys, the 3494 library has some rudimentary mount statistics available.
I'm going to be looking into both of those options. Surely someone has already invented this wheel when trying to justify more tape drives - other than pointing to the smoke coming from the drives and suggesting that they are slightly overused.... -----Original Message----- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 Utilization Good question, never actually thought about it... I would think that the sum of the difference between mount & dismount times for each drive... OH THANKS..... now I won't be able to sleep until I code some select statement to do this :-( if I figure it out, I'll pass it along Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494 Utilization I saw this topic out on ADSM, and I could not locate any type of functional resolution ... What is everyone using to calculate the "wall time" of your tape drive utilization?