If you never delete your volhist, you can search it to track the number of
times the volume has been assigned to a storagepool. This won't track
usage as a TSM DBBackup, but if you're willing to be close but not exact,
you can use it.
If you want to track mounts, you need something external. A g
On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Coats, Jack wrote:
I would like to know how also. I have not found a way with DRM, or in
native TSM. This is because when a tape is made 'scratch', it looses
all the related information about the tape. ...
Indeed, trying to manage the tapes through automated means is
unch of an order of 100, like 80 percent, had
errors on the first use after labeling), before being disposed of.
-Original Message-
From: John C Dury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:30 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Monitoring lifecycle of tapes in a 3494
We have 2 3494 libraries, one local and one remote, and our auditors would
like us to monitor the lifecycle of the tapes in both. I've informed them
that, upon several errors, TSM will mark the tape as unavailable and stop
using it, but that isn't good enough for them. They want an automated
report
