Absolutely. I've been using a technique for years that has worked well.
Below, find a job I use on one system. It is streamed by the backup job to
start at 11:00am the next day. Basically, it does a showdev to a file,
parses the output and if tapes are not loaded it
- does several tell commands to various users including the console
- uses Telamon's mail program to send a message to the Help Desk
- streams itself to run again in 10 minutes
Note that the actual "tell" commands have embedded control codes to switch
to blinking inverse video (really gets your attention). Also, the "IF
MOUNTED = 0" can be adjusted for multiple tape drives. For example, one
system has 5 drives, so the line is changed to "IF MOUNTED < 5".
<GENE: JPB,MGR.SYSADMIN,PUB> FRI, MAR 23, 2001 10:50 AM </SYSADMIN/PUB>
[1]:type ddswarn.jobs.sys
!JOB DDSWARN,OPERATOR.SYS;HIPRI
!FILE TAPEDEV;MSG
!SHOWDEV TAPE > *TAPEDEV
!SETVAR MOUNTED,0
!WHILE (FINFO('TAPEDEV','EOF')) > 0 DO
! INPUT MYVAR < TAPEDEV
! IF POS('(Nolabel)',MYVAR) > 0
! SETVAR MOUNTED,MOUNTED+1
! ENDIF
!ENDWHILE
!PURGE TAPEDEV,TEMP > $NULL
!DELETEVAR MYVAR
!RESET TAPEDEV
!IF MOUNTED = 0
! TELL MGR.SYSADMIN;**********************************************
! TELL MGR.SYSADMIN;(gene) MAKE SURE THE BACKUP DDS TAPE IS LOADED
! TELL MGR.SYSADMIN;**********************************************
! TELL operator.sys;**********************************************
! TELL operator.sys;(gene) MAKE SURE THE BACKUP DDS TAPE IS LOADED
! TELL operator.sys;**********************************************
! tellop **********************************************
! tellop (gene) MAKE SURE THE BACKUP DDS TAPE IS LOADED
! tellop **********************************************
! STREAM DDSWARN.JOBS.SYS;IN=,,10
! setvar pcmailserver,"HERMES"
! pcbpmail.pub.system [log in to unmask],,"Change Tapes",tchg
!ENDIF
!SET STDLIST=DELETE
!EOJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hula [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Automatic Verification of Tape State
>
>
> Well, last night it happened again. The system backup (STORE) is
> automatically scheduled every night (M-F), but someone (me)
> has to put in a
> tape sometime during the day for the backup that night. And
> most of the
> time, I do just that. But, I was focused elsewhere and
> forgot. That means
> that the backup job tied up all the files and sat there hung,
> waiting for
> the tape that never arrived. Which means that early this
> morning, a user was
> unable to logon and enter an invoice and print required bar
> code labels for
> a shipment that went out early this morning. That also meant that the
> nightly update didn't run (not a huge problem once in a
> while) and reports
> for users weren't printed and ready this morning. Not a good morning.
>
> What I'm wondering is this. Short of purchasing the version
> of STORE that
> backs up while the system is being used, is there some way,
> in a job, to
> test to see if a tape is online or not and based on that test, decide
> whether to run the job or not?
>
> Another option, I guess, would be to make the system backup a manual
> operation that is performed when I put the tape in. Any other
> options? TIA
>
> Tom Hula
> Victor S. Barnes Company
>
>
>
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