Scratch tapes in robots command line

[Fabian_Schwarz]

I'm looking for any way to verify how much scratch tapes I have in robots.

I need a fast command.

Thanks

[Andy_Welburn]

available_media

Output broken down by volume pool & will show whether loaded in robot or not.

With a little work you could also look at vmquery.

[Marianne]

Try vmquery. For robot 0:

vmquery -rn 0 -bx |grep -i scratch

[Andy_Welburn]

Those b****y hidden options!

[Marianne]

Got it from a Symantec consultant some time ago... Gives more than -b and less than -w - just enough!

Would've been great if -rn could be used in conjunction with -p or -pn, but the command only accepts either or.

I've tried 'vmpool -bx -rn 0 -pn Scratch' but it comes back with command usage, showing ' | ' between the options....

The 'grep' will obviously only work on Unix server (unless some Unix tools are installed on the Win server...).

[Andy_Welburn]

options" ;)

Been fiddling around trying to cut out the wheat from the chaff with the "-w" but the darn header kept getting in the way (and the previous volume pool entry!), also looked at the -rn/-p or -pn combo to no avail...

[RiaanBadenhorst · Accepted solution]

You can use findstr on Windows :) Its similar to grep