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vmoprcmd and deactivated media servers

Created: 03 Sep 2009
John_Nardello's picture
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It would be nice if deactivating a media server wouldn't disable vmoprcmd from disabling the drive status for that server. Instead, I'd much prefer some tag on the output that indicates it's currently deactivated.

As an example, you deactivate a media server with jobs that are still running, knowing that in an hour or so the jobs should be finished and you can start your maintanance work. There isn't a way I can find though to check up on the media server from the CLI and see how many of its tape drives are still in use at any time after deactivating it. "vmoprcmd -devmon" edits deactivated media servers out of its listing, and "vmoprcmd -dp" shows no drives at all for the host.

Please modify vmoprcmd's functioning to just display a tag of some kind when showing a deactivated server's drives, and not just return nothing.