Barcode script for tape lib

[Craig A. Sharp]

I am using a Surestore E 2x20 DLT8000 tape library.
The lib is able to read barcodes. I am looking for a script to read the barcode data and print it out to a file.
My plan is to have the data automatically sent to Informix. I can do the informix end but I have no clue on how to extract the barcode data from the library.

Thanks,

Craig A. Sharp
Roush Industries

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you have OmniBack II check out the uma utility (man uma).
The script would be very similar to this:
ROBOT=/dev/robot/c2t3d0 # robotics device
echo "stat" > /tmp/controlfile
/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl $ROBOT -barcode < /tmp/controlfile > /tmp/list

The output file /tmp/list should have the barcode as the fourth field of each output line.
I think that the uma utility is available from HP w/o purchasing OB2 (at least the man page hints at this.) If you can't get the uma utility you will probably have to write a c program to do a scsi inquiry.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You might also check out the 'mc' command though you would then have to install the autochanger driver and devices.
man 1m mc

[Philip P. Hartl]

execute the command

[Philip P. Hartl]

execute the command "omnimm -repository_barcode_scan . This will do a barcode scan and produce a report of all tapes in the exchanger.

[Craig A. Sharp]

Hi all,

Thank you for your replies. We do not use Omniback. We had some serious problems that prevented us from using that solution.

I will checkout the MC command and see if that will do what I need.

Please let me know if there are any other ideas not usind Omniback.

Thanks

Craig

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Ok Craig. I tried the mc command and here's what happened.
ROBOT=/dev/robot/c2t3d0 # SCSI pass-thru robotics device (set to your picker device)

mc -p $ROBOT -r S > /tmp/list.txt
The output looked like this
ST_slot_1 FULL 000107
ST_slot_2 EMPTY
ST_slot_3 FULL 000187
.
.
.
The 3rd field is the barcode. It appears that MC will dothe job.