storage tape show-errors
Display tape drive errors
Availability: This command is available to cluster administrators at the admin privilege level.
Description
The storage tape show-errors command displays error information about tape drives attached to the cluster. By default, this command displays the following information about all tape drives:
- Node to which the tape drive is attached
- Device ID of the tape drive
- Type of device(tape drive)
- Description of the tape drive
- Alias name of the tape drive
- Tape drive errors
Parameters
- { [-fields <fieldname>, ...]
- If you specify the -fields <fieldname>, ... parameter, the command output also includes the specified field or fields. You can use '-fields ?' to display the fields to specify.
- | [-instance ]}
- If you specify the -instance parameter, the command displays detailed information about all fields.
- [-node {<nodename>|local}] - Node
- Displays detailed information about tape drives on the specified node.
- [-device-id <text>] - Device ID
- Selects the tape drive with the specified device ID.
- [-device-type <text>] - Device Type
- Selects the devices with the specified type of tape drive.
- [-description <text>] - Description
- Selects the tape drives with the specified description.
- [-alias-name <text>] - Alias Name
- Selects the tape drive with the specified alias name.
- [-wwnn <text>] - World Wide Node Name
- Selects the tape drives with the specified World Wide Node Name.
- [-wwpn <text>] - World Wide Port Name
- Selects the tape drive with the specified World Wide Port Name.
- [-serial-number <text>] - Serial Number
- Selects the tape drive with the specified serial number.
- [-error <text>] - Tape Drive Error Description
- Selects the tape drives with the specified error string.
- [-initiator <text>] - Initiator Port
- Selects the tape drives with the specified initiator port.
Examples
The following example shows error information for all tape drives attached to cluster1.
cluster1::> storage tape show-errors
Node: node1
Device ID: 0d.125
Device Type: tape drive
Description: Hewlett-Packard LTO-5
Alias: st0
Errors: hardware error; repair or replace tape drive
Node: node1
Device ID: 2d.0
Device Type: tape drive
Description: IBM LTO-6 ULT3580
Alias: st2
Errors: -
The following example shows error information for tape drive sw4:2.126L1 attached to the node, node1.
cluster1::> storage tape show-errors -device-id sw4:2.126L1 -node node1
Node: node1
Device ID: sw4:2.126L1
Device Type: tape drive
Description: Hewlett-Packard LTO-3
Alias: st3
Errors: -
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