OMNILISTFREEDEVS 1.10 – get list of free devices

Update: new version 1.10 does include a fix for multi-host and multipath configurations. In addition, the languages FRA, CHS and JPN are now supported (DP 8.0, 8.01 and 8.10).

To get a list of free Data Protector devices can be a challenge, especially in larger environments. Of course, with the command omnidbutil -show_locked_devs -all you can list all locked devices (media, etc.). And, with the command omnidownload -list_devices -detail you get a list of all configured devices in Data Protector. However, matching and checking for free devices is a manual task.

Now, with the program omnilistfreedevs, you will get a list of free devices. The software offers different options, i.e it is possible to list SCSI devices only or to skip the listing of devices from filelibraries. With the search parameter you are even more flexible. For further automation you can configure a plain list of free devices.

The script must run on the cell server and is available for Windows and Linux, HP-UX will follow. OMNILISTFREEDEVS combines the output of the commands omnidbutil and omnidownload and has more options.

Options / Help:

• --nofile, -nf – Will ignore devices from type “Filelibrary”.
• --nonul, -nn – Will ignore devices from type “Standalone” and configured as “Nul” devices.
• --noscsi, -ns – Will ignore devices from type “SCSI-II”.
• --nob2d, -nb – Will ignore devices from type “BackupToDisk”.
• --nojuke, -nj – Will ignore devices from type “Jukebox”.
• --onlyscsi, -os – Will display devices from type “SCSI-II” only.
• --search, -s – Will display devices matching the search pattern.
• --noheader, -nh – Header information is surpressed.
• --debug, -d – debug mode, output is written to file: omnilistfreedevsdebug.log.
• --exitcodes, -e – prints out the exit codes used in script.
• --version, -v – displays the script version.
• --help, -h – prints this help.

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I look forward to further suggestions and hope you will enjoy the tool.