nagios veritas netbackup plugin?

[Frater, Greg J]

We use Veritas BackupExec which adds an object in the perfmon.  Maybe
you can use the nsclient and look at values from that object.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [mailto:Jason.Ahrens at TELUS.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:08 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios veritas netbackup plugin?


> Is there anything written to monitor Veritas NetBackup?  Thanks
upfront.
 
Not natively, you have to write it yourself AFAIK. I spent a few weeks
developing plugins for use with Veritas NetBackup (3.4.1) with Perl.
It's not all that difficult. I have a suite of tools that monitors drive
status, pending requests, robot status, CAP/inport slots full,
media-in-pool monitoring (most useful for Scratch). Maybe others I don't
recall off the top of my head.
 
Couple media pool monitoring together with MRTG and you get a lovely
media usage trend graphs.
 
The hardest part was monitoring Backup exit status. The easiest way to
do that would be through BPEND_NOTIFY scripts and passive checking,
depending how much information you want. My original solution of active
backup status checking was too CPU intensive on the NetBackup system.
Though it's possible to do. My current my solution (which may not easily
portable) involves a customized BPEND_NOTIFY script, interfacing with
bpdbjobs, and transferring a file occasionally from the NetBackup system
to the Nagios system.)
 
Jason
 

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