nagios veritas netbackup plugin?

[Jason Ahrens]

That brings up an important point. I forgot to mention that my scripts are
for Unix based systems (read be inference?). As far as I've been able to
tell, not too many people run NetBackup with 2000/NT as servers so I
sometimes forget to mention.
 
Jason

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frater, Greg J [mailto:gjfrater at bechtel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:30 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios veritas netbackup plugin?


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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TELUS IP Solutions 
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