backup email notifcation consolidator

[Jim Avery]

On 13 April 2011 00:41, Matthew Nickerson <mnickerson at silcon.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
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> I’m looking for an add-on, and hoping someone has made it, that can
> consolidate backup email reports.  We have several clients, running multiple
> version of backup exec, some with NTbackup, and some with Jungle Disc.  I’d
> like to get all these email reports consolidated into a single report that
> shows if a backup ran when it was supposed to run, and if the job was
> successful.
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> Alternatively, if Nagios can monitor an inbox and parse the emails for
> failure messages and generate a warning, that would work too.
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> Right now the problem is that I get about 60 reports daily, which clutters
> up the inbox.


I wouldn't know about Jungle Disc, but I can tell you that Backup Exec
can (and probably should) be configured to send an SNMP trap showing
backup status.  I would install and configure snmptt to receive these
traps and send passive check results to Nagios.  Nagios will then only
email you for those backups that have failed not those that have
succeeded.  Note you should also use freshness checking in the Nagios
passive service check config to alert if no check result at all has
been received for a given period.

I've not tried it myself, but for log file consolidation, I believe
Splunk is the recommended tool.

http://www.nagios.org/products/enterprisesolutions/splunk/

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