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<DIV><SPAN class=151522315-11122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We use
Veritas BackupExec which adds an object in the perfmon. Maybe you
can use the nsclient and look at values from that
object.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jason Ahrens
[mailto:Jason.Ahrens@TELUS.COM]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 10, 2002
8:08 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net'<BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: [Nagios-users] nagios veritas netbackup plugin?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=800245315-10122002><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=605103214-10122002>> Is there anything written to monitor Veritas
NetBackup? Thanks upfront.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=800245315-10122002>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=800245315-10122002>Couple media pool monitoring together with MRTG and
you get a lovely media usage trend graphs.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=800245315-10122002>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.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=800245315-10122002>Jason</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jason Ahrens,
Hosting Analyst</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>TELUS IP Solutions</FONT>
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