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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=983295615-11122002>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=983295615-11122002>Jason</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=983295615-11122002>-</SPAN>-</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Jason Ahrens, Hosting Analyst</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>TELUS IP
Solutions</FONT> <BR><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.telus.com/" target=_blank>http://www.telus.com</A></FONT> </P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Frater, Greg J
[mailto:gjfrater@bechtel.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 11, 2002
10:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net'<BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: [Nagios-users] nagios veritas netbackup plugin?<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><SPAN class=151522315-11122002><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 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 align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><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 color=#0000ff face=Arial 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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class=800245315-10122002><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 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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class=800245315-10122002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 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 color=#0000ff face=Arial 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 color=#0000ff face=Arial 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> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.telus.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.telus.com</A></FONT> </P>
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