Detecting Windows Backups?

[Matt White]

Hi Kevin,

What do you use for backups?

I just setup backup exec to send SNMP traps to my monitoring server. The processed trap then interfaces with my Opsview install to update a check.

You should be able to do something similar so that when the "Job Started" trap is received the state changes on a dependant check and stops then when a JobSuccess, JobCompleteExceptions, JobFailured, JobCancelled trap is received the state turns back to OK and you can continue monitoring.

I don't know about other backup softwares however this could be helpful,

The other option would be to have a check to see if the ntbackup/relevant .exe file is running using the NSClient agent and then if it is change state this way? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscription at kkeane.com] 
Sent: 12 October 2010 17:11
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Detecting Windows Backups?

Thank you very much! I'm really more interested in keying off the actual backup, rather than a specific time. The reason is that I may not always have control over when the backup window occurs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Yates [mailto:madlists at teaparty.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:05 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Detecting Windows Backups?

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

> Check/notification schedules, but if you find a way to drop a host 
> into maintenance mode programmatically, post back! I have wanted to 
> know how to do this. I haven't looked in to it much, but I assume one 
> could do it with the cgi's?

i have a tiny piece of perl which produces a scheduled downtime for a defined service on a defined host from x minutes in the future to y minutes in the future.  you run it with the relevant arguments and feed the output straight to your command file, which in my case is /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd .

it works very nicely out of cron, i use to automatically schedule 2-300 downtime windows a week.  hacking it to schedule host downtime instead would be trivial; sorry if that's not what you meant by "drop a host into maintenance mode programmatically".

if that might be of interest to anyone let me know and i'll put it up somewhere.  it's not very complex!


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   Tom Yates  -  http://www.teaparty.net

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