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<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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<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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<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>
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