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DPeaco's avatar
DPeaco
Moderator
2 months ago

NBU Appliance FIPS Status via command line

Greetings,
Veritas 5340HA appliances - 5.3.0.1 - NetBackup version 10.3.0.1

Is there a way to get the FIPS status outside of the CLISH menu in the appliance?
I would also like to know if there's a way to query for a disk in the MSDP storage shelves that isn't in a normal status - read in failed disk of sorts here.
It would be awesome if this could be scripted. :-) 

Thanks in advance and welcome to the new look/feel of VOX.

  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    2 months ago

    Hi DPeaco 

    There should be a command you can run fipsstatus.sh to find this. It should reside in /opt/veritas/appliance/security/scripts/fipsstatus.sh - although I don't have ready access to a 5.3 appliance, it is certainly there in a 5.1.1 appliance.

    For the second question - there is a CLISH command to show the status of the drives. Have a look at the options under Monitor->Hardware - there should be a combination to show what you want - for instance "ShowHealth Appliance Disk" or "ShowHelath StorageShelf Disk". Not sure how to do this if you want to use the command line (the CLISH will simply be calling a script buried somewhere in the operating system - just a matter of finding it and figuring out what parameters to use if required). 

    Cheers

     

  • jnardello's avatar
    jnardello
    Moderator
    2 months ago

    You might also consider checking out the IT Analytics table "SDK_V_VTAP_DISK"  for disk statuses, having a regular report delivered might be more appealing than logging into individual Appliances. =) 

    Note that you have to be running one of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance or Veritas Flex Appliance policies against the box to populate the info, but seems like it'd be worth it. 

    • DPeaco's avatar
      DPeaco
      Moderator
      2 months ago

      Hello jnardello 

      I'd like to talk this over with you as that is a most interesting suggestion/possibility for us. :-) 

  • kiyan's avatar
    kiyan
    Level 6
    2 months ago

    Beside what david mentioned, for disk , I usually use the GUI, of the appliance, which gives an error if a disk or any other hardware is faulty (or about to be faulty).
    in Clish/GUI, you can enable hardware (software) smtp , to receive notification for such events.

     

     

  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    Level 6
    2 months ago

    Hi DPeaco 

    There should be a command you can run fipsstatus.sh to find this. It should reside in /opt/veritas/appliance/security/scripts/fipsstatus.sh - although I don't have ready access to a 5.3 appliance, it is certainly there in a 5.1.1 appliance.

    For the second question - there is a CLISH command to show the status of the drives. Have a look at the options under Monitor->Hardware - there should be a combination to show what you want - for instance "ShowHealth Appliance Disk" or "ShowHelath StorageShelf Disk". Not sure how to do this if you want to use the command line (the CLISH will simply be calling a script buried somewhere in the operating system - just a matter of finding it and figuring out what parameters to use if required). 

    Cheers