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JimmyB2's avatar
JimmyB2
Level 4
3 years ago

Netbackup appliance remote scripts execution for monitoring

Hi there, my question is if it is feasible to remotely monitor Netbackup appliance. The thing is that we need to remotely execute e.g. command ''bpdbjobs -summary'' on the Netbackup appliance from ...
  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    3 years ago

    Hi JimmyB2 

    Here's an example of what someone else wrote to extract audit logs from NetBackup (obviously change the master server name, user etc as required) - this was run from a Linux host (jq is a json processor/formatter)

    First get and store the auth token:

    token=`curl -k -X POST https://nbmaster:1556/netbackup/login -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"domainType":"", "domainName":"", "userName":"root", "password":"XXXXXXXX"}' | jq --raw-output '.token'`

    Then use the token to get the audit logs:

    curl -k -X GET https://nbmaster:1556/netbackup/security/auditlogs -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "authorization:$token" | jq .

    David

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davidmoline
Level 6
3 years ago

Hi JimmyB2 

If all you need to run are NetBackup commands then it is feasible. You should be able to do this after you create NetBackupCLI user (Main -> Manage -> NetBackupCLI

This will allow you to run NetBackup commands. To run remotely you will need to use the sudo command and the full path to the binary (eg. ssh cli_user@appliance sudo /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbjobs -summary).

To provide passwordless access to this user will require you to create an authorized_keys file in a folder /var/sshkeys/cli_user the folder will need to match the username. The authorized_keys files will need to be owned by the cli_user (with only rw permission for the user). 

Otherwise - have a look at the AMS capability to remotely monitor a number of appliances from a central location. This can be setup on a virtual appliance and a free license key is provided for this purpose. 

Cheers
David