NetBackup Appliance send mail command line syntax

You can try normal OS 'mailx' command.

(I cannot answer your Opscentre question.)

Were you ever able to main the report from OpsCenter? if so then open a ticket with Symantec to get that fixed. If not you have never been able to mail the report from the appliance with it configured the way it comes from the factory. You have to go into Maintenance and then set up a cron job to mail you the report. We do that quite regularly especially when we have space issues.

One thing to keep in mind when you upgrade to 2.6.0.1 you may lose that function unit you re add it. since the 2.6.0.1 is an OS upgrade as well as a NetBackup upgrade.

This tech note outlines how sendmail is used on appliance which may help you.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&pmv=print&impressions=&viewlocale=&id=TECH188948

Of course if you have any Windows Media Server / Admin Console you could also use blat from one of those to run the report.

In OpsCenter there is the Media Utilisation report which includes assigned media (so used media) which can be filtered to reflect a period of 1 day - perhaps making a new report based on this template would give you what you need?

Thanks everyone for your input.

Andrew - I think you've pretty much hit my requirement when you say that I need to go into maintenance and use a cron job. This isn't something I had working before so I'm not looking to fix an issue but merely set this up from scratch.

Can you help me with the syntax - perhaps the command line you use?

eg is the follwing close?

#bpimagelist -A hoursago=24 > media_written_report.txt

#sendmail <username@domaonname.com> -a  media_written_report.txt

Cheers

K

Thanks Andrew

I'll try that when I next get a chance (today or tomorrow) and let you know how I get on

cheers

Hi Andrew

I think I'm still missing something.

Do I need to manually configure anything within the appliance to tell it where my SMTP server is?

perhaps in /etc/postfix/main.cf ?

I'm not getting any emails with the commands I'm trying - even though I think the commands are good. When I look in /var/log/mail.info I can see attempts to connect directly to the internet with these messages and not via our internal SMTP server. I've set the SMTP server info via the Clish but can't find any conf file that  can check to make sure the settings have been accepted.

cheers again

 

That was it - edited the main.cf to add the relay host 

all working ok now :o)

Sorry - but I have a quick follow up on this.

I feel this is more of a Linux question than NetBackup but I have created the script (with help from Andrew - thanks!), which works fine when I execute the script manually. Below is the script

#!/bin/bash

DATE=$(date +%m%d%y)

FILE="/usr/openv/netbackup/reports/media_written_$DATE.txt"

./bpimagelist -A -media -hoursago = 24 > $FILE

cd /usr/openv/netbackup/reports

cat $FILE|mailx -r put.your.sender.here@whatever.com -s "Media Written Report $DATE" recip.one@domain.com  recip.two@domain.com

This works fine if I just execute the script and the email is recieved with the media written details as the email body. However, when I put this into the crontab and schedule the script I only get an email with no text. I've also noticed that the media_written_$DATE.txt file is also empty. Is this a permissions thing that cron doesn't have the permissions to execute the bpimagelist command and hence the txt file is empty?

kind regards

KL

You need to put it all into a script file (perl maybe) and then call that from the crontab

It does other NBU things from there so it should be ok as long as the script has the correct rights

The other crontab entries should give an idea of the format