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ziro's avatar
ziro
Level 4
9 years ago

change log folder of bptm messages from /var/log/messages to different

Hello, I would like to change log directory/file from /var/log/messages to different. There are some bptm logs like these below, which I need to write somewehre else, not in to /var/log/message...
7.5
Backup and Recovery
Error messages
Linux
NetBackup
  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    9 years ago

    You need to look at your systems syslog facility. There is no configurable options in Netbackup.

    Some hints:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles#System_Logging_Daemon_.28syslogd.29

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog

    Personally those kind of errors should be acted upon, and should not appear too often in the syslog.

    TapeAlert Code: 0x0f, Type: Warning, Flag: MIC FAILURE, from drive IBMEQ2_F1_R02 (index 3), Media Id X00676
    TapeAlert Code: 0x12, Type: Warning, Flag: DIRECTORY CORRUPTED ON LOAD, from drive IBMEQ2_F1_R02 (index 3), Media Id X00676
     TapeAlert Code: 0x33, Type: Warning, Flag: DIRECTORY INVALID ON UNLOAD, from drive IBMEQ2_F1_R02 (index 3), Media Id X00676

    Please suspned media X00676. bpmedia -suspned -m X00676

     

mph999's avatar
mph999
Level 6
9 years ago

OK, fair point regarding the reason - I used to get woken up myslef, fairly regularly for 'recoverable memory errors' on HP-UX.

However, TAPE_ALERTS are 'real' errors (apart from perhaps the cleaning warnings), though they don't always indicate a backup failure, but sometimes they do.

Is there really no way to tell the monitoring software 'what' to report on, seems very poor if not.