Hello
Does someone know a command to get the media serial number ? (not barcode as that can be changed)
Have found this old tech note: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100027311.html
where it seem that netbackup stores the information in the EMM DB.
Have played aorund with nbemmcmd, but without luck so far.
Regards
Michael
It's one of the fields in the EMM_Media table.
If it doesn't appear in nbemmcmd -listmedia output then it's not a field you will get from any other command.
The only way to get it is to loook in the DB directly ...
nbdb_unload /my/output/dir
vi reload.sql
Search forward for INPUT INTO "EMM_MAIN"."EMM_Media"
You should see something like this
INPUT INTO "EMM_MAIN"."EMM_Media"
FROM '/netbackup/db/775.dat'
FORMAT TEXT
ESCAPE CHARACTER '\\'
BY ORDER("MediaKey","DriveKey","MediaGuid","MediaId","PartnerKey" <snip>
You can see the .dat file name for that table (it differs betwwen NBU releases) - the bottom line which I have <snipped> as it is long, shows the fields of the table in the correct order, so field 1 isMediaKey, field 2 is DriveKey and so on ...
The 64th field at the version of NBU I have
64 ,"SerialNumber" varchar(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
You could also search the reload.sql file for : CREATE TABLE "EMM_MAIN"."EMM_Media"
CREATE TABLE "EMM_MAIN"."EMM_Media" (
"MediaKey" unsigned int NOT NULL DEFAULT autoincrement CONSTRAINT "CKC_MEDIAKEY_EMM_MEDI" check("MediaKey
" >= 4000001)
,"DriveKey" unsigned int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"MediaGuid" binary(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT "NEWID"()
,"MediaId" varchar(32) NOT NULL
,"PartnerKey" unsigned int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"PartnerId" varchar(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
,"LegacyMediaType" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT -1
,"MediaTypeName" varchar(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
,"MediaGroupName" varchar(128) NOT NULL
,"DensityName" varchar(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
,"DensityCode" binary(8) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"VerificationFlag" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"AssignedAppType" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"MediaFlags" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
,"MediaTypeFlags" integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
<snip>
This gives a list of the fields in a easier to read format, but you still need to search to confirm the .dat file name for the table.
Thanks, that is something work out from.
Too bad I can't do a select of mediaid and serial number directly on the table in the database.
Ended up with using nbdb_load -t EMM_media to limit the output to the relevant table.
Then is just using a script language to pull out the wanted information from the dat file.
