NetBackup Environment Minitoring Script

Have a look at OpsCenter.  

It is free (although there is a more advanced pay version) and is exactly what you are looking for.

It will allow monitoring of multiple masters from one GUI and has the ability to run fairly detailed reports.

OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics can do a lot of what you need, but I cannot imagine any script or tool that can do ALL of what you have listed, e.g.

• Java console Functionality 
• All physical library status  (Library Web  Console)
• Enterprise Vault - Disk space 
• Network Issues

Good luck!

hello mph999, Thanks for your response, We do have a Ops Center Analytics and it does its job. We are looking for a customize script to do these jobs only and send an email notification to a perticular Email ID. Please help me to get the Idea to begin with the scripting here in NBU

Thanks

Hello Marianne

Yes I do agree, below 4 things cannot be done via Script, But the rest of things?

• Java console Functionality 
• All physical library status  (Library Web  Console)
• Enterprise Vault - Disk space 
• Network Issues

Please help me on that. Although in my last reply I already stated the reason to not use OpsCenter Analytics here

OpsCenter can do the majority of this for you if you set it up correctly

You can add the user or users that can be e-mailed and then setup alerts and reports to go to just those specific people.

Nothing in NetBackup will check your library web gui for you but it will monitor all tape drives and alert you of any issues that way.

Network issue are only covered by the Master not being available .. not sure exactly what you want it to tell you about Java Consoles?

There is an EV Agent for OpsCenter but that is not the best way to monitor its free disk space - usually it is partitions that fill up so you just make new ones in advance and set then in rollover / ready mode to deal with that.

OpsCenter will do most of this for you but aftter that maybe you need something like openview for deeper monitoring across all of your servers?

Nothing in NetBackup will check your library web gui for you but it will monitor all tape drives and alert you of any issues that way   : That's also Fine, Need the Information about the problems in the Infra

Network issue are only covered by the Master not being available .. not sure exactly what you want it to tell you about Java Consoles? : Can be ignored

Looking for something like this

For Each Master & Media Server

I really don't understand the need for this :

If any of those processes stop, NBU will stop working in some way.  When faced with such an issue, one of the first things I do is check that the processes that should be running, are.

The script would need to be run every xx mins, so that puts a load on the system every time it runs (yes, there are systems out there where this would cause an issue) - perhaps better would be to have the script availbe to run if you have an issue, you could then run the script to confirm what processes are running.

If you realy want to script it, you'll need a list of processes that should be running (may differ slightly between systems depending on what features are used).

Then you just compare the processes found in bpps -x against your list - you could do it with grep quite easily, but not particularly efficient as you run bpps as many times as you have processes,

Persoanlly I'd run bpps once and stick the output into an array and then compare wach element agaist a list of what you want to check.

Solaris can certainly handle arrays well (I'd use associate arrays) but only certain shells can do ths ( /usr/dt/bin/dtksh ) - no idea if any shell on Linux can do associate arrays.  It could be done with normal arrays but would be a bit more messy I think.

Opscentre can monitor processes....or you might want to consider a third party product so its independant of netbackup. And another to monitor that server and so on..ahem.There are some free ones out there or at least very good value ones.

Perl is good for scripting arrays, hashes and so on, but no point in reinventing the wheel.

Jim