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Alex_Zn
Level 6
13 years ago

NetBackup health check

Hi!

The question about performing health check of NetBackup 7.1 infrastructure. I search for tools and methodology. The tools should gather information for NBU infrastructure logs, and than give reports about where problems is and maybe some recommendations. It is better if this kind o f tools may analyze not only NBU software but hardware, tape libraries and storage subsystems, but this features is optional.

Methodology is the kind of recommendation plan, where to look and what to check. For example: look at VM policies and find where number of simultaneous backups of datastores more than 4.

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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    13 years ago

    I dont know to a specific tool to do all of this - it is something that comes with experience and working through all of the guides and best practice guides.

    Many contributors on here are Symantec Partners who offer a service to carry out health checks for customers to do just what you are asking - so are probably happy that there are too many variables for a single tool to give you exactly what you are looking for.

    Marianne did provide a spread sheet to assist in your own health check here:

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-health-inspection-checklist-and-report

    Hope this helps
     

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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    I dont know to a specific tool to do all of this - it is something that comes with experience and working through all of the guides and best practice guides.

    Many contributors on here are Symantec Partners who offer a service to carry out health checks for customers to do just what you are asking - so are probably happy that there are too many variables for a single tool to give you exactly what you are looking for.

    Marianne did provide a spread sheet to assist in your own health check here:

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-health-inspection-checklist-and-report

    Hope this helps
     

  • Mick_Scott's avatar
    Mick_Scott
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    You could try NBSU it will do the information gathering but not the analysis. Includes hardware and OS info

    its under netbackup/support/bin/nbsu

    As Mark says "it is something that comes with experience and working through all of the guides and best practice guides"

    and as Mark says talk to a local Symantec Partner about a healthcheck.

  • dgw's avatar
    dgw
    13 years ago

    I think it would be to difficult to write a comprehensive health check tool, however, you could script your own tailord to your backup domain.

     

    examples...

    bperror -problems [options]

    bpps -a         - NBU and PBX running on NBU server?

    cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version    - is this the expected version?

    netstat -a | egrep [bprd|vnet|bpdbm|etc]    - are the NBU processes LISTENing?

    bpminlicense -list_keys -verbose | grep expired          - expired licenses are no good

    bptestnetconn  - test NBU server to NBU server service connections

    nbdb_ping   - test EMM DB connectivity

    nbemmcmd [-listhosts | -listmedia]

    nbdna - test NBU server to all client connectivity

    bptestbpcd - best test individual NBU server to client connectivity

    NBCC - check and remediate media server & media issues

    nbrbutil [options]

    IRMA - intelligent resource manager analyzer - for NBU resource allocation issues and configuration

    nbdevquery [-liststs | -listdp | -listdv]   - check if NBU OST objects still exist

    bpdbm -consistency [0..2]       - check for zero length files and coorsponding .f files in imagesDB

    ls -ld /usr/openv   -Check the NBU paths/links
    ls -ld /usr/openv/db   -Check the NBU paths/links
    ls -ld /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images   -Check the NBU paths/links

    du -ks   -disk full?

    ls -l /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf      - any recent changes?

    ls -l /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/*    - any recent changes?

    #if master

       ipcs -q         #do 55051 and 55151 keys exist?

    #done

    nbstlutil stlilist -image_incomplete -U | grep Image | wc -l             - SLP duplication backlog?

    nbstlutil list -U        - got incomplete SLP images?

     

    There are so many other consideration, too many open sockets, cpu or memory bound NBU server, imagesDB have size,  env LANG=C, ulimit unlimited for root,  search for core files, troll thru system log for errors,  vmoprcmd -d, which one of these is right for you?

    Be careful with these commands, test them individually and only use what you need.  Sorry this was written for unix, this was written for you to only get an idea of some of the things you can check.

    IMHO nbsu is just a dump of your setup, not a checker, someone would have to go thru output to glean out problems.

    Some commands only live at certain versions of NBU, query NBU support and commands guide for details.

    hope that helps