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mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

 

Firstly, many thanks to Marianne for her input into the below details.
 
The purpose of this post is to provide a single location for info to be able to set up logs.
The details below are just about the shortest version I can make, that still contains detail/ explanation.
 
Any NetBackup Engineer should be able to set up logs with the minimum of information, all that 'should be required' for example.
 
"Please set bptm/ bpbrm on windows media xxx at verbose 5/ general 2 and bpdbm on unix master at versbose 5"
"Please set VX logs at 6 and 6 for OID 111/ 143/ 116/ 117"
 
The engineer should now how to set up these logs, and check that they are logging.
 
The details below will allow this to be done.
 
 
 
Setting up logs in NetBackup
 
 
For a given issue, it may be necessary to gather multiple logs.  This MUST cover the time the issue happens.
If an additional log is required, that has to be created, then ALL the logs must be supplied again.
 
There are two types of logs in NetBackup.  Legacy logs and VX logs.
 
 
1) Creating Legacy Logs
2) Setting Verbose Level for Legacy Logs
3) Collecting Legacy Logs
4) Creating VX Logs and setting the log level
5) Collecting VX logs
6) Volmgr Logs
 
 
1) Creating Legacy Logs
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These are created in either 
 
Unix
/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/
/usr/openv/volmgr/debug/
 
Windows
<install path>\veritas\netbackup\logs
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug
 
 
For example to create bptm log, simply create a directory called the <process> name.
 
mkdir /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm
 
A newly created log will not log anything /detect a change of verbose level until the process is restarted.  For logs such as bptm, this will be when the next backup runs.  Other logs such as bprm and bpdm may require a restart of the NBU services.  I say 'may', if the process starts a child process, then this would write to a newly created log or pick up a verbose level change.
 
 
2) Setting Verbose Level for Legacy Logs
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There are two ways this can be done :
 
(Unix) 
 
To increase the verbose level of all logs (except vault)
Add the entry VERBOSE = <level> into /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf.  <level> is a value between 0 and 5, with 5 being the highest.
 
 
(Windows)
 
On the server you are gathering the logs from, run the BAR GUI
From the File menu, select Client Properties and in the pop-up window, goto the Troubleshooting tab.
Set General to 2 and Verbose to 5
 
 
3) Collecting Legacy Logs
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The log file is simply found in the <process> name directory.  There is one log per day.
 
The name of the log file will be log.<date>
 
If you are sending multiple log files in, they will all have the same name.  Please therefore rename the log files to :
 
<process>.log.<date>
 
 
4) Creating VX Logs and setting the log level
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These are more complex, and have to be set with specific commands.  NOTE: Some of these logs, for example, 'mds' do NOT create a log file.  Instead the lines are entered in to other log files.  In the case of mds (143), it logs into EMM (111).
 
 
The vxlogs cover various processes, for example, nbemm, nbrb, nbjm, nbrb, mds
 
 
To set these up on either Unix or Windows, use this command :
 
vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o <oid> -s DebugLevel=<1-6> -s DiagnosticLevel=<1-6>
 
For example, to set the EMM and MDS logs to levels 6 and 6 use
 
vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 111 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 143 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
 
 
To confirm the log level has been set, simply look in the nblog.conf file, which is located in the netbackup diorectory.
(NOTE: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY)
 
 
5) Collecting VX Logs
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To collect the vx logs, use the nbcplogs command.  This copies the raw logs, which is the preference of Technical Support.
 
NOTE:  The destination directory MUST be empty.
 
 
nbcplogs --no-nbsu -d 2hrs --logs nbemm,nbjm /tmp/logs   (Ex.  Coleect the past 2 hrs of logs, RELATIVE, to when the command is run )
  
nbcplogs --no-nbsu -s 07/11/2012-10:17:58 -e 07/11/2012-12:17:58 --logs nbjm,nbpem /tmp/logs (Collect the logs between two times -s <start> -e <end>  )
 
In these examples, the nbpem and nbjm logs would be copied to /tmp/logs
 
 
For details of using vxlogview please see TN:  http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH75805
 
 
6) Volmgr Debug Logs
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These are very similar to legacy logs, the difference being the location and the verbose setting.
There is no value for verbose level, simply it is turned up by adding the work VERBOSE to a line in the vm.conf file.
 
To turn on Media Manager logging:
 
UNIX:
 
Add VERBOSE to the /usr/openv/volmgr/vm.conf file.  If this file does not exist, just create it.
If necessary, create the directory /usr/openv/volmgr/debug
 
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/acssi
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/acsd
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/robots
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/daemon
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/ltid
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/oprd
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/reqlib
mkdir /usr/openv/volmgr/debug/tpcommand
 
The following empty files increase the details logged further
 
touch /usr/openv/volmgr/DRIVE_DEBUG
touch /usr/openv/volmgr/ROBOT_DEBUG 
touch /usr/openv/volmgr/AVRD_DEBUG 
touch /usr/openv/volmgr/SSO_DEBUG 
 
 
Restart ltid :
 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/stopltid
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/ltid -v
 
 
Windows:
 
Add VERBOSE to the <install path>\veritas\volmgr\vm.conf file.  If this file does not exist, just create it.
If necessary, create the directory /usr/openv/volmgr/debug
 
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/acsssi
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/acsd
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/robots
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/daemon
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/ltid
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug/oprd
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\reqlib
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\debug\tpcommand
 
Create the following empty files to increase the details logged further
Ensure that windows does not craete a 'suffix', for example .txt
 
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\DRIVE_DEBUG
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\ROBOT_DEBUG 
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\AVRD_DEBUG 
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\SSO_DEBUG 
 
 
Restart ltid :
 
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\bin/stopltid
<install path>\veritas\volmgr\bin/ltid -v
 
NOTE:
 
The 'OIDs' for the Unified /VX logs can be determined by looking in the nblog.conf file in the /usr/openv/netbackup directory.  Be careful not to edit the file.
 
The default logs levels for the Unified /VX log levels can be found in the nblog.conf.  These are set as follows:
 
NetBackup Server : Default.DiagnosticLevel=6 / Default.DebugLevel=1
NetBackup Appliance : Default.DiagnosticLevel=6 / Default.DebugLevel=5
 
 
Regards,
 
Martin
Comments
TuxanForLife
Level 3

Great summary - MPH.
For the legacy logs in section 4, would you add a sentence on how to determine the ProdID and OrgID?

Also, can you include standard defaults for log levels - 0 for Unified and 1-DebugLevel/6-DiagnosticLevel for legacy, I think.  Maybe in one the quotes at the top or somewhere.
I don't understand the difference between debug and diag, but at least they're set correctly so I don't get waste CPU/IO cycles and diskspace on detail that I won't use for normal operations.
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For the readers, I did this to see my current legacy logging levels :

master# cd /usr/openv/logs/ ; for ORIGINATOR in `ls -1d n* b*`; do vxlogcfg --list -p NB -o ${ORIGINATOR} | egrep "Configuration|LogDirectory|Level"; done
master#  vxlogcfg -a -o 111 -p 51216 -s DebugLevel=1    (to reset Debug to default for nbemm)
 
- Adam D

jason_qb
Level 3
study Looking for a long time
Ankit_Maheshwar
Level 5

Thanks Martin!! 

Very useful data..

 

 

Ankit Maheshwari

 

mnblake
Level 2
Partner

Is there any log file that shows when a client was added to a policy and by whom it was added?

TG_syd
Level 2
Partner Employee Accredited

Is there a difference between setting up logging levels from bp.conf and GUI ?

mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

If you turn on 'auditing' this would log changes to the policies.  It would only tell you 'who' if used with NBAC.

 

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