NBPEM is behaving abnormally

[ajiwww]

Hello All,

Noticed in last couple of days that policy managment is behaving abnormally. Lots of policy Storage units have gone to "any". lots of policy types are changed from oracle to standard, or windows to SQL, etc etc..vice versa.

Any idea what is happening and which logs to review. It happend twice already and we have reverted the changes manually

Below are details of master server;

AIX memcf-master 3 5 00C85B0F4C00

NetBackup-AIX5 6.5.6

[Stumpr2]

You may want to look at my scripts to monitor the policies. it is written for UNIX and you can adjust it as needed for your site. One nice feature is that it creates a tarball of the policies so you can extract the policy as it existed in the last 30 days. 

Here is a link to the one I posted in this forum:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/downloads/netbackup-policy-monitor-script

If I were to come across a policy that changed I would first wonder who has access to the GUI's.....

If I had a policy that was giving me problems I would delete it and rebuild one. That seems to fix a lot of policy/schedule related problems.

[Marianne]

Expired demo license key?

Check on master with '/usr/openv/netbackup/admincmd/get_license_key'

[ajiwww · Accepted solution]

somone was using "bpplinfo -set $POLICIES" in a script to generate some reports, instead of bpplinfo -modify by mistake. NBPEM have nothing to do with that

[Will_Restore]

for viewing policy information don't use -set or -modify

[Marianne]

" ..  instead of bpplinfo -modify  "???

NOT even that! bppllist is for viewing.