Need to track the changes in netbackups

[fitrat]

Hi All
We have a team of 8 members
We need to track all the changes in netbackup environment specially backup policy configuration
Please suggest me how can we track the changes like below

1. who has modified the backup policies / schedule / backup selection / attributes / bp.conf
2. what has been modified in the backup policies / schedule / backup selection / attributes / bp.conf
     Old vaule & new vaule
3. When changes are done
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Please suggest


Thanks in advance
FitRat

[Baski]

Hi,

This is Best question. Even our team 20 members are there . It is very difficult to trace who done what. I think , some audit files are there on unix ( Java log files) exact name i don't know.  Expacted somebody reply on this.

[Nicolai]

Netbackup doesn't have a complete audit function (But I wish one too) . A limited  policy audit function exist however.

How to monitor when a NetBackup policy is deleted, or when a schedule or client is deleted from a p....

[Mike_Gavrilov]

Nicolai right. This is only one solution from Symantec. But you have unlimited tools form your OS to audit all commands and users.

[J_H_Is_gone]

This has been asked before and nobody has a good answer.
NOM can tell you when a policy was change and what was changed but not who changed it.
You can make NOM email this out to a group of people whenever it happens.

And then whomever did the change would be required to go in and put in a comment - now this means that you have to trust them to put in the comment - but you can see that it tells you what part of the policy was changed - in this example it was the schedules.
This is also kept in the NOM logs for as long as you set it up for - in my case I can got back 1 year to look at these alerts.

Details for Alert ''Policy: Testing Changed ''   Alert ID: 296   Summary : Policy: Testing Changed   Description : Date: May 27, 2009 11:15 AM Changed Policy Name: Testing Master Server: MyMaster  Policy Attributes Modified  Schedules     Severity : Informational    Status : Active    Host : MYmaster   Raised On : May 27, 2009 11:15 AM   Assignment State : Unassigned   Assigned To :     Updated By :     Updated On : May 27, 2009 11:15 AM     Comments  Comment   Creation Time   Created By

[fitrat]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions