NetBackup health check

[Alex_Zn]

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.

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

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]

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]

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