restarting nbpem

[DanHaskell]

We're running a somewhat ancient version of netbackup and nbpem occasionally dies. From what I see in the forums that's a known issue. What I would like to have would be a command line way of restarting *just* the nbpem daemon. I know it can be done from the GUI, but doing that remotely is VERY painful.

At 4am this morning I ran /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup stop and /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/netbackup start - which restarted the daemon, but also killed backup jobs making me persona-non-grata at work. I need a way to just restart nbpem.

TIA,
Dan

[Marianne]

nbpemreq -terminate | -resume

Any particular reason why you don't want to patch or upgrade?

[DanHaskell]

Thank you VERY much! I've googled all over hades, and not found that answer.

We are going to upgrade, it's just happening very slowly. It's political.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

"undocumented options" explained in this TN: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278938.htm

[DanHaskell]

Oops. Sorry, I spoke too soon.

Per a coworker: "I tested on a server…it definitely stops/terminates nbpem, but it does not resume or restart it!"

He was able to restart nbpem using the GUI. Looking at this page, I'm thinking that "-resume" is the flip-side of "-suspend_scheduling".

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278938.htm

Is it kosher to just invoke the nbpem executable directly? That's what the init script appears to do:

    if [ -x ${NBPATH}/nbpem ] ; then
        ${NBPATH}/nbpem
        echo "NetBackup Policy Execution Manager started."
    else
        RETURN=2
        echo "NetBackup Policy Execution Manager not started."
    fi

Dan