Report of Disabled Clients

[thesanman]

After an incident where a client had been disabled but no one noticed, I need to produce a report through OpsCenter that lists all currently disabled NetBackup clients (v7.x new feature).

I was hoping there would be a canned report already but it doesn't seem so.

Anyone done this already?

Thanks.

[Dangerous_Dan]

Hi

Yeah I suggested this back in November:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/idea/opscenter-report-suggestion

This doesn't sound difficult to produce as currenttly its not easy to identify current offline clients.

[thesanman]

I worked out a very quick and dirty way on my RHEL media server;

It seems a number of files get created/modified under /usr/openv/netbackup/db/client/*/ called OA_*

It appears as if this file is used to flag online and offline clients.  If it's OA_0 the client is enabled; if it's OA_unix-time value then it's disabled.

I wrote a very quick and dirty script which I can call from crontab.  Seems to work for me; use as you see fit.  Of course; completely unsupported.

#!/bin/sh
#       E-mail a quick report of Disabled Clients
#

TMPFILE="/tmp/nbu-disabled.tmp"
EMAIL=someonewhocares@domain.whevever

if [ -s $TMPFILE ]
then
        /bin/rm -rf $TMPFILE
fi

if [ `find /usr/openv/netbackup/db/client/*/OA_* | grep -vi "OA_0" | tee $TMPFILE | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then
        more $TMPFILE | cut -d/ -f7 | mail $EMAIL -s "NBU Disabled Clients"
fi

exit 0