01-21-2015 02:31 AM
Hi
I've been searchign around for information on a web services API into OpsCenter, but so far have drawn a blank. Is there a web services API that can be used to integrate into other applications? If so can you point towards further information.
Thanks.
Nick.
01-21-2015 03:44 AM
No there is no Web services API. You can connect to the database through ODBC or you can use SNMP traps to a monitoring system but other than that it is pretty self contained.
01-21-2015 03:50 AM
However one may assume that there is because of this product:
http://www.biomni.com/solutions/for-symantec/
Now it may integrate closer than REST or SOAP but since there is a product that can create a self service portal one would think there at least is a hidden API.
01-21-2015 03:51 AM
What exactly do you mean with "integrate into other applications"?
01-21-2015 06:28 AM
Hi
Thanks for the link, thats useful to know.
Would be useful if I could find an API into either the NBU Master or OpsCenter.
Nick.
01-21-2015 06:31 AM
Hi
Specifically I want to be able to perform some actions like collected detailed job information or re-run failed jobs based on events coming into an event management system.
WebServices can be consumed by orchestration tools to automate some procedures.
Regards.
Nick.
01-21-2015 09:34 AM
Hi,
I dont think there is any such service avaiable. On the other hand, NetBackup has built in features that rerun backups that failed. If the errors are transient then the rerun would work, if they're not, then you really need and admin to be looking at what the issue is. Having some third party app rerun it wont achieve much.
There used to be SCOM packs for opscenter, not sure if they're still available. But that was only for event reporting.
01-22-2015 12:13 AM
That may be so, but the automation is also to initiate things like incident management etc, which I don't think can be done directly from Netbackup either. Re-running a backup job is only one of several posibilities for a failed job; collecting diagnostics for analysis and placing into an automatically opened incident directly from an event management system would add a lot of efficiency to the process.
01-22-2015 01:08 AM
I get your point. I checked but don't see the SCOM stuff on the 7.6 installation media sets.
01-22-2015 04:30 AM
Found the SCOM pack http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH139344
01-22-2015 05:53 AM
That pack is for forwarding SNMP traps like I pointed out earlier. This only allows alerting but no automated process to send back to Ops Center for issue resolution.
03-04-2020 08:17 AM
NetBackup can be intergrated with Service Now to do the incident Management. Also at ServiceNow level you can do event co-relation to avoid generating multiple events of same client or Policy.
02-11-2022 07:32 AM
Is there any documentation or reference material for integrating with ServiceNow Event Management that you can point me to?