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tythecellist · 05-07-2018

I have poured through Veritas' documentation on the process for making calls to NBU 8.1.1 using its RESTful API. But I'm unclear on something and I've hit a stumbling block. Is there a way to initiate a login without using a JWT (JSON Web Token) ini...

tythecellist · 03-20-2018

I'm running a bpplclients command to remove clientname from a given policy. The command exits successfully (i.e. status 0).bppllist -l -byclient clientname | grep ^CLASS | awk {'print $2'}`; do /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplclients PTC_NIX_B...

tythecellist · 01-18-2018

Hello, friends. I've reviewed Veritas' and EMC's documentation but not found the answer (yet) to this question, so I'm posting it here.I want to validate that EMC VNX NAS datamover configuration for enabling "scsiReserve" is compatible with my media...

tythecellist · 11-19-2017

Anybody know if it's possible to change the layout/format of the SNMP alerts that OCA sends out for (example) "backup finalized" alerting ? I'd like, for example, to have Zenoss (my SNMP listener) create events based on a backup client hostname an...

tythecellist · 10-09-2017

Wondering if other NBU shops have successfully tackled the issue of how to automate the addition/removal of hosts to/from NBU policies (Windows, Linux, NDMP, etc.) I can come up with numerous examples using bpplclient, but if someone has integrated ...

tythecellist · 05-08-2018

Thanks Mike! yep, confirmed this with Support after posting this thread. All good at this point.

tythecellist · 03-20-2018

UPDATE: turns out that bpplclients returns a status code 0 even if the client name passed to it is incorrectly capitalized, which was the case here (i.e. I'd passed my clientname as CLIENTNAME, but /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class/PTC_NIX_BACKUP011_VER...

tythecellist · 10-10-2017

Excellent, thank you Ram! Exactly what I was hoping to hear. Although I don't think NBU SS is necessarily a good fit for our multi-tenant environment (particularly NAS/NDMP restores) I'm glad to know you're finding it useful. I'll give Puppet a c...

tythecellist · 09-02-2017

This topic is now resolved. a) BATCHSIZE needed to be put as the first line in my DBAs' batch scriptb) NBU 7.5.0.6 (client) doesn't talk to 7.7.3 (server) well from a SQL agent perspective for things such as BATCHSIZE. c) Upgrading the client (7.5.0....

tythecellist · 08-24-2017

Thank you both for your replies; I've changed the .bch file.Analyzing the parent job's detailed logs, I'm seeing something I can't explain: a 10-second delay between databases' backups being initiated from SQL:08/24/2017 17:32:04 - Info dbclient (pi...

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Calling NBU 8.1.1's RESTful API

bpplclients -delete exits with status 0, then bppllist still shows membership

EMC VNX NAS and NetBackup 7.7.x SCSI reserve configuration

OpsCenter Analytics SNMP alert format changes?

automation of host adds/removes in NBU policies

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