A server I support is on solaris. 
There I use a ksh script to watch sessions that would not be hard to convert
to perl or even a batch file using nsradmin with an input file.
Its gives me a quick glance at whats running and I often use to track clone
sessions.

The simple version is 

#!/bin/ksh
( /usr/sbin/nsradmin -s bupserver -i - << EOW
show session
print type:nsr
EOW
) 2>&1|while read line
do
   echo $line
done

The while read line loop concatenates lines ending in \ with following line


The growing version follows. The code is not pretty as its really only for
my purposes.
Switches are  
-c counts sessions (or more particularly lines which is slightly wrong due
to double ups on cloning/staging)
-p pg's the list.
-s ask for a string to grep ( for use in menus to be provided to other
users)
-v greps out strings using greps -v 
<string> - greps for strings via any string on the command line (e.g. clon
for cloning)

#!/bin/ksh
function getastring {
   astring=""
   /usr/bin/echo  "$1 > \c"
   read astring
}
page=cat
grepswitch=
search=yes
while getopts cspv option
do
     case $option in
     p)      page=pg;;
     c)      page="wc -l";;
     s)      search=;;
     v)      grepswitch="-v";;
     ?)     printf "Usage: %s: [-p] [-c] [-v] [-s][search string] \n"  $0
            exit 2;;
     esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

grepstring="cat"
[[ -n $1 ]] && grepstring="grep -i $grepswitch $*"
[[ -z $search ]] && [[ -z $1 ]] && \
   getastring "Enter a grep string, use -v <string> to exclude, leave blank
for all sessions"\
     && [[ -n $astring ]] && grepstring="grep -i $astring"
count=0
echo " +++++++++++++ listing sessions
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
( /usr/sbin/nsradmin -s bupserver -i - << EOW
show session
print type:nsr
EOW
) 2>&1|while read line
do
   let count=$count+1
   echo $line
done |$grepstring|$page

Regards
Kit


Kit Cunningham
www.krisanya.com.au
IDATATools for NetWorker

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Davis [mailto:davism AT UWO DOT CA] 
Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: Networker 7.4.4 - monitoring clone sessions

Len Philpot wrote:
>> Mark Davis 
>>
>> When running nsrclone on a list of savesets, and viewing the 
>> Monitoring/Sessions tab, and with "Show: Clone Sessions", there is no 
>> dynamic update showing the progress of the job. It simply shows the 
>> total amount to be cloned and then does not update. When the job is 
>> complete, the session disappears.
>>
>> If I run nsrwatch, I do see the dynamic update of the job:
>>
>> cloning session:19 of 59 save set(s) reading from VT600029 31 GB of 82 
> GB
>>   servername:cloning session saving to pool 'vtl3clone' (VT600036)
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround?
> 
> If you can generate (or already know) a list of the ssids that are being 
> cloned, you can run mminfo against that list and watch the "copies" field.

> Those with only one copy are not yet cloned. The totalsize (or sumsize) 
> field will also give you a rough idea of the relative time to clone them 
> based on their size.
> 
> I realize that's not a whole lot, but it's more than nwadmin/nsrwatch will

> tell you.  :-)

Actually, I was happy with the display in nwadmin (version 7.2.2). 
nwadmin or nsrwatch at least provided a reasonable estimate of progress. 
With the new 7.4 Administration GUI, I have no idea how far the job has 
progressed. Your suggestion is a good one, but I was hoping to see a 
better presentation in the GUI.

I have noticed that if I run nsrstage on savesets, the sessions window 
does update dynamically. I should have mentioned that in my original post.

Thanks,

Mark
-- 
Mark Davis
NetWorker Support - I.T.S
University of Western Ontario
519-661-2111 x85504
email: davism AT uwo DOT ca

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