Todd:

I am beginning just such a beast using Tobias Oetiker's RRDTOOL for 
statistical databases
and graph generation (if you've seen MRTG before, this is the graphing 
engine it uses.)

There are a wide variety of datapoints I want to plot, but first I need to 
polish off the perl engine
that parses them out of NetBackup.  I'm trying to get a release of the base 
module finished by
the end of the week before I start on the RRD piece.  If you're interested 
in the details, please
contact me separately.

The overall roadmap looks basically like this:

(Perl Module Interface to NetBackup) -> (Logging into RRDTool) -> (Pretty 
Web Interface using EmbPerl)

PHP is probably also a possibility, but embedded perl provides the same 
kind of functionality along with
retaining the ability to hook into the lower-level module.

The whole thing will run under Apache with mod_perl (both on Unix and NT) 
and should be pretty speedy
except for the delay imposed by the slow NBU commands that are invoked 
(bpdbjobs can be slower than
molasses in January with a large jobs database.)

Cheers!

--PLB

At 12:14 PM 01/23/2002 -0800, Todd Suiter wrote:
>On a simililar note: does anyone know of a good way to get
>NBU 3.4 to do pretty graphs/output for machines and amount of data
>backed up, per job, over a monthly basis? We've got something here
>that is written in java servlets, that is total overkill and
>hard to manage. I'd like to re-write it in php, but if something
>is already there....thanks...t
>
>On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote:
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> >
> > Has anyone created any or know of any cgi's for interfacing with the
> > commandline programs for NBU ?
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> > I was thinking this would be usefull for an operator who I need to only be
> > able to load/unload tapes from the cap.
> >
> > Does such a beast exist or am I gonna have to roll my own ?
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