Steve
Checkout Aptare www.aptare.com - They provide the exact tape ID's and
the library and slot numbers they are in if they are in the library.
They have an interface for doing restores. You can even display file
level detail on the tapes.
Monte
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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Steve Quan
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:29 PM
To: King, Cheryl
Cc: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
Can any of these tools monitor for restore tape mounts, *AND*
display a list of any additional tapes (with it's Volume
Group if it's not in the library) required ?
/Steve
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, King, Cheryl wrote:
> That's what OpenView Operations (OVO) does. You run an agent on the
> NetBackup system to monitor all the log files and the
/var/adm/messages.
> You can monitor processes and lots of other things. You can also use
> the custom scripts you already have and just use opcmsg to send
messages
> to the OpenView agent. There is also a Smart Plug in (SPI) for
> NetBackup- I'm not sure what that includes but I believe it's free;
> downloadable from the HP OpenView website.
>
>
>
> You can add commands to the Application bank in OpenView to allow the
> NOC to do Veritas commands. And/Or you can add commands as automatic
> actions to certain messages like tape drive going DOWN.
>
>
>
> Brian,
>
>
>
> Do you use Message Keys? They can easily be used for message
> correlation at no extra cost, instead of ECS. ECS is only needed for
> complex correlation.
>
>
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
> Greg
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:42 PM
> To: briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
>
>
> We have open view now. But there is no way of tying in open view to
> netbackup to up drives or restart jobs is there? How can netbackup
send
> data to open view for things such as what backups failed, drives or
> robots that are down etc. without having to have some script running
on
> the master and sending trap to open view, right? Am I missing
something?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com
> [mailto:briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:38 PM
> To: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
> I primarily use HP OpenView for Operations (OVO). It would be
> nice to also get ECS (Event Correlation Services) with it, but that's
an
> extra cost.
>
>
>
> We also use autosys to schedule the running of some scripts that
> will send information to syslog, which OVO will then detect, assess,
and
> possibly notify.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
> Greg
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:14 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
> Solaris 9 nb5.1 mp4
>
> Does anyone use external monitoring tools for netbackup? We
> have many custom scripts created to perform some monitoring tasks but
I
> have been tasked with looking for something that can automate allot of
> the monitoring without having to write a customer script for
everything.
> Management also wants our NOC people to take over some of the
monitoring
> for us to allow us to get to the real work instead of worry about
upping
> drives or restarting failed jobs. Any ideas?
>
>
> Greg
>
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