I have several scripts for daily monitoring that either call the installed
instance of blat directly or reuse the nbmail.cmd script.
1. A daily status report which details any backups which ended in an error
status, any that are still running at the time of the report, any that are
still running from the previous day, and any that were expected to run, but
have not.
2. A daily report of how many tapes are available in my scratch pool.
3. Status reports for several backup scripts which coordinate to shut down
services and databases and perform some cleanup tasks, then fire backups, then
monitor for all the relevant backup streams to complete before rebooting
servers or restarting services and databases. The status reports tell me when
these processes start, when the end of all the streams are detected, and when
all of the restarts are completed.
I like scripting, so I've likely called this other places I am forgetting.
Also, I have scripted batch files for windows for a long time, and consider
blat a very normal tool to have in such processes. While an SMTP client is a
fairly simple thing, if I need one from a batch file BLAT is my first choice.
(CDO form VBScript or PowerShell, and unfortunately I don't write Perl, so I
can't say.) If anyone with a copy of Tim Hill's, "Windows NT Shell Scripting,"
on their shelf is complaining about blat's use, I'd consider the complaint, but
outside of that I wouldn't give it much thought.
Blat's license affirms that it can be redistributed or even sold. Of course it
then confuses this by acknowledging that parts of the source come from other
sources, indicating it may be otherwise encumbered. In any event, I'd have the
lawyers consider whether it can be redistributed with your product before
writing your own SMTP client.
Patrick Sweeney
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patrick.sweeney AT axcelis DOT com
I.T. Systems/Networks
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of tim
burlowski
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:47 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup & Blat
We have heard from customers that they would like us to remove our
requirement that you install a third party tool like blat in order to
have NetBackup send mail on Windows.
In fact this improvement is the third most popular idea for NetBackup
on our Ideas portal,
http://www.symantec.com/connect/idea/mail-notification .
So we're looking at it and I have a question. The nbmail.cmd script is
used by NetBackup processes to send mail from NetBackup. Do you use
nbmail.cmd from other scripts you have written for backup & recovery
operations? What do these scripts do?
You can reply to the list or if you prefer feel free to email me directly.
Thanks for your feedback. If you have more ideas for improvements to
NetBackup be sure and add them to the Ideas portal
http://www.symantec.com/connect/ideas
--
tim burlowski
Product Manager
Symantec
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