Ken:

Drive utilization is an easy one.   I might do that next.*

Throughput statistics per drive are easy on Solaris (iostat -xnM) but much 
tougher on other systems since
NetBackup doesn't track this data.  Does anybody know if there are ways to 
get this data on Windows?

Throughput per job is an easy calculation to make, but you end up with an 
average over the entire run of
the job, not the peaks and valleys over time.  RRD TOOL has ways of working 
around this, but the database
would have to be populated at every step interval to track the growth of 
the kbytes counter in the job record.
(This would probably necessitate running bpdbjobs too frequently.)  Right 
now, I can update on 5 minute intervals
going back 48 hours, but only having to run bpdbjobs once.  My logging 
script is very efficient and not tied to
the time interval it graphs.

Average throughput per job is a great one to add to a gannt chart that 
shows the time period for which the
job ran.  I like this thought a lot (a colored line for each jobid and the 
average throughput as a subscript.)
RRD TOOL isn't the right graphing tool for this one, but there are other 
graphing modules out there.*

The wheels are really turning now..... there are some interesting 
directions we could go in terms of "backup visualization."

--PLB


At 03:38 PM 02/05/2002 -0600, SIBLEY, Ken R. - ACCOREL wrote:
>I would be very interested to see (in order of priority):
>Drive Utilization over time (very big)
>Throughput Statistics (per drive and per client/class)
>Job Statistics
>Number of available/up/down drives
>Client/Class active over time
>
>I think these would be great.
>
>Ken
>
>Ken Sibley
>Sr. Unix Administrator
>Accor Economy Lodging
>ksibley AT accorel DOT com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter L. Buschman [mailto:plb AT iotk DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:34 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Graphing NetBackup Statistics with RRD
> > TOOL (what
> > to graph?)
> >
> >
> >
> > All:
> >
> > I've recently been experimenting with using RRD TOOL for
> > storing NetBackup
> > statistics.
> > I finally got my first pair of jobs stats loggers and
> > graphers working
> > tonight.  You can see
> > the results here (although it isn't very impressive given my
> > small system
> > at home.)
> >
> >          http://www.iotk.com/nbux/rrd/jobstats.gif
> >
> > I think this type of time-series data tracking could be a valuable
> > operational resource for
> > backup administrators.  In that regard, I'd like to poll the
> > list and ask
> > what statistics would
> > you like to see tracked over time?
> >
> > The ones that come to my mind are:
> >
> >          + Job Statistics (extending my first example to
> > include per-error
> > tracking.)
> >          + Throughput Statistics (how much data am I backing
> > up over time?)
> >          + Media Statistics (how many full / expired / frozen
> > / suspended,
> > etc, tapes in my media database.)
> >          + Size of catalogs.
> >          + Number of available / up / down drives.
> >          + Drive utilization over time.
> >
> > ...and much, much more.  If you can quantify a variable at a
> > point in time,
> > it can be stored in an RRD and graphed.
> >
> > If you've ever seen NetBackup Advanced Reporter, you have an
> > idea of the
> > data that can be collected and
> > processed.  NBAR is an expensive option, however, and not all that
> > customizable.  I'd like to add to the tools
> > available at no cost to the user community.
> >
> > I'd be very interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this.
> > How useful
> > would you find this kind of extension
> > to the base NetBackup functionality?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > --PLB
> >
> >
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