Fellow NetBackup users, administrators, and Perl hackers:

NBUX 0.5 has escaped from the zoo and is available now at:

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbux/

New features since version 0.4 include:

+ Defaults may now be overridden via the nbux.conf file.
+ Command profiles may be created to re-define where NBUX gets command input.
+ NBUX Remote Agent service, "nbuxd", and "nbuxremote" command for remote 
NetBackup
    monitoring and reporting without the need for GDM (tested on both Unix 
and NT.)

NOTE: The nbuxd agent is included as a suitable means of remote access 
where no other means
are available.  Sites that have standardized on SSH may wish to define a 
command profile to use
that instead.  NBUX intends to be flexible in this regard so it may fit 
into site security schemes.

Bugfixes since version 0.4 include:

- Parsing bugfix to bpdbjobs where output includes escaped-commas 
(backported to 0.4)
- Bugfixes related to identifying the NetBackup install directory on Windows.
- Significant bugfixes to the vmquery() and vmpool() functions.

Enhancements that are on the roadmap, but did not make this release include:
(kinda obvious where all this is going, though, isn't it?)

+ Schemas and scripts for populating SQL databases with NetBackup data in 
the same fashion as
    NetBackup Advanced Reporter.

+ Front-ends and reporting samples built on top of a database back-end.

I'm very excited about the possibilities this release offers for building 
true enterprise management
and reporting functionality around NetBackup.  With remote accessibility 
comes the ability to get
a handle on distributed servers and backup domains as well as do some truly 
interesting stuff with
the data that is collected.

--PLB