[Veritas-bu] activity monitor display history

With 4.5 fp5, this script will help prevent expired images from hanging
around forever, and as a side effect keep your catalog from growing out of
control.  You will need this script, or something like it as the programmers
(who are obviously more intelligent than I) decided it wasn't necessary for
the application to clean up it's own lock file.

(Linewrap is going to kill us here...)

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# Script:  cleanup_images.ksh
#
# Purpose:  This script will force NetBackup to expire images, rather than
waiting
#
if [[ -f /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanup.lock ]] 
then
        ls -al /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanup.lock
>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log
        print "`date` - Found /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanup.lock -
checking for active PID!" >>/tmp/cleanup_images.log
        PID=`cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanup.lock | cut -f2 -d' '`
        PROC=`ptree $PID`

        if [ "X$PROC" == "X" ]
        then
          print "Lock file found, but no active job at $PID."
>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 
          print "Removing lock file for process: $PROC."
>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 
          rm /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanup.lock
1>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 2>&1
          /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients
1>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 2>&1
          print "Launching bpimage." >>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 
        else
          print "Lock file found, job $PID still active, bailing!"
>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 
          ptree $PID 1>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 2>&1
          
        fi
        
else
        print "No lock file found, launching bpimage."
>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 
        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients
1>>/tmp/cleanup_images.log 2>&1 
fi



The length of time that jobs are kept in history is configurable in the
bp.conf for the (master) server as

KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS
And
KEEP_JOBS_HOURS



-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Coco, 
Samuel
(Cont, ARL/CISD)
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:30 AM
To: Kohli, Vidit; Dan Dobbs; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] activity monitor display history

Vidit,

  We are currently using 4.5 FP3 & FP6 at two separate locations.  Our
BD has been growing and shrinking in accordance with our images
expiring.  If you DB isn't purging - I would suggest a review of the
settings.

Thank you,
 
 
Samuel J. Coco

-----Original Message-----
From: Kohli, Vidit [mailto:vidit.kohli AT csfb DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:27 PM
To: 'Dan Dobbs'; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] activity monitor display history


This is known issue with veritas

the activity mointer bug is not yet fixed in 4.5 FP5,

you will see some tech notes on bp.conf settings they won't help at all


if you want know more bugs in 4.5 netbackup
 1) -- in 4.5 the images won't expire in catalog DB, just notice the
rapid catalog growth carefully and judge your self

2) -- during restores inspite the date range is defined for a client,
still it will uncompress all the images from begining date of that
client. which can consume lot of disk space

3) -- worse is the java GUI of device moniter, some time in between tape
drives display will dis-apppear , inspite backups are still running

4 )-- NDMP backups always give 84 errors in between and veritas don't
have any solution.


in nut shell veritas need to wake up and fix the issues soon, 
only God know who are writting source codes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

best of luck


--  
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Dobbs [mailto:DDobbs AT mutualmaterials DOT com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:11 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] activity monitor display history


Greetings, list.

How does one adjust the list of 'successful' jobs shown in the Activity
Monitor GUI? Currently, my display shows unsuccessful jobs that are over
two weeks old, but the successful ones only go back 6 days or so. 

If it's an RTFM, pls give me a page number. :>)

Thanks!

-dd
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